Growing Health - bio-inspired solutions for healthier agroecosystems: Understanding biointeractions

Description	"Things I Should Know" Seminar Series
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Since its inception, the Things I Should Know (TISK) seminar series has engaged over one thousand attendees, equipping early-career researchers with essential skills for navigating academia and research careers more effectively. Attendees have consistently reported improved confidence and ability in key areas such as scientific communication, experimental planning, publishing, and career development. Beyond skill development, TISK has had a profound impact on inclusivity and career progression, particularly for women and those who may not feel naturally confident or assertive in academic spaces. As one attendee expressed: "One of the hardest to quantify but perhaps most profound benefits from TISK is the impact on the progression of women in the ECR community... The seminars, although not presumably expressly designed with that in mind, are probably doing a lot in terms of helping those who don't feel so confident/assertive/knowledgeable-giving people a safe space to grow. TISK is providing us with the environment to learn these things and ask questions, helping people overcome barriers." Attendees have expressed appreciation for the accessible and interactive format, with one stating: "I liked that you stopped it to enable people to talk more freely. I thought that was a really nice touch to make it a safer space." The credit-bearing nature of the series underscores its formal recognition as valuable professional training. It has been highlighted as part of Rothamsted's Culture Statement. Moreover, having shared TISK at Research Development Conferences and other Society-organised events, TISK's impact extends beyond Rothamsted, influencing institutional researcher development initiatives elsewhere. One participant at the Vitae Researcher Development conference noted: "We will definitely be bearing your insights in mind when planning researcher development events for this cycle-there were so many gems of wisdom in what you said and shared." Furthermore, TISK provides an important model of peer-led support and representation, demonstrating the value of shared experiences in academic progression. As another attendee reflected: "There is a significant benefit from having some within-group support from someone who's got through and survived/thrived. The age-old 'representation matters' really is true!" By fostering a supportive, skill-building community, TISK is not only enhancing research practice but also actively shaping the culture of academia-making it more accessible, inclusive, and effective for future generations.
URL	https://engage.cloud.microsoft/main/org/rothamsted.ac.uk/groups/eyJfdHlwZSI6Ikdyb3VwIiwiaWQiOiIxNzE1...

Description	Began three-year term on Science Advisory Board of RESAS (Rural & Environmental Science and Analytical Services), for the Scottish Government
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Beginning of the 3 year term.

Description	British Mycological Society
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers

Description	ARABLE: Field evaluation of synthetic blends of semiochemicals for monitoring and control of wireworms
Amount	£44,975 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/X011909/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2023
End	11/2023

Description	ARABLE: Monitoring for emerging threats to UK OSR crops posed by novel variants and fungicide resistant strains of fungal pathogens
Amount	£49,400 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/X011917/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2023
End	06/2023

Description	BBSRC IAA - Development of a third-generation sequencing platform for monitoring resistance evolution in economically important pathogen and weed populations
Amount	£20,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2024
End	03/2025

Description	BBSRC IAA - Next generation tools for management of forest pests
Amount	£20,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	11/2024

Description	BBSRC IAA - Optimising a field attractant for wireworms
Amount	£20,500 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2024
End	11/2024

Description	BBSRC IAA - Protecting wheat leaves against Septoria
Amount	£13,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2024
End	11/2024

Description	BBSRC IAA - Regenerating crop pest management one gel at a time
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2024
End	11/2024

Description	BBSRC IAA - Station Seminars for ECR Development
Amount	£6,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2024
End	02/2025

Description	BBSRC IGP - Renewal of Chemical Ecology Electrophysiology Instrumentation
Amount	£336,307 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2024
End	03/2025

Description	BBSRC IIP - Does the diversity of endosymbionts assist in niche and environmental adaptation of Fall Armyworm across International Borders?
Amount	£25,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	11/2024

Description	BBSRC Innovation Grant
Amount	£3,824 (GBP)
Funding ID	PheroSyn 2024
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	BBSRC Innovation Grant Bio Nano Consulting 2024
Amount	£21,743 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	BBSRC Innovation Grant PheroSyn 2023
Amount	£20,580 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	BBSRC KEC Uplift Grant Testing Novel Chemical Ecology-Inspired Interventions
Amount	£50,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2025
End	08/2025

Description	BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary - Exploring Impact of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Strains on Wheat Volatile Chemical Profiles and Aphid Behaviour.
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The British Society of Plant Pathology
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2024
End	08/2024

Description	BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary - Investigating mechanisms underlying asexual and sexual reproduction in the wheat fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, the causative agent of Septoria tritici blotch disease
Amount	£3,800 (GBP)
Organisation	The British Society of Plant Pathology
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2024
End	09/2024

Description	Bactobio - High-throughput discovery of natural product fungicides targeting Phytophthora infestans
Amount	£20,123 (GBP)
Organisation	Crop Health and Protection
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2023
End	12/2023

Description	Consultancy work on fungicide applications vs Septoria
Amount	£3,700 (GBP)
Organisation	Croda Europe Ltd
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2025
End	03/2025

Description	Exploiting the chemical genomics of Pseudomonas spp. for natural product antifungals effective against fungal pathogens of wheat (Shakirova).
Amount	£130,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2024
End	10/2028

Description	Fungicide testing programme
Amount	£3,712 (GBP)
Organisation	Plant Impact
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start

Description	Future Agri-Food Systems: One crop health for next generation crop protection
Amount	60,000,000 kr. (DKK)
Organisation	Novo Nordisk Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	Denmark
Start	01/2024
End	12/2029

Description	Guidance on measuring soil organic carbon to the implementation partners running Unilever's regenerative agriculture projects
Amount	£45,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	N/A
Organisation	Unilever
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2023
End	03/2024

Description	International Exchanges 2024 Global Round 2 - Multitrophic interactions of two economically important maize pests
Amount	£11,930 (GBP)
Funding ID	IES\R2\242096
Organisation	The Royal Society
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2024
End	12/2026

Description	Investigating fungal spore dispersal in UK arable crop systems under current and future environmental conditions
Amount	£61,760 (GBP)
Organisation	Perry Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2023
End	10/2027

Description	NatCropProtect
Amount	£13,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2024
End	04/2025

Description	RRes-Brazil partnership for protecting crops against bacterial / viral plant diseases and associated vectors
Amount	£10,914 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	05/2024

Description	RSC studentship - Hydrogel investigation
Amount	£2,680 (GBP)
Organisation	Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2024
End	08/2024

Description	RSC studentship - Phytochemical Screening of Aphid Resistant Wheat
Amount	£3,520 (GBP)
Organisation	Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2024
End	08/2025

Description	RSC studentship - Using a VOC analyser to characterise BYDV (multi-strain) infected wheat plants
Amount	£3,520 (GBP)
Organisation	Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2023
End	08/2023

Description	Royal Society of Chemistry Researcher Collaborations Grant - Investigating the influence of Spodoptera frugiperda sex pheromones on maize plant VOC emission profiles and subsequent ecological interactions
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	C23-5207409109
Organisation	Royal Society of Chemistry
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2024
End	11/2024

Description	Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2024
Amount	£14,240 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2024
End	05/2024

Description	The electrostatic basis of insect olfaction
Amount	£125,936 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/Y512886/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2024
End	03/2025

Description	UK Food Systems CDT
Amount	£20,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Greenwich
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2023
End	10/2027

Description	Wheat Genetic Improvement Network Phase 5 C24770
Amount	£3,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	C24770
Organisation	Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2024
End	06/2029

Title	Fungal conditional promoter expression system
Description	New promoter useful for testing for essential for life genes
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	Invention Disclosure form completed and preliminary conversations with potential Industry users

Title	PHI-Canto: Annotating a gene-for-gene interaction
Description	PHI-Canto: Annotating a gene-for-gene interaction. This is a specific type of host-pathogen interaction that determines the overall outcome of the interaction namely the resistance or susceptibility of the host and the ability of the pathogen to cause disease or not.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The authors of a relevant peer reviewed publication can curate their complicated data sets directly into the PHI-base database using the PHI-Canto tool.
URL	https://youtu.be/_og3umfy4WU

Title	PHI-Canto: Annotating an inverse gene-for-gene interaction
Description	PHI-Canto: Annotating an inverse gene-for-gene interaction into the PHI-base database. https://youtu.be/KKhomX11TMs
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The authors of a relevant peer reviewed publication can curate their complicated data sets directly into the PHI-base database using the PHI-Canto tool. The are genetically the rarer interaction types compared to gene-for-gene interaction types.
URL	https://youtu.be/KKhomX11TMs

Title	PHI-Canto: Why should I contribute?
Description	PHI-Canto: the personal and professional benefits to authors of contributing a peer reviewed article using this community curation tool https://youtu.be/QQGZBnUYZcA
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Soon after publication, more authors will spend the time curating their research articles via PHI-Canto into the PHI-base database
URL	https://youtu.be/QQGZBnUYZcA

Title	Protocol to replicate waterlogging in greenhouse
Description	Optimised a protocol to impose waterlogging stress early in development for wheat cultivars and weed biotypes
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Waterlogging stress is difficult to impose and difficult to control in the field, so having a glasshouse based method allows for additional replicability and reproducibility.

Title	The Pathogen-Host Interactions Database (PHI-base)
Description	This is described in the Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHI-base
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	PHI-base makes two data releases per annum in May and November. In the reporting period the following has occurred The latest release of PHI-base, version 4.15, was on 2 May 2023 (http://www.phi-base.org/releaseNote.htm). Compared to version 4.14, released on 1 November 2022, the increase in data is: 384 genes, 1,069 interactions, 237 publications, 2 new pathogens, and 2 new hosts. The number of diseases was reduced by one, due to data cleaning efforts removing redundant and incorrect disease names. We continue to freely share phenotyping data with Ensembl ( since 2011), FungiDB (since 2019) and UniProtKB (since 2020). UK and international resource usage trends: PHI-base > 25,800 and > 1007 full database downloads, > 6,000 unique users and > 400 registered API users. Total users > 119,700 during the reporting period April 2023-March 2024.
URL	http://www.phi-base.org/

Title	Video - PHI-Canto: Choosing a suitable publication
Description	PHI-Canto: Choosing a suitable publication https://youtu.be/J6z4MlU8Bkc
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	How to select an in scope publication for author curation using the community curation tool - PHI-Canto
URL	https://youtu.be/J6z4MlU8Bkc

Title	Video - PHI-Canto: Introduction to PHI-base
Description	https://youtu.be/5GlKRM9qshk
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Improved understanding of what PHI-base is about for first time users of the database
URL	https://youtu.be/5GlKRM9qshk

Title	Zymoseptoria IPO323 genome re-annotation
Description	New improved community annotation publicly available
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Improved research tool for global community
URL	https://mycocosm.jgi.doe.gov/Zymtr1/Zymtr1.home.html

Title	Alopecurus myosuroides Genome sequencing and assembly
Description	The authors presented a high-quality reference genome of blackgrass. They analyzed genome structure and function to infer genomic features that may predispose blackgrass to the rapid evolution of weediness.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Alopecurus myosuroides (blackgrass) is a widespread and impactful weed affecting agriculture in Europe. Through the blackgrass genome has been possible to reveal patterns of non-parallel avolution of polygenic herbicide resistance [10.1111/nph.18655]. This genome dataset has an Accession PRJNA889547
URL	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA889547

Title	Aphid endosymbiont genomic datasets
Description	Genome sequencing results of aphid endosymbionts
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Aphid endosymbiont population dynamics

Title	Chromosome-scale genome assembly and de novo annotation of Alopecurus aequalis.
Description	Alopecurus aequalis is a winter annual or short-lived perennial bunchgrass which has in recent years emerged as the dominant agricultural weed of barley and wheat in certain regions of China and Japan, causing significant yield losses. Its robust tillering capacity and high fecundity, combined with the development of both target and non-target-site resistance to herbicides means it is a formidable challenge to food security. Here we report on a chromosome-scale assembly of A. aequalis with a genome size of 2.83 Gb. The genome contained 33,758 high-confidence protein-coding genes with functional annotation. Comparative genomics revealed that the genome structure of A. aequalis is more similar to Hordeum vulgare rather than the more closely related Alopecurus myosuroides. The datasets provided here are the assembly FASTA file (lpAloAequ1.1.prim.cur.20230912.fasta.gz), the high-confidence protein-coding genes (Alaeq_EIv0.2.release_HC_genes.gff3.gz) and the full annotation which includes both low and high confidence features of all biotypes (Alaeq_EIv0.2.release.gff3.gz)
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Alopecurus aequalis is a winter annual or short-lived perennial bunchgrass which has in recent years emerged as the dominant agricultural weed of barley and wheat in certain regions of China and Japan, causing significant yield losses. Its robust tillering capacity and high fecundity, combined with the development of both target and non-target-site resistance to herbicides means it is a formidable challenge to food security. Here we report on a chromosome-scale assembly of A. aequalis with a genome size of 2.83 Gb. The genome contained 33,758 high-confidence protein-coding genes with functional annotation. Comparative genomics revealed that the genome structure of A. aequalis is more similar to Hordeum vulgare rather than the more closely related Alopecurus myosuroides and has undergone an expansion of cytochrome P450 genes, a gene family involved in non-target-site herbicide resistance.
URL	https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14100513

Title	Combined pangenomics and transcriptomics reveals core and redundant virulence processes in a rapidly evolving fungal plant pathogen
Description	Studying genomic variation in rapidly evolving pathogens potentially enables definition of genes supporting their "core biology" present, functional and expressed by all strains or "flexible biology", varying between strains. Genes supporting flexible biology may be considered to be "accessory", whilst the "core" gene set is likely to be important for common features of a pathogen species biology, including virulence on all host genotypes. The wheat-pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici represents one of the most rapidly evolving threats to global food security and was the focus of this study
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2022
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	A new method to prioritise core eukaryotic genes for functional analysis
URL	https://data.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/combined-pangenomics-and-transcriptomics-reveals-core-and-redu...

Title	Comparative transcriptomic analyses of black grass (Alopecurus myosuroides) and bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) response to waterlogging
Description	Transcriptome sequence reads deposited at National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as BioProject PRJNA1009248
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	Better understanding of "The mechanisms behind the contrasting responses to waterlogging in black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides) and wheat (Triticum aestivum)" - recently accepted for publication by Functional Plant Biology: Corresponding Author: Dana McGregor

Title	Dataset for: Investigating the threat to Sitka spruce from Ips typographus: discrimination and colonisation of Britain's principal commercial conifer by a damaging forest pest
Description
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2025
Provided To Others?	Yes
URL	https://data.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/7f865eb1-9130-4751-ab45-602fae413b02

Title	Endosymbiont sequencing dataset
Description	NCBI dataset BioProject ID: PRJNA1053351
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2024
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Dataset on the genome sequences of bacterial endosymbionts isolated from a variety of aphid species collected from the GH-CTE experiment.

Description	Apoplastic proteomics and activity testing
Organisation	National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Generating apoplastic fluids from infected wheat plants
Collaborator Contribution	Enzyme activity testing and effector protein inhibitor modelling
Impact	PhD student poster
Start Year	2023

Description	Apoplastic proteomics and activity testing
Organisation	University of Oxford
Department	Oxford Hub
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Generating apoplastic fluids from infected wheat plants
Collaborator Contribution	Enzyme activity testing and effector protein inhibitor modelling
Impact	PhD student poster
Start Year	2023

Description	Collaboration with Liverpool Hope
Organisation	Liverpool Hope University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Provided expertise in Chemical Ecology and molecular recognition mechanisms in insect olfaction.
Collaborator Contribution	Provided expertise in machine learning/
Impact	Multidisciplinary - Chemical Ecology, Synthetic chemistry, machine learning/AI, computational Datasets
Start Year	2024

Description	Collaboration with Muni University (Uganda{
Organisation	Muni University
Country	Uganda
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Our staff travelled to collaborators laboratory to provide training to local staff members on a selection of molecular biology techniques required for the project.
Collaborator Contribution	Collaborator provided expertise and resources for field collection of insect from across the country.
Impact	Project is multidisciplinary - molecular biology, microbiology chemical ecology, entomology. Datasets Publications (in progress)
Start Year	2024

Description	Collaboration with National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda)
Organisation	National Agricultural Research Organisation
Country	Uganda
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Shared technical methodologies required for undertaking joint research project and staff time to provide local training.
Collaborator Contribution	Provided introduction to other local researchers and politicians for building a wider network for future applications.
Impact	Multidisciplinary - molecular biology, microbiology, chemical ecology, entomology. Datasets Publications (in progress)
Start Year	2024

Description	PhD studentship: Investigating fungal spore production in UK arable crop systems under current and future environmental conditions
Organisation	University of Hertfordshire
Department	School of Life and Medical Sciences
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This is a PhD studentship supervised by Rothamsted Research and the University of Hertfordshire. It is funded jointly the Perry Foundation and the Morley Agricultural Foundation.
Collaborator Contribution	PhD supervision provided by supervisors (aerobiology, spore trapping, epidemiology, metabarcoding etc.)
Impact	PhD studentship ongoing
Start Year	2023

Description	SWBiO collaboration on fungal cell walls
Organisation	University of Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Building from joint BBSRC PhD project we are assembling new data towards joint funding application.
Collaborator Contribution	Building from joint BBSRC PhD project we are assembling new data towards joint funding application.
Impact	A PhD thesis and two published papers
Start Year	2018

Description	WGIN 4 (defra) Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus variant monitoring in oat crop (Lawrence Bramham)
Organisation	Rothamsted Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	WP1 - Crop Transition experiment. In the establishment year both trial sites were drilled to winter oats. Both sites subsequently developed BYDV symptoms due to natural infections. One of the aims of the GH CT experiment is to explore the unintentional agricultural risks associated with growing oat crops in an arable rotation within the main wheat growing region in the UK.
Collaborator Contribution	These two GH CT trial sites were used extensively for virus sampling and sequencing to identify the BYDV variants present and to determine whether other cereal virus species were present in the oat crop.
Impact	The collaborator Lawrence Bramham (WGIN 4) has already reported his 2023 BYDV stain variant findings to the AgIndustry at a AICC meeting in Birmingham in Jan 2024.
Start Year	2023

Description	WP1 Crop Transitions Experiment - Surveying the worm populations using new methodologies
Organisation	University of Warwick
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The designing of the GH Crop Transitions large plot experiments with six different UK crop rotation in two locations on the Rothamsted experimental farm. Free access to the University of Warwick worm team and soil acoustic team every month to permit worm sampling from each of the 42 plots and soil acoustic recordings. The collect worms are also take away for species identification and further acoustic analyses.
Collaborator Contribution	Monthly quantitative worm sampling throughout the year for each plot Monthly acoustic recordings of soil to detect worm movement and the movement of other invertebrates Worm species identification Acoustic recordings for each species
Impact	Journalist Phoebe Weston and photographer from the Guardian Newspaper visited Rothamsted and the GH Trial to discuss with PIs Jackie Stroud rom The University of Warwick, Carlos Abrahams from Baker Consultants and the Rothamsted PI Kim Hammond-Kosack who devised the GH Crop Transitions Experiment the worm acoustic project. The outcome will be a either a paper or online article on entitled ' Listening to the Soil' and the GH Crop Transitions Experiment which will be published in April 2024.
Start Year	2023

Description	Zymoseptoria genome re-annotation
Organisation	French National Institute of Agricultural Research
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We provided a reference genome re-annotation to intercompare with others
Collaborator Contribution	They intercompared numerous gene set predictions
Impact	Community manuscript under review and a public data release
Start Year	2022

Description	"10 minute presentation at the Royal Society of Biology Plant Health Summer Conference 2023 "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	10 minute presentation to update the Royal Society of Biology members on the research which had been undertaken as part of the Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship which we were awarded in 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	"ACS Fall Meeting: Harnessing Chemical Ecology to achieve Food Security "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Lisa Humbert presented her PhD studies at ACS Fall Meeting: Harnessing Chemical Ecology to achieve Food Security "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	"ACS Fall Meeting: Harnessing Chemical Ecology to achieve Food Security "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave an oral presentation at this symposium, as well as co-organised the symposium, and chaired the session(s). Follow on from the meeting led to organising a special issue in Pest Management Science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/15264998/Special%20Issue%20Call%20for%...

Description	"BAC-STOP report back meeting "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	"BAC-STOP report back meeting "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Cambridge Consultants, Discussions about the use of SynComs or individual microbial isolates as sustainable alternatives to fertilisers and pesticies. "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Cambridge Consultants, Discussions about the use of SynComs or individual microbial isolates as sustainable alternatives to fertilisers and pesticides and the potential to reduce chemical inputs whilst providing plant health protection. Growing health, BBR project: Crop Microbiome Cryobank also discussed and latest advances in soil health indicators. Output was current state of the research, current inoculum on the market and future recommendations for agronomic practices and policy. Also attended: Tim Mauchline
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-Agri-TechE-Roundtable-Biotech-R...

Description	"Contributed to article in Crop Production Magazine (interviewed) on evolution of fungicide resistance in the Phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus lingam: OSR disease: Fungicide resistance - Crop Production Magazine "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Contributed to article in Crop Production Magazine (interviewed) on evolution of fungicide resistance in the Phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus lingam: OSR disease: Fungicide resistance "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/technical/osr-disease-fungicide-resistance

Description	"Forest Invertebrates meeting, Royal Entomological Society "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Forest Invertebrates meeting, entitled 'Chemical signals mediate insect-bacteria interactions in Acute Oak Decline.' Also attended: John Caulfield, Jozsef Vuts: Chemical signals mediate insect-bacteria interactions in acute oak decline. Royal Entomological Society Forest Invertebrates SIG meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Four lectures given at Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China in October 2024 "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gave four lectures, each approximately 45 minutes to postgraduate students and staff at Hebei Agricultural University, China
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Guest Lecture - ""Weed Science and Biology"" Applied Crop Science: University of Nottingham - Invited by Hannah Cooper - 5 December 2024 "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	"Presented a guest lecture entitled ""Weed Science and Biology"" as part of the Applied Crop Science module at the University of Nottingham on 5 December 2024, invited by Hannah Cooper. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Invited seminar, Entomological Society of Ireland (online) "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on BAC-STOP/Growing Health related work on Acute Oak Decline (title: using the odour of bacteria to tackle acute oak decline).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Invited visit and seminar at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Chemical Ecology group "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I gave a seminar to Professor Peter Witzgalls research group in SLU, Alnarp, who are interested in microbial chemical ecology/chemical ecology in relation to forest pests. This included a tour of the labs and meeting other researchers within the institute. As a result, I have made connections, and am in touch with these researchers, with potential plans for future activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	"Online presentation to 22 schools about trees: 'Protecting trees from pests and disease' "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Approached by a STEM worker to give an online presentation to schools (years 5 and 6) across the east of England, around the topic of trees. Total number of attendees: 1548
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Webinar/Workshop: Enhanced Microbial Profiling and Metagenomics With Nanopore Sequencing "
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Webinar/Workshop: Enhanced Microbial Profiling and Metagenomics With Nanopore Sequencing. Advances and limitations to Nanopore sequencing, highlighting new chemistries and analysis scripts, software. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Poster Presentation in Abiotic Stress Section of International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) 2024 Congress "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Designed and presented a poster associated with Harrison et al., 2024 (DOI: 10.1071/FP23193) at the International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) 2024 Congress, Queensland, Australia, Cairns Convention Centre - 24-28 June 2024
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.ipmb2024.org/

Description	"Presentation at NEW-IPM ONE HEALTH conference, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, 5-7 September 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Presentation at the NEW-IPM ONE HEALTH conference, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, 5-7 September 2023 https://www.swansea.ac.uk/bioscience/research-and-impact/natural-products-biohub-project/naturalproductsbiohub-project-news-and-events/new-ipm-2023---one-health/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.swansea.ac.uk/bioscience/research-and-impact/natural-products-biohub-project/naturalprod...

Description	"Presented a 15 minute presentation as part of the Plant health day webinar, organised by Rothamsted Research "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invitation from Georgia Mitrousia to present our research on acute oak decline at a plant health webinar, as part of international plant health day
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	"Provided an interview for BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today programme - Import border checks, local elections and blackgrass "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Hosted Howard Shannon to interview myself and David Comont about our work in blackgrass and how it is impactful and useful for the Farming community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqvx

Description	"Public talk as part of fascination of plants day: 'Arboreal Ailments: can science save our woodlands? Spot the signs of tree disease with the scientists working to save them.' Took members of the public to diseased trees around the manor and gave an overview of research on tree health "
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"Public talk as part of fascination of plants day: 'Arboreal Ailments: can science save our woodlands? Spot the signs of tree disease with the scientists working to save them.' Took members of the public to diseased trees around the manor and gave an overview of research on tree health"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/event/plant-promenades-fascination-plants-day

Description	"SWBio Studentship: Liberty O'Brien, Supervisor David Whitel. Biodegradable plastics in soil and potential for detection using X-ray CT Scanner. "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	"Future experiments to be set up to see whether CT scanning can be used for non-destructive sampling and monitor the degradation of bioplastics within environmental and controlled environment samples. Long-term incubations to be set up" Also attended: Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Science museum lates event; Chemical Ecology display "
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Demonstrated chemical ecology techniques to general public, in relation to tree health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Session Organiser and Keynote Speaker - International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) 2024 "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Organised the Weed Biology and Herbicide session at International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) 2024 Congress which took place at the Cairns Convention Centre in Queensland, Australia, from 24-28 June 2024. Two other invited speakers and one presenter selected from Abstracts. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.ipmb2024.org/

Description	"Tour of New X-ray CT Scaning facilities Prof. Zhenjun Yang, Wuhan University, China "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Tour of the new Rothamsted X-ray CT Scanning facilities; Potential investigations from soil physical properties, non-destructive root and above-ground morphological development, insect pest damage, fungal infection of cereal crops, morphological differences of cereal cultivars, mutant vs wild type differences. Also attended; Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Tour of New X-ray CT Scaning facilities Visitors were from innovate Uk and South Africa "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Tour of the new Rothamsted X-ray CT Scanning facilities; Potential investigations from soil physical properties, non-destructive root and above-ground morphological development, insect pest damage, fungal infection of cereal crops, morphological differences of cereal cultivars, mutant vs wild type differences. Also attended: Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Tour of New X-ray CT Scanning facilities Nottingham University Kateryna Dugina "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Tour of the new Rothamsted X-ray CT Scanning facilities; Potential investigations from soil physical properties, non-destructive root and above-ground morphological development, insect pest damage, fungal infection of cereal crops, morphological differences of cereal cultivars, mutant vs wild type differences. Also attended: Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"Tour of new X-ray CT Scanning facilities Prof. Xiaotao Hu, Prof. Yong Peng, Prof. Wenne Wang, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, China "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Tour of the new Rothamsted X-ray CT Scanning facilities; Potential investigations from soil physical properties, non-destructive root and above-ground morphological development, insect pest damage, fungal infection of cereal crops, morphological differences of cereal cultivars, mutant vs wild type differences. Also attended: Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	"UKRI panel membership: UKRI-NERC Equitable nature-based climate resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa (Sept.-Nov. 2023) "
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	"Grant panel activities, reviewing/ranking proposals"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	"Work reported on Rothamsted website (engaged with Communications department) - Protecting West Africa's Chocolate, one flyover at a time | Rothamsted Research Protecting West Africa's Chocolate, one flyover at a time.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"• Work reported on Rothamsted website (engaged with Communications department) - Protecting West Africa's Chocolate, one flyover at a time | Rothamsted Research Protecting West Africa's Chocolate, one flyover at a time". "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/protecting-west-africas-chocolate-one-flyover-time

Description	4th Plant Microbiome Symposium 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at 4th Plant Microbiome Symposium 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	70th Plant Protection Days of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented talk on the impact of gut endosymbiont-emitted volatiles on Anastrepha fraterculus chemical ecology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	ABC Radio (Australia) South Australia Country Hour interview on 22 Nov 2023 - (Ist 11.20 minutes out of 55 minute show).
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	ABC Radio (Australia) South Australia Country Hour interview on 22 Nov 2023 -https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sa-country-hour/sa-country-hour/103116490 (Ist 11.20 minutes out of 55 minute show).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sa-country-hour/sa-country-hour/103116490

Description	AI in Chemistry Conference Organiser (Treasurer)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Help to organiser an annual conference held. I am the treasurer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	AI in Chemistry organising committee/treasurer
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	AI in chemistry is an annual conference, I gain knowledge/insights into new science through this and increase RRes awareness amongst peers and my network too
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Allerton Project: Visit to North Allerton Farm
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Visited Allerton project to engage with farmers. Changed opinion/inspired us to explore new ideas from farmer perspective
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	American Chemical Society Annual Fall Meeting, Denver, 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation given at ACS annual fall meeting, entitled 'Harnessing microbial chemical signals for pest and pathogen management', as part of the 'semiochemicals in sustainable agroecosystems' symposium, which I co-organised and chaired.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://acs.digitellinc.com/p/s/harnessing-microbial-chemical-signals-for-pest-and-pathogen-manageme...

Description	Applied Tree and Forest Biology Group Webinar: Using the Odour of Bacteria to Tackle Acute Oak Decline
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited webinar as part of Association of Applied Biologists webinar series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.aab.org.uk/event/applied-tree-and-forest-biology-group-webinar-december-2nd/

Description	Article for Farmers Weekly
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article published in Farmers weekly, following on from discussions at Cereals 2024, entitled: New research project needs farmers' wireworms
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/pests/new-research-project-needs-farmers-wireworms

Description	Article in Farmers weekly, "Research targets pheromones to control key arable pests", 17/10/2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in Farmers weekly, "Research targets pheromones to control key arable pests", 17/10/2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Article written for Country File Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Angela Karp was approached by Daniel Graham for an article on blackgrass for the BBC Countryfile Magazine - James Clark composed the article after a discussion and I and David Comont edited it before it went to the magazine editors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.countryfile.com/environment/blackgrass-problems-solutions

Description	Attended ACS Fall meeting, August 18-22 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Oral presentation at the annual American Chemical society conference. Over 1000 participants from over 50 countries attended the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Attended Cereals 2024 to showcase chemical ecology wireworm research
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Demonstrated chemical ecology work on wireworms, including a talk to secondary school students (10-20). Colleagues who also attended: Jozsef Vuts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Attended ISP55 networking event on sensing technologies in agriculture
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended networking events at ISP55 Sensing technologies in digital agriculture conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/events/isp55-sensing-technologies-for-digital-agriculture/

Description	Attended RRes Campus Discovery event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended RRes campus discovery event with tenant agritech businesses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Attended SCI Agriscience committee meeting- ongoing
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	SCI Agriscience committee meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Attended seminar deep learning model with Alan Turing institute
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended seminar with staff from the Alan Turing institute related to deep-learning models and their potential applications in delivering sustainable agriculture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	BBC interview
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Initial interview with BBC on https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.8644. Waiting for news article to be published.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.8644

Description	BBSRC CEO visit to RRes: Capabilities in Chemical Ecology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Visit to Rothamsted to view capabilities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	BBSRC Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases workshop, London, 22-23 May 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Workshop to facilitate international collaboration on future research in infectious diseases.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://engagementhub.ukri.org/bbsrc-rsp-international/ecology-and-evolution-of-infectious-diseases-...

Description	BBSRC Sustainable Agriculture visit to Rothamsted: Capabilities in Chemical Ecology
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	BBSRC Sustainable Agriculture visit to Rothamsted
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	BCPC Diseases Review, 15 Oct 2024, Co-organised event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended and co-organised the BCPC Diseases Review, 15 Oct 2024
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/expert-groups/diseases#:~:text=The%20purpose%20of%20the%20BCPC%20Diseases%20Wor...

Description	BCPC Diseases Review, 17 Oct 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Co-organised the BCPC Diseases conference, held at the NIAB Park Farm site, 17 Oct 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-diseases-review-2023

Description	BES Task and Finish group - International equity in ecological research plan development for BES
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Personal invitation to meetings with senior personnel of the BES discussing pathways to make science and ecological research more equitable across the world starting with the BES and its publishing journals
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	BPD programme meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Bacterial Plant Diseases programme meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://padlet.com/sarahmclusky/bpd-projects-meeting-4-6-march-2024-jm47l2i6sun6iu1f

Description	BSPP-AAB Plant Pathology 2023 conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Keynote invited presentation and session chair at BSPP-AAB Plant Pathology 2023 conference, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 6th - 8th September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.bspp.org.uk/conferences/plant-pathology-2023/

Description	Bacterial Plant Diseases programme meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Final stakeholder workshop of the Bacterial Plant Diseases programme in Manchester, UK. RRes participated on behalf of the BAC-STOP project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Biology in Action - British Science Week
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	As part of the Biology in Action day during British Science Week March 2023, this presetnation was one of five interactive and engaging sessions delivered by renowned scientists and communicators aimed at inspiring and motivating A-level, IB, BTEC and GCSE students. This talk focused on Plants, which live in constant change and are ceaselessly challenged. Responding correctly to their surroundings helps them to survive and produce equally skilled seeds. We'll explore how they accomplish these feats and why plants deserve the title of "Nature's Super Survivors".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://educationinaction.org.uk/study-day/biology-in-action-14-03-2023/

Description	British Mycological Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Joined the BMS council as chair of the Fungal Biology Research Committee
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Cereals 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Attendee at Cereals 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/cereals-2023/

Description	Cereals 2023 Exhibit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Exhibited project developments regarding methods to monitor airborne crop pathogens as part of Integrated Pest Management, to farmers, extension workers, Ag-chem industry and students over two days (13-14 June 2023).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Cereals 2024 event: The Take-all plot display
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	The Take-all living plot display involved the resistance accession Watkins 777 and the susceptible accession Paragon and was accompanied by one poster explaining the effects of different weather variable at different times of the year on take-all disease severity and incidence and a second poster on use of genetics to improve resistance to Take-all root disease. The overall aim of this display was to promote ways to increase wheat root health in the future through the deployment on novel genetics. The weather variables poster helped to explain to the very diverse audience the conditions which are most favourable to the development of this serious take-all root disease
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/cereals-2024

Description	Cereals 24 display
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Disseminate research. Also attended: Gail Canning, John Caulfield, Jonah Prout, Tim Mauchline, Sarah Dunham
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Chaired two sessions and made three presentations during World Aerobiology Conference, Vilnius, 1-4 July 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Chaired two sessions and made three presentations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.aerobiology2024.com/abstract-book/

Description	Co-organised and co-chaired a session on disease surveillance-BSPP annual conference, Oxford 12-13 Sept 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Co-organised and co-chaired a session on disease surveillance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.bspp.org.uk/conferences/ppath2024-parellel-session-surveillance-and-decision-support-in-...

Description	Co-organiser of American Chemical Society Annual Fall Meeting Symposium; Semiochemicals for Sustainable Agroecosystems
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Co-organised and chaired symposium at American Chemical Society Annual Fall Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Comment for UK scientific society magazine "Chemistry & Industry" that was released 8 MAY 2024 written by Antony King entitled "Genetically modifying the colour of crops could help robots to pick out the weeds."
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Provided an Expert Opinion on an article and its proposal for controlling weeds. Author was ANTHONY KING it released 8 MAY 2024 and was entitled "Genetically modifying the colour of crops could help robots to pick out the weeds." for the UK scientific society magazine Chemistry & Industry
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.soci.org/chemistry-and-industry/cni-data/2024/5/genetic-colouring-could-unlock-robotic-w...

Description	Company collaboration with Croda / Plant Impact and consultancy agreement
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Establishing elements of fungicide testing programs in wheat vs Septoria
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Conference presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave a invited presentation to the British Society of Plant Pathology in Autumn 2023 - around 150 delegates (national/international). Following the talk, new discussions were had and collaborations formed, some of which will strengthen work undertaken as part of this RRes ISP
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Contributed to article Farmer and Grower - pathology section November 2024 (The evolutionary arms race of pesticide resistance)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Contributed to article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Defra Visit: Prof Nicola Spence
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Acute Oak Decline, Emerald Ash Borer, Insect surveys and fungal spore monitoring, Sampling strategies for plant, wood, food imports- Potential development of volatiles, spore traps, air DNA sampling strategies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Discussion with Joseph Onyeka Director of Research at National Root Crops Research Institute, Nigeria
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Visit of Joseph Onyeka, (Director of Research - External Funded Project Office at National Root Crops Research Institute, Nigeria) . We discussed plans of collaboration with Dr Julian Smith and other interested parties.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Discussion with NatureMetrics
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Met with representatives of NatureMetrics: Tom Ludwig (Sector Head Regenerative and Sustainable Agriculture), Andrew Briscoe (Head of Science), Tiffany Jedrecka (R&D Lead) to discuss eDNA applications and scope for R&D collaborations/grants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Discussions with Bayer on Testing4Ag programme
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussions with Bayer about establishing work with them using their Testing4Ag programme, for screening natural products against a range of agricultural pests. Colleague David Withall also attended and we have submitted compounds for evaluation through their platforms
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Discussions with Gowan
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussions with Gowan about potential collaboration with Rothamsted on biofungicides. Colleague David Withall also attended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	EWRS and IWGC Sponsored Weed Genomics Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The EWRS Working groups "Education & Training", "Weed Management in Mediterranean Cropping Systems" and "Herbicide Resistance" are organizing a 4-day in-depth training course on weed genomics in February/March 2023. The course will be supported by the International Weed Genomics Consortium (IWGC). The course is aimed at students, Ph.D. candidates and postdocs actively involved in research on weed genomics, weeds resistant to herbicides and weed stress. In this course, we will provide an overview of concepts and tools that can be used to access and analyze the genome of weed species and populations genetics. More specifically, the focus of the course will be on: 1. Introduction to genomic, IWGC, and herbicide resistance 2. Introduction to the IWGC database - Weedpedia 3. Genome sequence generation, analyses and specific questions 4. Transcriptome analyses, pitfalls and additional information 5. Other genomic technologies (e.g. QTL analyses, etc.) 6. Practical work exploring non-target site resistance and /or other weed traits Aside from deepening your scientific knowledge, this course also offers an excellent opportunity to broaden your network and to interact with established scientists. Additionally, students can be awarded 2 ECTS-credit points from Ondokuz Mayis University (Turkey) when successfully participating in the course. Lecturers Roland Beffa (Senior Scientist Consultant, Germany) Eric Patterson (Michigan State University, US) Dana MacGregor (Rothamsted Research, UK) Maor Matzrafi (Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Institute, Israel)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.ewrs.org/en/info/Events/EWRS-and-IWGC-Training-course-ldquo-Weed-genomicsrdquo

Description	Editorial board member, Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Editorial board member, Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Editorial board member, Letters in Applied Microbiology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Member of Letters in Applied Microbiology editorial board, as a reviewer editor.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Engaged with new academic partner to develop potential new collaboration.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Develop plans for development of new research areas and planned for joint grant applications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Engagement with DEFRA and APHA technology scouting team
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Hosted virtual meeting with the technology scout teams from DEFRA and APHA to present our work on biomolecular sensors and their application within DEFRA and APHA remits.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Engagement with FC stakeholders about surveillance for EAB
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Had a meeting and provided information and a slide deck on surveillance for the Emerald Ash Borer to Katie Parker from the Forestry Commission. Katie is the Plant Health Forestry team's Contracts and Surveys Manager. She plan England's surveys for GB Priority and Quarantine Pests. FC with locations for EAB surveillance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Engagement with ash tree researchers and stakeholders at FC and ObservaTree
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Engagement with ash tree researchers and stakeholders at FR and ObservaTree to discuss future collaboration and use of the SMARTIES models as well as new emerging research from ObservaTree and FR
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Ento `23
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Royal Entomological Society Annual Meeting: Ento `23, Exeter, UK poster (Semiochemical-based alternative concepts for the management of wireworms)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/ento23-speakers-chairs/

Description	Experience Rothamsted
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	"Demonstration of chemical ecology techniques (air entrainments/olfactometry/analytical chemistry) to 'Experience Rothamsted' students (sixth form)"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Farmers Weekly 17 Jan 2025 in-field pest and disease monitoring article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	An interview with Louise Impey of Farmers Weekly, which was published in an article on 17 January 2025: https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/disease-management/what-the-latest-in-field-pest-and-disease-detection-tech-can-offer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/disease-management/what-the-latest-in-field-pest-and-di...

Description	Farmers guardian article published: 'Got wireworm damage on your farm? Rothamsted scientists need your help!'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article published in Farmers Guardian calling on Farmers to provide us with wireworms for our research, following on from conversations at Cereals 2024.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://issuu.com/farmersguardian/docs/farmers_guardian_30th_august_2024

Description	Farming Today interview 1/5/24
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave an interview to Howard Shannon for BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme where we discussed blackgrass and the work we are doing to investigate its tolerances and resistances.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yqvx

Description	Florimund Desprez Group visit to RRes: Capabilities in Chemical Ecology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Visit by Florimund Desprez Group to Rothamsted to learn about research activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Fungal meeting talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	British Mycological Society Annual Scientific Meeting - Fungal Interactions talk, Newcastle, UK (Leveraging antagonistic fungal interactions as biocontrol for destructive forest pathogens in the genus Armillaria)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Gave an invited seminar to ADAS on Zymoseptoria work at Rothamsted in December
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Gave an invited seminar to ADAS on Zymoseptoria work at Rothamsted in December. The seminar was attended by fungicide resistance group leads, and head of department, alongside members of the Zymoseptoria and disease monitoring teams. Lots of engaging discussions after the seminar, with a reciprocal meeting scheduled for 2025, with the aim of identifying grant and/or iCASE studentship projects for future funding rounds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Gowan Technical Week - Invited Keynote Speaker
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	"Presented data and findings from Collaborative project at Gowan Technical Week at the Gowan R&D Centre in Novara, Italy, 18-19 November 2024. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Guardian interview
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interview for the Guardian about https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.8644. "Investigating the threat to Sitka spruce from Ips typographus: discrimination and colonization of Britain's principal commercial conifer by a damaging forest pest". https://apigateway.agilitypr.com/briefings/history/e48ea335-0e6b-4297-9818-7fa59d0913b9
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.8644

Description	Guest Editor for Special Issue in Pest Management Science; Harnessing Chemical Ecology for Improved Pest Management
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Guest Editor for Special Issue in Pest Management Science; Harnessing Chemical Ecology for Improved Pest Management. 50+ manuscripts submitted to special issue, due to be published in April 2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025
URL	https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15264998/call-for-papers/Chemical-Ecology-fo...

Description	Guest Lecture at University of Nottingham - Applied Crop Science course - topic = Weed Biology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	"1) The world requires more food now and in the future. a) Modern agriculture is the key to delivering sufficient food. b) But the world has no more space to move into to generate more food. c) ILO1 = Therefore modern agriculture must be efficient and effective with the land we have. 2) What is needed for efficient and effective modern agriculture? a) Among the other needs (sunlight, air, water, nutrients, protection, time), plants need space - e.g. lack of competition from weeds. i) Rothamsted is working on research to understand how to meet these needs. b) ILO2 = Therefore, less weeds = more efficient agriculture = more food c) In the UK, black-grass is the major arable weed that impacts yields. 3) How to control weeds? a) Among the options is chemical control b) Modern agriculture has relied on chemical controls and they have been used extensively across the world. c) ILO3 = Modern agriculture that relies on chemical controls has selected for herbicide-resistant weeds. i) Herbicide resistance has evolved in many different species. ii) Herbicide resistance has appeared in many different crops. iii) Herbicide resistance occurs through TSR or NTSR d) How to control herbicide resistant weeds? i) Better understanding of weediness and weedy traits (1) ILO4 = Different mechanisms allow weeds to resist herbicides (a) Change in uptake of herbicide. (b) Change in localisation of herbicide away from target. (c) Change in the chemical structure of the herbicide. (d) Some combination of the above (e) Tools developed to test causation rather than correlation and functionally validate candidate genes. (2) ILO5 = different biological traits allow weeds to circumvent other control methods (a) Germinating after planting and dropping seeds before harvest is advantageous. (b) Being able to survive abiotic stress better than the crop is advantageous. (3) New approaches are needed "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Helped to host Graham Head (Bayer) visit Feb 22nd 2024 as someone who was interested in resistance / resistance management in Rothamsted
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Was one of the participants for the visit of Graham Head (Bayer) when he came to Rothamsted to discuss resistance / resistance management activities that we are engaged in. Conversation sparked interest in our research including highlighting the work that we are already doing with Bayer.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Hertfordshire County show
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Rothamsted Research stall at Hertfordshire County show
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Hosted representatives from Delta-T to tour glasshouse facilites at Rothamsted - requested Jack Turner also accompany the tour as he has best insight into what is currently in use and needs optimising.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	"Hosted two representatives from the Soil Moisture, Data Logging, Meteorology and Plant Science company Delta-T to visit the Rothamsted Glasshouses so they could get an idea on how their products fit with our needs and what they could offer. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Hosting the visit of three MPs currently serving on the cross party Parliament Science Technology and Innovation Select Committee
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The three visiting MPs to Rothamsted in October 2023 were MPs Greg Clark, Katherine Fletcher & Stephen Metcalfe accompanied by secretary of the committee Dr Claire Kanja . Together they explored topics on increasing insecticide resistance, lack of alternative modes of action, the need for novel IPM strategies, the emergence of new pest and virus threats in the UK due to climate change/ lack of effective insecticides/ withdrawal of active ingredients. There was also a facilities tour including the suction traps used for the ongoing UK wide Rothamsted Insect Survey. The DSW participating members were Dr Lawrence Bramham (a DSW post-doctoral specialist in cereal-aphid-virus interactions) and his 3rd year DSW aligned BBSRC-SWBio DTP student Izayana Sandoval-Carvajal.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Hylobius online meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Hylobius special interest meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	IIP - RRes-Brazil partnership for protecting crops against viral plant diseases and associated vectors
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In collaboration with an established contact, Maria Carolina Blassioli Moraes, a two-day workshop was organised in Brazil, Embrapa-Cenargen site, Brasilia. This event was preceded by a virtual meeting, ensuring all attendees were equipped with an understanding of the aims/objectives for the in-person workshop, and requirements of them as attendees. An intentionally limited cohort (n = 9) of RRes (John Caulfield, Lawrence Bramham and Vanessa Nessner Kavamura) and Brazilian scientists were invited to attend with expertise spanning viral, entomological, microbial and ecological research of mutual UK-Brazil interest.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	IWGC Webinar entitled "Quantifying and Getting to the Roots of Waterlogging Tolerance in Blackgrass vs Wheat"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented a one-hour seminar entitled "Quantifying and Getting to the Roots of Waterlogging Tolerance in Blackgrass vs Wheat" at the International Weed Genomics Consortium webinar series. Presented data from Harrison et al., 2024 as well as other papers, and answered questions from the audience of 44 participants on the day. Seminar was recorded and will be available at https://www.weedgenomics.org/quantifying-and-getting-to-the-roots-of-waterlogging-tolerance-in-blackgrass-vs-wheat/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.weedgenomics.org/quantifying-and-getting-to-the-roots-of-waterlogging-tolerance-in-black...

Description	IWGC Weed Genomics workshop at The University of Western Australia and Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I presented a 20 minute talk and answered questions at the 2023 Weed Genomics workshop held on Friday 22nd September at the University Club Formal Dining Room at The University of Western Australia. This workshop was hosted by the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative in partnership with The Institute of Agriculture, UWA, and the International Weed Genomics Consortium. It was a face to face event which will provide attendees with a half-day session to enable more in-depth discussion of weed genomics following the PAG Australia weed genomics workshop on 21 September (see PAG Australia website for more details on the PAG workshop). Multiple scientists from inter-state and internationally were present in Perth with shared interests in weed genomics. The objectives were to explore opportunities and priorities for weed genomics research in Australia and beyond. The sessions consisted of several scientific presentations, building on and adding to those presented at the PAG workshop, and a round table discussion section.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1077525?eid=1077525&

Description	Industry briefing (Gowan)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Met with International representatives from Gowan's insecticides portfolio team to brief them on the progression of diamide resistance in Lepidopteran pests
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Insect Behaviour SIG
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Convenor of Royal Entomological Society Insect behaviour SIG meeting: The role of microbes (environmental and endosymbionts) in insect behaviour, online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/behaviour-sig-2023/

Description	Interaction with BASF on interest in new tool developed associated with Invention disclosure
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	To gauge interest in company for new RRes tool developed to aid identification of future fungicide targets in plant pathogens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Interaction with company - Adama / Gilboa
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Request to use our scientific platform / tools for fungicide mode of action study
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Interactions with NiAB on Septoria disease resistance
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Multiple discussion relating to future uplift projects and ongoing collaborations including BBSRC sLoLa phase 2 submission
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	International Aerobiology Newsletter Article, Vol 94, Jan 2024 - "Aerobiology Down Under: airborne spore research showcased at the Australasian Plant Pathology Society conference, Adelaide, 20-24 November 2023"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Article published in the International Aerobiology Newsletter, Vol 94, Jan 2024 - "Aerobiology Down Under: airborne spore research showcased at the Australasian Plant Pathology Society conference, Adelaide, 20-24 November 2023"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://mcusercontent.com/21f665e29e600c223f7d3415d/files/c9666d5b-205f-b3f7-326c-88119fd609bd/Newsl...

Description	Interview about ERGA pilot scheme
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Was interviewed by Amy Lyall at Earlham Institute for their website article on our contribution to the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) project. I provided a quote about the work I am doing with them as a sample ambassador. "And Dr Dana MacGregor, Weed Molecular Biologist at Rothamsted Research, contributed plant material for orange foxtail. She says: "We have been studying Alopecurus aequalis (orange foxtail) and Alopecurus myosuroides (black-grass), which are the most problematic weeds for wheat cultivation in China and the UK respectively. "While we knew both species survive herbicide application, our understanding of how they accomplish this feat was limited. "Early in our research programme, we encountered a scientific roadblock. Despite successfully generating 'omics data, our inability to access a complete and annotated genome for both species hindered our ability to effectively interpret it. "Collaborating with the Earlham Institute on the ERGA Pilot project, we have generated a reference-grade genome for orange foxtail. This resource allows us to overcome our knowledge barriers and begin asking the questions that are crucial to understanding how these weeds survive. "Our new genome not only facilitates our research but - when made public - will empower other researchers to explore other molecular aspects of this insidious weed and together we will generate knowledge that results in effective and sustainable weed control.""
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/fish-fungus-grass-bee-and-brassica

Description	Interview for Farming Today
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave an interview for BBC farming today on Blackgrass
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Interview for with Colin Ley for The Courier Fife
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was interviewed by Colin Ley for the Courier & Advertiser looking for additional information after our the recent press release regarding our paper on waterlogging tolerance of blackgrass versus wheat. I edited the release and saw it through to print in The Courier & Advertiser Monday April 8, 2024 on page 32 in the Farming section.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://epaper.thecourier.co.uk/app/COUFIF/editionguid/6853dc39-dad2-4753-a4f7-688f63b1f5d5

Description	Interview with Crop Production Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Asked to give an interview to Heather Briggs at the Crop Production Magazine about the recent presentation at AAB Presidents meeting on 'Nature-based and engineered biology solutions to climate mitigation'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://issuu.com/kelseymedia/docs/cpm_april_2023/50

Description	Invited Key note presentation at VII Congress of the Latin American Association of Chemical Ecology (ALAEQ)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Key note presentation at VII Congress of the Latin American Association of Chemical Ecology (ALAEQ)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Invited Keynote presentation at Australasian Plant Pathology Society conference, 21 November 2023, Adelaide.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote presentation at Australasian Plant Pathology Society conference, 21 November 2023, Adelaide.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://eventstudio.eventsair.com/apps2023/program

Description	Invited Talk - Cornell University USA
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Invited Webinar for the American Chemical Society Lunchtime seminar series- 'The Chemical Ecology of Acute Oak Decline'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Webinar for the American Chemical Society Lunchtime seminar series- 'The Chemical Ecology of Acute Oak Decline'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Invited member of the 4 person panel for the discussion on ' Regenerative agriculture and the future of crop breeding' on the Cereals Mainstage
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Short talk on the Growing Health Crop Transitions experiment. Then took part in the panel discussion and Q and A session on plant breeding and regenerative agriculture.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/cereals-2024

Description	Invited oral presentation to the British Mycological Society annual meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited to present work on Septoria including new platform for antifungals discovery from microbes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Invited presentation at New IPM symposium, Swansea: The use of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Improved Pest Management: A Chemical Ecology perspective
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at New IPM symposium, Swansea: The use of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Improved Pest Management: A Chemical Ecology perspective
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://newipm.com/speakers

Description	Invited presentation at a workshop held at Embrapa Biotechnology and Genetic Resources, Brazil. Funded via FAPDF
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at a workshop to students and Embrapa Staff
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Invited speak to '21st Century Frontiers in Chemical Biology symposium'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Invited speaker at the British Crop Production Council (BCPC)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave an invited presentation on Rothamsted's research on weeds and remote weed detection. Audience was other researchers (including ADAS, NIAB), ag-chem representatives, farming press, postgrad students, and regulatory bodies e.g. CRD, DEFRA It's a recurring annual meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-weeds-review-2023

Description	Kim hammond-Kosack interview with freelance journalist at Cereals 2024 about Take-all root disease then article appeared in Crop Production Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	The article that appeared in the Crop Production Magazine is entitled 'Seed Treatments: Avoiding the Take-all trap' . The overall purpose of the article was to explain the risks early drilling pose to the wheat crop with regard to this root disease and the on farm options available to mitigate again this disease problem. Article published at end of July 2024 , so that farmers could alter their husbandry practices to reduce the take-all disease risk in the 2024-2025 winter wheat crop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/technical/seed-treatments-avoiding-the-take-all-trap/

Description	Laboratory visits, invited seminars, and small-group discussions
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Funded by the listed projects, I travelled to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) to give meet with undergraduates, post-graduates, and research scientists as well as to give a invited seminar within the post-graduate programme of Fitotechnica.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	MPs Visit: Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee roundtable discussion and tours.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	MPs Visit: Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee roundtable discussion and tours. Threats & opportunities for soil health; ELMs & government support, research on healthy soils, including metrics & data. Lab tours, potential of microbiomes within farming practice, pathogen monitoring, healthy soils and ELMS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Meetings with fellow researchers & Stakeholders in the BAC-STOP project.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Stakeholder meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Monthly engaging with industrial partner/spin-out
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Monthly engagement with industrial collaborators/spinout company to progress technologies and research outputs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	NEW-IPM ONE HEALTH
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	NEW-IPM ONE HEALTH, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, 5-7 September 2023 (online presentation) https://www.swansea.ac.uk/bioscience/research-and-impact/natural-products-biohub-project/naturalproductsbiohub-project-news-and-events/new-ipm-2023---one-health/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	New IPM 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	New IPM - One Health 2023 International Symposium and networking event talk, Swansea University, UK (Lure development for the stored legume pest, Acanthoscelides obtectus)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://international-pest-control.com/wordpress/event/new-ipm-2023-one-health/

Description	New Scientist Live
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Engaged with the general public to share insights on research at Rothamsted Research, particularly our work on the wheat plant microbiome. Many were surprised to learn about the crucial role microorganisms play in promoting plant growth and health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	New Scientist Live Chemical Ecology display
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented at RRes Chemical Ecology Stand over the event timeline (3 days)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Nottingham University group visit 20 February 2025
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	About 35 undergraduate and postgraduate students visited Rothamsted Research on 20 February 2025 for presentations, discussion, Q&A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Nottingham University group visit 7 February 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	About 35 undergraduate and postgraduate students visited Rothamsted Research on 7 February 2024 for presentations, discussion, Q&A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Oak Health webinar
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	OAK-HOPE webinar: Management, Monitoring and Modelling of Oak Decline
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Oak research stakeholder event (Forest research, Alice Holt)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A workshop for stakeholders involved in oak research, such as Forest Research, RRes, Action Oak, DEFRA, Grosvenor Estate, universities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Open Farm Sunday
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"The event consisted of tractor trailer tours around site, with a stop at Broadbalk, where I was stationed with a PhD student and Paul Poulton, talking about Broadbalk experiment and about the research conducted there related to wheat microbiome. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Outreach at Latitude festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Outreach to demonstrate RRes work to general public - interest discussions with general public/ showcasing our research. Colleagues David Withall and Lisa Humbert also attended. Lisa presented her work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Oxford Farming Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Student helper at Oxford Farming Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.ofc.org.uk/conference/2024

Description	Participant in Roundtable Meeting and International Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Diversification, hosted by NIAB/University of Cambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Attendance and participation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Patent application
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion with Masters and Clark and submission of application for new way of controlling Septoria disease on wheat
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Personal Development Workshop at Student-led Retreat
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	I designed and ran a 3-hour "Things I Should Know" session for between 52 and 67 PhD students enrolled on the SWBio DTP for their annual student-led retreat. The discussion began by acknowledging that scientist's sense of self is often tied to their roles and that imposter syndrome can occur due to the challenges of science and career progression. Tips were shared on overcoming this, including a focus on how effective networking at conferences can be used to expand their professional cohort. The importance of having a deliberate plan to "sell" their ideas, especially in presenting themselves for future job opportunities, was also highlighted. Participants were then encouraged to practice overcoming imposter syndrome by networking and pitching ideas within the group. The activities included self-reflection, small group work, an external imposter syndrome quiz, and a two-team debate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Phoma resistance to azole fungicides found in western Europe - Farmers Weekly article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Phoma resistance to azole fungicides found in western Europe - Farmers Weekly
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/disease-management/phoma-resistance-to-azole-fungicides...

Description	Policy officer for British Ecological Society Special Interest Group (Forest Ecology)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Policy officer for British Ecological Society Special Interest Group (Forest Ecology)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Poster Presentation at PAG (Plant and Animal Genomes) Australia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented a Poster at PAG Australia entitled "A Comparative Genomics Approach to Investigate the Parallel Evolution of Weediness in Alopecurus Myosuroides (black-grass) and Alopecurus Aequalis (orange foxtail)" with me as first and presenting author along with Jonathan Wright2, Jun Li3, Paul Neve4, Seanna McTaggart5 and Anthony Hall2, (1)Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, (2)Earlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom, (3)Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, (4)University of Copenhagen, Taastrup, Taastrup, Denmark, (5)Earlham Institute, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Presented at 2 poster sessions and held various discussions during the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://pag.confex.com/pag/au2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/51038

Description	Poster at ACS Fall Meeting: Harnessing Chemical Ecology to achieve Food Security
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at ACS Fall Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Potato Processors Association meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Potato Processors Association technical meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Potato Producers Association meeting, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Provided overview of wireworm research at Rothamsted to the Potato Technical Committee, following interactions at Cereals 2024
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Potential Industry contract research - Agplenus
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussion on use of Zymoseptoria platform for new fungicide testing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Presentation - IMPPC23
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote speaker for the 2nd International Molecular Plant Protection Congress- IMPPC2023 held at Hektas Agricultural Innovation, Training and Experience Center, Orhangazi-Bursa,Türkiye between May 15-18, 2023. The abstract for the talk I gave is below. Today's Weed Scientists are fortunate to have access to genomic data for problematic weeds. These data are unequivocally leading to better knowledge and understanding of the fundamental biology of weediness, weed population genetics, and ecology. However, the more we know, the clearer it becomes that a genome alone is not sufficient. For instance, a single genome is much less informative than a pangenome or multiple genomes from sister species, and the outputs from analysis of genome(s) indicates correlations rather than demonstrates causation; therefore these new data generate new hypotheses that require further testing. For instance, our recent publication shows that genetic basis of non-target site resistance in black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides) differs between populations, where populations presenting similar herbicide resistance phenotypes have significant differences in differentially expressed genes or QTLs associated with resistance. Ours and other experiments have identified candidate genes and pathways correlated with weedy traits, but thus far, most studies finish with these correlations rather than demonstrating causation. To get beyond correlations and test hypotheses concerning causation, Weed Science requires tools to functionally validate genes of interest rapidly and accurately. Our lab aims to bring agricultural weeds into the molecular laboratory and generate the necessary resources and techniques that will allow us to test genotype-to-phenotype hypotheses directly in weedy species. For instance, using the troublesome arable weed black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides), we adapted methods for virus-induced gene silencing or virus-mediated overexpression to transiently reduce or induce gene expression in planta respectively. This presentation will discuss those breakthroughs, reiterate why they are necessary, and give examples of how genomic resources and genetic tools has enabled better molecular-level understanding of weediness and weedy traits.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.imppc2023.org/en/KEYNOTE-SPEAKERS.html

Description	Presentation at DSV variety launch on oilseed rape disease biology and control, 24 May 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Made a 20-minute presentation to farmers on oilseed rape disease biology and control at DSV variety launch, 24 May 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Presentation at the APPS Plant Health Surveillance workshop, SARDI-Adelaide, 20 Nov 2023.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presentation at the APPS Plant Health Surveillance workshop, SARDI-Adelaide, 20 Nov 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Presentation of plant pathogen spore detectors at Croptech Show, Stoneleigh, 27-28 Nov 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presentation of plant pathogen spore detectors at Croptech Show, Stoneleigh, 27-28 Nov 2024
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/event/croptec#:~:text=Join%20us%20for%20the%20UK%27s%20premier%20exhibi...

Description	Presented online webinar in the 'Beyond' series organised by INRAE, 19 Apr 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presented a webinar in the 'Beyond' series, which is organised by INRAE (France).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://beyond.paca.hub.inrae.fr/open-events/19april_nextgenseq

Description	Presented science at the Hertfordshire County Show 26th May 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented at the RRes stall at the Hertfordshire County Show. Gave an overview of Lisa PhD project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Presenting in Emerging Agri-Tech session at REAP 23 conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Present during the emerging agri-tech section of the REAP event where we discussed new technologies emerging from our research and discussed the potential benefits to end users.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/microsite-page/reap-2023/

Description	Press Release on PHI-base Nucleic Acids Research publication Jan 2025
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Rothamsted Press release for the published article 176. Martin Urban, Alayne Cuzick, James Seager, Nagashree Nonavinakere, Jashobanta Sahu, Pallavi Sahu, Vijay Laksmi Iyer, Lokanath Khamari, Manuel Carbajo Martinez and Kim E. Hammond-Kosack (2025) PHI-base - The multi-species Pathogen-Host Interaction Database in 2025. Nucleic Acids Research (database issue) 53, D826-D838. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1084.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/pathogen-host-database-refocuses-genes

Description	Press release - https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/first-phoma-leaf-spot-resistance-azole-fungicide-found-western-europe
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Press release - https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/first-phoma-leaf-spot-resistance-azole-fungicide-found-western-europe
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/first-phoma-leaf-spot-resistance-azole-fungicide-found-western-eur...

Description	Press release aligned to publication
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	To publicise to a more general audience a published paper in the journal PloS Pathogens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Press release on the GH Crop Transitions Experiment and its use by external collaborators at Warwick to monitor for worms. Hosted visit of the Guardian journalist Phoebe Weston March 2024.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Full explanation of the new GH Crop Transitions experiment. Use of GH CT exp for non-destructive acoustic monitoring and surveying of worm populations in soil
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/scientists-wildlife-sounds-underground-species-s...

Description	Press release on ARIES project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Press release explaining research to sample airborne spores above forest canopies in Ghana, sequence what microbes were present and develop a diagnostic assay for the pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/protecting-west-africas-chocolate-one-flyover-time

Description	Project meeting Argentina
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Visit and seminars to INTA and University of Buenos Aires for project meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Provided quotes and information for Earlham Institute's website article on our contribution to the European Reference Genome Atlas project.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"I provided details and information for the article about our ERGA-related work and how it was impactful and useful. ""We have been studying Alopecurus aequalis (orange foxtail) and Alopecurus myosuroides (black-grass), which are the most problematic weeds for wheat cultivation in China and the UK respectively. While we knew both species survive herbicide application, our understanding of how they accomplish this feat was limited. To move beyond the binary classification of "herbicide resistant" or " herbicide sensitive", our goal was to gain a mechanistic understanding of the herbicide resistance(s) of these two Alopecurus species, examining both their similarities and differences. Early in our research programme, we encountered a scientific roadblock. Despite successfully generating 'omics data, our inability to access to a complete and annotated genome for both species hindered our ability to effectively interpret these data. Collaborating with the Earlham Institute on the ERGA project, we have generated a genome for orange foxtail. This resource allows us to overcome our knowledge barriers and begin asking the questions that are crucial to understanding how these weeds survive. Our new genome not only facilitates our research but when made public, will empower other researchers to explore other molecular aspects of this insidious weed and together we will generate knowledge that results in effective and sustainable weed control. "" "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/fish-fungus-grass-bee-and-brassica

Description	Provided text and comments for a Blackgrass feature in Countryfile Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Was recommended by Director CEO Angela Karp to provide comment and conversation for a Blackgrass article for BBC Countryfile Magazine promoted by Daniel Graham
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.countryfile.com/environment/blackgrass-problems-solutions

Description	RREs comms video for International Day of Plant Health
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talked about new research efforts to combat Septoria disease on wheat
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	RRes King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah Collaboration workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	RRes King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah Collaboration workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	RSC BMCS Committee Member
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Committee member on BMCS. Planning future events/conferences for those involved in biology or medicinal chemistry
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.rscbmcs.org/about/committee/

Description	RSC Mid Anglia Committee
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Committee member of the RSC Mid Anglia committee, we plan local events for members of the RSC (Mid Anglia). Quarterly meetings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Ran a 'Things I Should Know' Workshop as a new European Weed Research Society webinar entitled "How to read a Scientific Paper"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	"The EWRS Working Group Education and Training is happy to announce the webinar "How to read a scientific paper" given by Dr Dana MacGregor from Rothamsted Research (UK). We all know that as scientists we ought to read papers within and beyond our own specialisms. But what does "read papers" really mean? Why is it so important? And with workloads that often outweigh the time available, how can you read scientific literature efficiently and effectively? If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then join us for this seminar where we will demystify what "reading papers" means. You will gain practical tips on how efficiently extract the valuable information buried within scientific literature and use it to your advantage. Armed with this knowledge you will also write better papers. Once you understand the purpose of each section, you can help your readers (as well as those all-important reviewers and editors) efficiently get the answers they seek. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82991158123?pwd=vJpv6GATIrl4HkWe83tOcc5070Xp84.1

Description	Rothamsted Campus Discovery Event: Capabilities in Chemical Ecology
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presented Chemical Ecology Capability to Rothamsted tenant companies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Rothamsted Enterprises Ltd Discovery Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"On 25/05/23 I presented the work that I am doing in collaboration with Gowan and other RRes Scientists under the title "Bringing Agricultural Weeds into the Molecular Labs" during the REL Campus Discovery event "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Royal Entomological Society Insect behaviour SIG meeting: The role of microbes (environmental and endosymbionts) in insect behaviour
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Royal Entomological Society Insect behaviour SIG meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Royal Entomological Society Visit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Royal Entomological Society Visit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	SCI Agrisciences Committee (secretary)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Secretary for SCI Agrisciences committee, we plan events at national level. With speakers from UK and overseas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	SCI Organising committee and attending 'Getting the food system right: from policy to production to processing'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	SCI Organising committee and attending 'Getting the food system right: from policy to production to processing'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025
URL	https://www.soci.org/events/agrisciences-group/2025/getting-the-food-system-right-from-policy-to-pro...

Description	School Visit (Primary school North London)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	School visit and Powerpoint presentation/hands on microscope session on insect pests and beneficials and how to combat insect pests. 60 pupils and two teachers attended with questions and discussion afterwards. School reported increased interest on further participation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	School Visit - Luton Sixth Form College - Careers Talk
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Careers talk at a local sixth form college in Luton
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	School Visit - Year 3 Plant Science - Harpenden Academy
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	On the 12th of May, I spent 45 minutes with the 31 pupils in the Year 3 class at Harpenden Academy giving them a 20 minute talk about the research that I and others at Rothamsted are doing to address research questions covered by their Science Curriculum. I then spent another 25 minutes answering their questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	School of Life Sciences and the Environment seminar and individual meetings at Royal Holloway
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Gave the first in the departmental seminar series in the Department of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway. The audience was approximately 50 people made up of a mixture of staff, post graduate and 3rd year undergraduate students and forms part of the teaching provision for the master's course in Biological sciences. Also met with other members of the department and Early Career Researchers throughout the day. Abstract below. Decades of work on model plants have accelerated scientific progress, and while these advances have led to many benefits, little of this work has focused on plant species that inflict real-world harm. Agricultural weeds significantly reduce yields and increase costs, yet our physiological and mechanistic understanding of how they survive in modern agriculture lags considerably behind that of the crops the grow next to. A better understanding of weeds not only allows us to understand how they avoid the chemical and anthropogenic selection pressures we place on them, but also how they survive the environmental challenges that harm our crops. To start to understand weeds and the unique weedy traits carried within their genomes, we are bringing agricultural weeds into the molecular labs and studying their biology and genetics. We are developing resources and techniques that enable us to conduct hypothesis-led research directly in the species of interest. Recent breakthroughs include methods to transiently alter gene expression and new genomic and genetic resources for weed species. This presentation discusses these advancements and how this data can inform innovative weed control."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Scientific Outputs talk to Waitrose DTP PhD students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gave a talk outlining the approach to commercialisation of academic research and route to generating a spin-out company. Provide a presentation and talk on the possible career options to PhD students in the Waitrose DTP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Seminar for AgriTech week, Nov 2024
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Seminar on surveillance and monitoring plant pathogens as part of integrated pest and disease management. The seminar was at Rothamsted Research on 7th November 2024.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/event/surveillance-and-monitoring-plant-protection

Description	Seminar to UFPel and Embrapa Temperate Agriculture
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	On 11/8/23 I was asked to present a seminar entitled "Unlocking the Secrets of Plant Growth to Secure Food Security" to the University Federal of Pelotas, Brazil and to Embrapa Temperate Agriculture, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Site visit - ADAS - Weeds Group
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Engaged with the site visit from ADAS Weeds group organised largely by the wider Rothamsted Weed Agro-Ecology team. Went to the different long-term experiments at Rothamsted and showed a subset of the group around the GM glasshouses where my experiments are underway.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Speak out training
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Training on speaking out and better delivering workshops
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Special seminar from Centre of Biotechnology - UFRGS/CBioT
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	on 9/8/23 I was invited to present a special seminar to the Centre of Biotechology and Fitotecnia Post-graduate programmes at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Allegre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Stakeholder event attended with Forest Research
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Stakeholder event attended with Forest Research, which was attended by several stakeholders (e.g. national trust, forestry commission) where we discussed potential considerations for the management of oak trees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Stakeholder meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Stakeholder event at Forest Research to discuss acute oak decline projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Stakeholder meeting with DEFRA on reporting back about the project and future research
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	DEFRA staff attended this meeting to hear about the BACSTOP project and discuss future research opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Sustainable Agriculture meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presenter at the Royal Entomological Society Sustainable Agriculture SIG meeting (Chemical ecology of chafer beetles).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/sustainable-agriculture-23/

Description	Syngenta Brazil visit: Capabilities in Chemical Ecology
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Syngenta Brazil visit to Rothamsted Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Syngenta Innovation Showcase
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Syngenta Innovation Showcase - Invitation only event to hear about research at Syngenta - hosted at SCI/lead to broader engagement with various scientists/industrialists
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Synthesis Drug Design & Discovery (Agrisciences contribution)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I help to organise an online conference on synthesis drug design and discovery
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023,2024

Description	Synthesis Drug Discovery /Design
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Annual virtual conference, with speakers from around the world - Chemistry talks - helps career/insight into field/advances
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Talk at International Society for Chemical Ecology (ISCE) meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jozsef Vuts, Gareth Thomas, Marine Cambon, James McDonald, John Caulfield, Sandra Denman: Chemical ecology of acute oak decline. ISCE meeting, 14-18 Jul 2024, Prague
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.isce2024.cz/

Description	Talk for Royal Entomological Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jozsef Vuts, John Caulfield, Mike Birkett: Investigating the aphid resistance mechanisms of ancient wheat. Royal entomological Society Aphid special interest group online meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.royensoc.co.uk/event/aphids-2024/

Description	Tour of New X-ray CT Scanning facilities Zhangdong Liu and Sen Li from Institute of Farmland Irrigation and representatives from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS).
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Tour of the new Rothamsted X-ray CT Scanning facilities; Potential investigations from soil physical properties, non-destructive root and above-ground morphological development, insect pest damage, fungal infection of cereal crops, morphological differences of cereal cultivars, mutant vs wild type differences. Also attended: Kamrun Suravi
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Training on how to run workshops
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Workshop on how to better deliver workshops/engagement with colleagues
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Trip to Embrapa Pelotas / Bage
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	As part of the trip to UFRGS, I also travelled to Embrapa Pelotas / Bage to meet with researchers, students, post-docs, as well as senior managers and scientists. I also presented an invited seminar to the joint seminar series of the Federal Univeristy of Pelotas and Embrapa - approxmiately 50-100 attendees were present. I have since been included in two proposals led by my host and have planned similar follow up activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	UK Civil Service Fast-stream programme _Nov 2023_Rothamsted
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	30 min talk + 10 min Q&A on global food security and the biotic threats encounter both historic and recent. Then focussed on the current biotic threats to the UK wheat crop and the types of research approaches ongoing in DFW and DSW to help to provide alternative pest and pathogen control strategies and novel targets for intervention. Also discussed various UK policies which are in place to effectively minimise the biotic threat risk, whilst pointing out that air borne threats pose are the most challenging for policy makers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	UK Fungal One Health Network Meeting 13th July 2023, Imperial College, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Presentation at UK Fungal One Health Network Meeting 13th July 2023, Imperial College, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	University of Edinburgh Seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited scientific seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Video on spore trapping
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	A video about our research using air sampling devices (spore traps) to detect and monitor plant pathogens and more broadly airborne eDNA as an indicator of biodiversity was made and broadcast by Rothamsted Research in November 2024 on various social media (LinkedIn, X, and YouTube) .
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jr85qfZ3Zg

Description	Visist of UM6P delegation to RRes for workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave oral presentation to delegates summarising opportunities to collaborate in plant pathology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Visit and discussion with ADAS
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A group visit from Rothamsted to ADAS to disseminate research findings and discuss future collaboration opportunities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2025

Description	Visit by AgriTechNZ/Investment NSW (28th Sept. 2023)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Dissemination activity
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Visit by North Carolina State University Plant Sciences Initiative, 29th Sept. 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To discussion collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Visit of Notts Uni undergraduate and postgraduate students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Series of talks given to visiting students (annual event)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Visit project collaborators (Argentina)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Visit and seminars to INTA and University of Buenos Aires for project meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Visited industrial collaborator labs
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Visited industrial collaborators laboratories to develop work plans and project applications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Weed Resistance Action Group meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion of national issues relating to herbicide resistance. Identification of issues needing to be raised with policy makers, and other issues needing dissemination to growers through the media and farming press
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Weed Resistance Action Group steering group meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A steering group meeting for the Weed Resistance Action Group Occurs twice annually.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/the-weed-resistance-action-group-wrag

Description	Weekly update and grant planning meetings
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Weekly planning meetings to discuss activities and plan grant applications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024,2025

Description	Welcome EBI Fungal Genomics Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Wellspring market evaluation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Engaged with Wellspring to undertake market research activities to determine possible commercial opportunities for the technologies currently being developed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	What's in my Lab? - Rothamsted outreach
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Participated in filming inside the Rothamsted labs to promote the work that we do.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://twitter.com/Rothamsted/status/1635249477283119104?s=20

Description	Women in Science - Rothamsted outreach
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Participated in filming for series of Tweets and videos for Women in Science and outreach events
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://twitter.com/Rothamsted/status/1624392950242242573?s=20

Description	Work on evolution of fungicide resistance in the Phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus lingam reported in Seed World
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	"Work on evolution of fungicide resistance in the Phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus lingam reported in Seed World: First Phoma Leaf Spot Resistance To Azole Fungicide Found in Western Europe - Seed World"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Work reported in Farmers weekly: Phoma resistance to azole fungicides found in western Europe - Farmers Weekly
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"Work on evolution of fungicide resistance in the Phoma stem canker fungus Plenodomus lingam reported in Farmers weekly: Phoma resistance to azole fungicides found in western Europe - Farmers Weekly"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Worked with Kavod Charter School through Planting Science Mentor Forum
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Worked with 5 students from Mr Kessler's class at Kavod Charter School on their Wonder of Seeds programme as an Expert Mentor for 2 months via the Planting Science https://plantingscience.org/ platform.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024
URL	https://plantingscience.org/

Description	Working Group committee meetings of the following eCOST Cost Actions: CA18226, CA21134, CA22102, CA22158, CA22129, CA22136, CA22142
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	The working group committee meetings involve discussions of scientific ideas with fellow scientists. A paper on bioaerosols was published as a result of the discussions and another one is in preparations and more are being discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Working Group, Research Capacity Strengthening: A Quick Guide for Researchers
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Contribution to Working Group to produce a Guide for Researchers on Effective Research Capacity Strengthening
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Effective%20RCS%20-%20A%20Quick%20Guide%20for%20Researc...

Description	Working group to deliver PCE station seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	A working group to deliver events aimed at bringing external speakers to RRes has been formed. We have also secured IAA funding
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Workshop at Embrapa Biotechnology and Genetic Resources
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop organised to explore the potential for collaborative reserach projects between Rothamsted Research, Embrapa and Brazillian Universities. The core group meet at in 2017 at this original project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	YES24 Competition
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	YES24 - is a commercialisation training/we had to present a business case to target panel/dragon den activity (pitching)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Zymoseptoria isolate sharing and Fungicide sensitivity testing with Globachem
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Fungicide sensitivity data from the cropping transitions exp new Zymoseptoria collection
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024