Added value and resilience
Lead Research Organisation:
Earlham Institute
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
Food and nutrition security requires safe access to affordable and nutritious food supplies. We aim to enhance grain quality for human health, combat non-communicable diet-related diseases and improve the resilience of wheat production systems to biotic stresses. It addresses two topics, with shared objectives across the Designing Future Wheat BBSRC Strategic Porgramme (DFW) and other Rothamsted Research, John Innes Centre, Earlham Institute, Quadram Institute Bioscience and NIAB programmes. Both exploit previous BBSRC investments in germplasm resources and the latest genomic developments, to understand and manipulate the genes and pathways defining wheat grain composition and host resistance/susceptibility to pathogens/pests. We will dissect a range of traits exploiting the germplasm and other resources developed within DFW. These traits include resistance to a range of pathogens including yellow rusts.
Publications
Baggs E
(2017)
NLR diversity, helpers and integrated domains: making sense of the NLR IDentity.
in Current opinion in plant biology
Bailey PC
(2018)
Dominant integration locus drives continuous diversification of plant immune receptors with exogenous domain fusions.
in Genome biology
Gardiner LJ
(2019)
Integrating genomic resources to present full gene and putative promoter capture probe sets for bread wheat.
in GigaScience
Gardiner LJ
(2019)
Analysis of the recombination landscape of hexaploid bread wheat reveals genes controlling recombination and gene conversion frequency.
in Genome biology
Gardiner LJ
(2018)
Hidden variation in polyploid wheat drives local adaptation.
in Genome research
International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC)
(2018)
Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Jouet A
(2019)
Albugo candida race diversity, ploidy and host-associated microbes revealed using DNA sequence capture on diseased plants in the field.
in The New phytologist
Olohan L
(2018)
A modified sequence capture approach allowing standard and methylation analyses of the same enriched genomic DNA sample.
in BMC genomics
Watson A
(2018)
Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding.
in Nature plants
| Title | Circos plot: Chinese Spring Genome |
| Description | Circos plot displaying features of the TGACv1 CS42 genome assembly. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This design inspired a line of (unfortunately non-dishwasher safe) collectors plates and the Circolution Collage exhibited in Office 208, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK. |
| URL | https://github.com/krasileva-group/tgacv1-circos |
| Title | Collage: Circolution |
| Description | This artwork conveys and reminds of the pain and suffering that is the basis of wheat genomics. It shows the various stages from draft to final product, with additional detours. It is exhibited in office 208, Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UZ. Unfortunately, it is off limits to the general public. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This piece serves as a source of inspiration during the long days and nights of wheat genomics research. |
| URL | https://github.com/cschu/circolution/blob/master/circolution.jpg |
| Description | -We have used a collection of landrace bread wheats (the Watkins collection) sequenced by exome capture to explore the diversity of the large Nucleotide Binding Leucine Rich Repeat (NLR) family of plant intracellular immune receptors in the collection. -Illumina data from each wheat line have been assembled u. The resulting contigs have been aligned to their corresponding subgroups within the NLR family. Looking at subgroups that are expanded relative to other monocot species, we can demonstrate that further novel gene duplication events have occurred in specific lines of the Watkins collection. These lines potentially offer a reservoir of untapped genetic diversity for disease resistance. -We identified a downstream immune signalling pathway conserved in all terrestrial monocots and eudicots plants that has been lost independently and repeatedly in species that have transitioned back to water environment. This work highlighted sets of genes commonly lost among aquatic plants that are involved in broader immune response as well as in drought response (https://doi.org/10.1101/572560). Isolated and confirmed (by ITS) take-all from Rothamsted long term grassland experiments for genomic comparison to agricultural take-all collected from long term field experiments (in collaboration RRes) I- n order to understand what makes a plant pathogen we have been investigating the genomics of fungi occupying the wild niche of the wheat Take-all root fungus. An ITS diversity screen of root fungi isolated from Rothamsted long term field experiments has fungi from across the ascomycete (and basidiomycete) tree of life, including wild representatives of the Take-all fungus. Genome sequencing and comparative analyses are pending and we will use these data to address questions on the genetic signature of a root fungus as well as adaptation to an agricultural environment. |
| Exploitation Route | -The outcomes of this grant will be directly taken up by breeders for wheat improvement. -genomic data can be mined for usefull alleles that could be integrated into breeding programs -diversity understand the evolution and diversification of plant immune genes and fungal effectors. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| URL | https://designingfuturewheat.org.uk/ |
| Description | Breeders toolkit committee recently met at Bayer with eight other breeders to agree germplasm exchange between DFW researchers and the private sector |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Description | A member of the Science Board of the G20 wheat initiative set up by the G20 agricultural ministers to coordinate wheat research across the G20 countries |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | By coordinating wheat research to address food security issues across the G20 countries, it makes more effect use of the funding by G20 government agencies |
| Description | Meeting with Professor Lionel Clark (Chair of the Synthetic Biology Leadership Council) to discuss synbio strategy in Agrifood sector |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | 18-BTT: A PATHWAY TO THE EXPLOITATION OF EPIGENETIC VARIATION IN UK, US AND INTERNATIONAL BREEDING PROGRAMMES |
| Amount | £273,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S020942/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | A computational cloud framework for the study of gene families |
| Amount | £181,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/N023145/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2017 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Artificial intelligence and deep learning in image based crop phenomics for predicting seed quality |
| Amount | £99,034 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S507441/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | International Wheat Yield Partnership |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Responsive Mode |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/P019072/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Title | tandem |
| Description | Software to find head-to-head gene pairs in a genome |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This tool allowed to elucidate the role of head-to-head gene pairs in the formation of integrated domain fusions (cf. Bailey et al, 2018 Genome Biology) |
| URL | https://github.com/krasileva-group/tandem |
| Title | Watkins core collection re-sequencing data |
| Description | Re-sequence data for the Watkins collection |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | International collabration |
| URL | https://grassroots.tools/data/under_license/toronto/ |
| Title | Wheat Expression |
| Description | The majority of RNA-seq expression studies in plants remain underutilised and inaccessible due to the use of disparate transcriptome references and the lack of skills and resources to analyse and visualise this data. We have developed expVIP, an expression Visualisation and Integration Platform, which allows easy analysis of RNA-seq data combined with an intuitive and interactive interface. Users can analyse public and user-specified datasets with minimal bioinformatics knowledge using the expVIP virtual machine. This generates a custom web browser to visualise, sort and filter the RNA-seq data and provides outputs for differential gene expression analysis. We demonstrate expVIP's suitability for polyploid crops and evaluate its performance across a range of biologically-relevant scenarios. To exemplify its use in crop research we developed a flexible wheat expression browser (www.wheat-expression.com) which can be expanded with user-generated data in a local virtual machine environment. The open-access expVIP platform will facilitate the analysis of gene expression data from a wide variety of species by enabling the easy integration, visualisation and comparison of RNA-seq data across experiments. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database provides open access to over 400 RNAseq studies in wheat and the underlying algorithms are all available to adapt to any species with a reference genome. Over 11,000 sessions from >5,000 and >50,000 pageviews |
| URL | http://www.wheat-expression.com |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | This website provides background information and practical resources to help both budding wheat scientists as well as researchers looking to expand their work into wheat. There is a need to improve crops to feed the world's growing population with the backdrop of climate change. Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge. However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and cannot substitute teaching aids. This is also true for more complex topics such as the genomics aspect of wheat. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | >4,500 sessions from >2,700 users |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Title | Wheat reTILLING |
| Description | Rebuild of the Wheat TILLING resource using novel technologies (DRAGEN BioIT Processor + custom software) based on the new wheat reference genome (RefSeq 1.0) and TGAC/Earlham Institute cultivar-specific genome references. This is a collaboration between Earlham Institute, Rothamsted Research, John Innes Centre and UC Davis. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | When the output will be available (within 2018), then it will replace the original Wheat TILLING data and continue to be of use for researchers and breeders. Variant annotation will be hosted by EnsEMBL Plants. |
| Title | promoter exon capture data |
| Description | The data contain the design space for the promoter and exon used in our capture |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Whole genome shotgun re-sequencing of wheat is expensive because of its large, repetitive genome. Moreover, sequence data can fail to map uniquely to the reference genome making it difficult to unambiguously assign variation. Re-sequencing using target capture enables sequencing of large numbers of individuals at high coverage to reliably identify variants associated with important agronomic traits. We present two gold standard capture probe sets for hexaploid bread wheat, a gene and a promoter capture, which are designed using recently developed genome sequence and annotation resources. The captures can be combined or used independently. The capture probe sets effectively enrich the high confidence genes and promoters that were identified in the genome alongside a large proportion of the low confidence genes and promoters. We use a capture design employing an 'island strategy' to enable analysis of the large gene/promoter space of wheat with only 2x160 Mb NimbelGen probe sets. Furthermore, these assays extend the regions of the wheat genome that are amenable to analyses beyond its exome, providing tools for detailed characterization of these regulatory regions in large populations. Here, we release the targeted sequence of the capture probe sets on the wheat RefSeqv1, the design space that was used to tile our capture probes across and finally the positions of the probes themselves across this design space for both the gene and promoter capture probe sets. |
| URL | https://opendata.earlham.ac.uk/wheat/under_license/toronto/Gardiner_2018-07-04_Wheat-gene-promoter-c... |
| Description | A meeting between CIMMYT and DFW funded by BMGF to discuss collaboration projects |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I organised a meeting funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation brought together members of the BBSRC's coordinated wheat programme (Designing Future Wheat) with members of CIMMYT (who breed wheat for the resource poor in the developing world), discuss potential opportunities for interaction. These opportunities are taken forward by writing proposals for Newton , GCRF or IWYP funding calls |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | This interaction is still ongoing between members of BBSRC's coordinated wheat programme (Designing Future Wheat) and researchers within CIMMYT with proposals being written for IWYP and Newton calls |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | KWS Harnessing wild sugar beet diversiy |
| Organisation | KWS Group |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge of the wild and agricultural beet rust pathosystem combined with NGS expertise meant that we could put together PhD proposal which offered an opportunity to be able to develop new methods which could help identify novel pathogen resistance directly in wild hosts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | KWS provided input to the project design have promised significant resource (cost and in kind) to allow controlled trials and sequencing to take place. KWS have also granted access to the use of their labs for cloning and other biotechnology. |
| Impact | This collaboration resulted in a successful PhD iCASE application which will begin later 2019. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Punjab Agricultural University |
| Organisation | Punjab Aricultural University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Know how on wheat genomics and genetics, training. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Gernplasm, local knowledge |
| Impact | Have helped partners implement marker technology. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Title | EMBER - GlutenSeq Pipeline |
| Description | Pipeline for processing of GlutenSeq data. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This pipeline allows the analysis and downstream processing of sequencing data obtained via targeted Gluten gene captures. |
| Title | Galaxy id_fusion pipeline |
| Description | Galaxy implementation of integrated domain fusion detection pipeline (cf. Sarris et al, 2016 BMC Biology) |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Tool available for use on Galaxy platforms. |
| URL | https://github.com/krasileva-group/id_fusion |
| Title | Royal Dragen |
| Description | Royal dragen is a software developed by Dr. Rob King (Rothamsted Research) and Dr. Christian Schudoma (Earlham Institute). The software allows to perform variant filtering on Dragen-generated variant calls. The software was designed to mimic the behaviour of MAPS in wheat tilling experiments (cf. Krasileva et al., PNAS 2017). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The software, together with the Dragen BioIT processor allows to significantly speed up tilling analyses on wheat exome capture data. |
| URL | https://github.com/cschu/royal_dragen |
| Title | scvep - super cereal variant effect predictor |
| Description | This software allows effect prediction of single nucleotide polymorphisms without a reference annotation. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software was used to filter wheat candidate lines for (virus?) resistance in a collaboration with IPK Gatersleben, Germany. |
| URL | https://github.com/krasileva-group/scvep |
| Title | tandem |
| Description | Software to detect (head-to-head) gene pairs (tandems) in a genome. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This software allowed to analyse whether gene tandems might play a role in the formation of integrated domain fusions (cf. Bailey et al, 2018, Genome Biology) |
| Description | Bioinformatics for Breeding |
| 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 practical course featured a collection of methods and bioinformatics tools fundamental for modern breeding, especially for crops. Next generation sequencing (NGS) has made large collections of open-source diversity genomic data possible, such as SNPs, that can be used as molecular markers for breeding. Combined with phenotypes, genome-wide association studies provide breeders with an understanding of the molecular basis of complex traits. Content: SNP calling/discovery and SNPs effects and context; NGS techniques for genotyping; Genetic markers, linkage analysis, and genetic maps; High-throughput phenotyping and image analysis; Association mapping (GWAS); Genome-wide predictions, modelling and simulations; Genomic selection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.earlham.ac.uk/bioinformatics-breeding |
| Description | Conference organiser of PAG San Diego attracting 3800 plant and animal researchers |
| 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 | I am on the organising committee of the largest plant and animal ag genomics conference attracting some 3800 researchers, policy makers, industry etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Conference talk at Galaxy Community Conference 2016, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented Galaxy implementation of Integrated Domain Fusion pipeline to Galaxy community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| 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 | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | DFW Presentation to DEFRA chief science advisor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A discussion of the outcomes and impact of WISP and DFW programmes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| 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 | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Elixir industry all hands 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 | meeting to discuss how elixir can benefit industry and how industry can engage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Feature article on genomics in the Easton Daily Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Article was to cover the research activity at the Earlham Institute and at the Norwich Research park and how it would impact the general public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | German Plant Breeding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | German Plant Breeding Society: keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| 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 | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker: Sheffield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to the Sheffield departmental seminar series to talk about ash dieback invasions and sugar beet rust experiments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited talk: From tracking Arabidopsis RNAs to exploring the wheat genome - A journey through plant bioinformatics. Evolution Seminars IOE and EEB joint seminar program, University of Haifa, Israel, April 18, 2016. Hosted by Prof. Tzion Fahima |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | People were introduced into the complex and versatile world of plant bioinformatics, into how methods from other bioinformatics areas can be used for problems in plant-pathogen and crop bioinformatics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JIC Science Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at JIC Science Innovation Showcase with over 100 industry representatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Innes Centre open day to the public |
| 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 | To show the general public plant science research in practise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| 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 | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | MSc on Wheat Yield |
| 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 | MSc course on Wheat Yield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | Member of the board of the G20 wheat initative |
| 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 am a board member of the G20 wheat initiative set up by the G20 agricultural ministers to facilitate coordination of wheat research in the G20 countries. We organise working group to facilitate such coordination, and to identify priorities for funding by funding agencies within the G20 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Member of the management board of CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARD) to breed wheat for the resource-poor in the developing World |
| 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 | A management board member of CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARD) to breed wheat for the resource-poor in the developing World |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Norfolk forum Science festival |
| 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 | To provide the general public with an insight into plant science research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Oral presentation at conference: Training on Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding, University of Bologna, Italy |
| 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 | Oral presentation at training conference to educate and train breeders, farmers and students in bioinformatic techniques for the analysis of wheat genomics data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.wheatinitiative.org/events/durum-ewg-workshop-bioinformatics-advance-wheat-breeding |
| Description | Organisation a day workshop at Eucarpia meeting , Clermont_Ferrand Paris, with INRA (French) and Proweizen (German ) and CIMMYT 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 | The worship was to discuss possible collaborations which could lead to bids into the EU for funding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Poster Presentation Schudoma C, Clark M, and Krasileva KV. It's a grass, grass, grass - Profiling plant gluten genes with targeted resequencing and bioinformatics, Genome 10K and Genome Science Conference, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK, August 29-31, 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | People were introduced to the discovery of the "dark glutenome", i.e. non-canonical gluten loci found in hexaploid wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poster Presentation Schudoma C, Raats D, Bailey P, Gordon L, Stitt T, and Krasileva KV. Taming the beast - Overcoming the challenges in working with complex plant genomes, ISMB 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 8-12, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | People were made aware that large plant genomes are a challenge and that this can be tackled by better algorithms, use of unconventional hardware (first use of DRAGEN BioIT processor, which was originally developed for human diagnostics, for plant genomics). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at the conference for the UK Millers and bakers (NABIM-london) on DFW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Was asked to provide further information on the coordinated DFW programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on DFW at the DEFRA stakeholders WGIN meeting at RRES |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Request for more information on the programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to ACC1 Cereals and Grains conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was to inform the cereal grain (rice, maize and wheat) processes community on the step change which has occurred in wheat research and the involvement of WISP/DFW in the step change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to the BBSRC legume community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was to describe how the UK coordinated wheat programme was put together, and the impact the programme has had on the step change which has occurred in wheat research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to the BBSRC rice community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation described how the coordinated WISP/DFW UK wheat programme was put together, and the impact the programme has had on the step change which has occurred in wheat research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Scientific Soft Skills 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 | Scientific Soft Skills workshop in Cairo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | State of the World'd Fungi. Report contribution. 8 Plant-killers: Fungal threats to ecosystems |
| 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 | The report follows two previous reports by Kew on the State of the World's plants. This report is aimed to educate and inform a more general audience on the importance of fungi and all of the different roles they can play in everyday life. The report release gained a lot of media attention and raised peoples awareness of the many roles of fungi |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://stateoftheworldsfungi.org/ |
| Description | Talk and discussion with Elsoms seeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The talk was to breeders and crop scientist work at Elsoms seed, The aim was to raise awareness of the work that Design future wheat and my group were doing. This lead to a letter of support for our BBSRC grant and a line of communication with their wheat and brassica breeders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course (last year course PLL1) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci 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 | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | member of the G20 wheat Initiative Science board during 2019 |
| 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 | The members of the science board discuss how to better coordinate the wheat research activities in the G20 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | member of the management board of the CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARDA) to breed wheat for the resource poor in the developing world |
| 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 offer advice to the management team of the wheat CGIAR programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | member of the organising committee for PAG 2020 |
| 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 | Suggest plenary speakers for inviting to speak at PAG 2020 meeting attracting 3000 animal and plant researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |