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Science contacts

If you have any queries regarding our research priorities or science areas, please use this list.

Research priorities

Research priority Area Contact Email Phone

Basic bioscience underpinning health (BBUH)

Lifelong health and wellbeing Louisa Jenkin louisa.jenkin@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413352

Food Security (FS)

Crop science Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Animal health Sadhana Sharma sadhana.sharma@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413099
Livestock production Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Soil science and agri-systems approaches Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Healthy food
see  Healthy and safe food
Simon Kerley simon.kerley@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413654
Safe food
see  Healthy and safe food
Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413669

Industrial biotechnology and bioenergy (IBB)

Bioenergy Michael Booth michael.booth@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 418013
Industrial biotechnology Feodora Rayner feodora.rayner@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414693

Exploiting new ways of working

Data driven biology Peter Burlinson peter.burlinson@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413393
  Synthetic biology Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206
  Systems approaches to the biosciences Peter Burlinson peter.burlinson@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413393
  Technology development for the biosciences Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206

Over-arching priorities

3Rs, and animal welfare Merewyn Loder merewyn.loder@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413283

Cross-Research Council programmes

Global Food Security Programme Riaz Bhunnoo riaz.bhunnoo@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 442194
  Global uncertainties Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
  Living with environmental change Jef Grainger jef.grainger@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413139
  Lifelong health and wellbeing Louisa Jenkin louisa.jenkin@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413352
  Energy
see  Bioenergy
Michael Booth michael.booth@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 418013

Science areas

Science area Contact Email Phone
Ageing Louisa Jenkin louisa.jenkin@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413352
Agriculture Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Animal diseases (excluding FBZ and TSEs) Sadhana Sharma sadhana.sharma@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413099
Animal welfare Merewyn Loder merewyn.loder@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413283
Bioenergy Michael Booth michael.booth@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 418013
Bioimaging Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206
Bioinformatics and e-Science Peter Burlinson peter.burlinson@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413393
Crop science Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Developmental biology Colin Miles colin.miles@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413359
Diet and health (humans) Simon Kerley simon.kerley@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414654
Environmental change Jef Grainger jef.grainger@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413139
Ecosystems including
agri-ecosystems
Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Food security Riaz Bhunnoo riaz.bhunnoo@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 442194
GM Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Industrial biotechnology Feodora Rayner feodora.rayner@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414693
Immunology Stephanie Williams-Blackwell stephanie.blackwell@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 442196
Microbial food safety Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Microbiology Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249
Nanotechnology Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206
Neuroscience and behaviour (including human psychology) Simon Kerley simon.kerley@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414654
Omic’s technologies: genomics, proteomics and metabolomics etc. Michael Ball michael.ball@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413282
Pharmaceuticals Ben Sykes
James Phillips
ben.sykes@bbsrc.ac.uk
james.phillips@bbsrc.ac.uk
01793 414676
01793 442149
Plant science Debbie Harding debbie.harding@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414653
Regenerative medicine Colin Miles colin.miles@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413359
Soil science Brian Harris
Jef Grainger
brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk
jef.grainger@bbsrc.ac.uk
01793 413249
01793 413139
Stem cells Colin Miles colin.miles@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413359
Structural biology Colin Miles colin.miles@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413359
Synthetic biology Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206
Systematics and taxonomy Amanda Read amanda.read@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 414665
Systems biology Peter Burlinson peter.burlinson@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413393
Technology and methods development Ceri Lyn-Adams ceri.lyn-adams@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413206
The 3 Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement of animals in research) Merewyn Loder merewyn.loder@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413283
TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) Brian Harris brian.harris@bbsrc.ac.uk 01793 413249