Dr Joel Milner

  • Reader (Molecular Biosciences)

telephone: 01413305836
email: Joel.Milner@glasgow.ac.uk

R322 Level 3, Life Sciences Biomolecular Sci, Bower Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295

Research interests

  • Plant-virus interactions
  • Host defence responses to virus infection
  • Defence signaling in response to pathogen infection in plants
  • Counter-defence strategy by viruses

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
Number of items: 33.

2024

Keating, C. , Kilbride, E., Stalham, M. A., Nellist, C., Milner, J. , Humphris, S., Toth, I. , Mable, B. K. and Ijaz, U. Z. (2024) Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities. Microbiome, 12, 210. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01918-6)

2021

Chai, R., Rooney, W. M. , Milner, J. J. and Walker, D. (2021) Challenges of using protein antibiotics for pathogen control. Pest Management Science, 77(9), pp. 3836-3840. (doi: 10.1002/ps.6312) (PMID:33527621)

Rooney, W. , Laird, J., Chowdhury, M., MacIntosh, C., Deng, X., McBride, P. and Milner, J. (2021) Pseudomonas syringae seed infections. [Protocols]

2020

Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)

Rooney, W. M. , Chai, R., Milner, J. L. and Walker, D. (2020) Bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria: plantibiotics of the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 575981. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575981) (PMCID:PMC7530242)

Rooney, W. M. , Grinter, R. W., Correia, A., Walker, D. C. and Milner, J. J. (2020) Engineering bacteriocin-mediated resistance against the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(5), pp. 1296-1306. (doi: 10.1111/pbi.13294) (PMID:31705720) (PMCID:PMC7152609)

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)

2019

The University Court Of The University of Glasgow (2019) Bacterial pathogen derived resistance in plants. .

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288) (PMID:31549842)

2017

Hafrén, A., Macia, J.-L., Love, A. J., Milner, J. J. , Drucker, M. and Hofius, D. (2017) Selective autophagy limits cauliflower mosaic virus infection by NBR1-mediated targeting of viral capsid protein and particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(10), E2026-E2035. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610687114) (PMID:28223514) (PMCID:PMC5347569)

2016

Grinter, R. et al. (2016) Structure of the bacterial plant-ferredoxin receptor FusA. Nature Communications, 7, 13308. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13308) (PMID:27796364) (PMCID:PMC5095587)

Bailey, M. et al. (2016) Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation inArabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(1), pp. 353-363. (doi: 10.1093/jxb/erv468) (PMID:26494731) (PMCID:PMC4682439)

2014

Grinter, R., Josts, I., Zeth, K., Roszak, A. W., McCaughey, L. C. , Cogdell, R. J. , Milner, J. J. , Kelly, S. M., Byron, O. and Walker, D. (2014) Structure of the atypical bacteriocin pectocin M2 implies a novel mechanism of protein uptake. Molecular Microbiology, 93(2), pp. 234-246. (doi: 10.1111/mmi.12655) (PMID:24865810) (PMCID:PMC4671253)

McCaughey, L. C. et al. (2014) Lectin-like bacteriocins from Pseudomonas spp. utilise D-rhamnose containing lipopolysaccharide as a cellular receptor. PLoS Pathogens, 10(2), e1003898. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003898) (PMID:24516380) (PMCID:PMC3916391)

2013

Laird, J. et al. (2013) Identification of the domains of cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 responsible for suppression of RNA silencing and salicylic acid signalling. Journal of General Virology, 94(12), pp. 2777-2789. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.057729-0) (PMID:24088344) (PMCID:PMC3836500)

Grinter, R., Milner, J. and Walker, D. (2013) Beware of proteins bearing gifts: protein antibiotics that use iron as a Trojan horse. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 338(1), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12011)

2012

Grinter, R., Roszak, A.W., Cogdell, R.J. , Milner, J.J. and Walker, D. (2012) The crystal structure of the lipid II-degrading bacteriocin syringacin M suggests unexpected evolutionary relationships between colicin M-like bacteriocins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(46), pp. 38876-38888. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.400150)

Grinter, R., Milner, J. and Walker, D. (2012) Ferredoxin containing bacteriocins suggest a novel mechanism of iron uptake in Pectobacterium spp. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33033. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033033) (PMID:22427936) (PMCID:PMC3302902)

Love, A.J., Geri, C., Laird, J., Carr, C., Yun, B.-W., Loake, G.J., Tada, Y., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2012) Cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 inhibits signaling responses to salicylic acid and regulates innate immunity. PLoS ONE, 7(10), e47535. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047535) (PMID:23071821) (PMCID:PMC3469532)

2009

Love, A.J., Milner, J.J. and Sadanandom, A. (2009) Response to Cacas and Diamond: is the autophagy machinery an executioner of programmed cell death in plants? Trends in Plant Science, 14(6), pp. 300-301. (doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.02.009)

2008

Love, A.J., Milner, J.J. and Sadanandom, A. (2008) Timing is everything: regulatory overlap in plant cell death. Trends in Plant Science, 13(11), pp. 589-595. (doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.08.006)

Love, A.J., Geri, C., Laird, J., Yun, B.W., Loake, G.J., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2008) Cauliflower mosaic virus P6 protein suppresses SA-dependent defense responses in Arabidopsis. In: Lorito, M., Woo, S.L. and Scala, F. (eds.) Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Volume 6. International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: St. Paul, MN, USA. ISBN 9780965462556

2007

Love, A.J., Laird, J., Holt, J., Hamilton, A.J., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 is a suppressor of RNA silencing. Journal of General Virology, 88(12), pp. 3439-3444. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.83090-0) (PMID:18024914)

Love, A. J., Laval, V., Geri, C., Laird, J., Tomos, A.D., Hooks, M.A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Components of Arabidopsis defense- and ethylene-signaling pathways regulate susceptibility to Cauliflower mosaic virus by restricting long-distance movement. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20, pp. 659-670. (doi: 10.1094/MPMI-20-6-0659)

Roberts, K., Love, A.J., Laval, V., Laird, J., Tomos, A.D., Hooks, M.A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Long-distance movement of Cauliflower mosaic virus and host defence responses in Arabidopsis follow a predictable pattern that is determined by the leaf orthostichy. New Phytologist, 175, pp. 707-717. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02136.x)

2006

Ermolina, I., Milner, J. and Morgan, H. (2006) Dielectrophoretic investigation of plant virus particles: Cow Pea Mosaic Virus and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Electrophoresis, 27, pp. 3939-3948. (doi: 10.1002/elps.200500928)

2005

Love, A., Martin, T., Graham, I. and Milner, J. (2005) Carbohydrate partitioning and sugar signalling in Cauliflower mosaic virus-infected turnip and Arabidopsis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 67, pp. 83-91. (doi: 10.1016/j.pmpp.2005.09.007)

Love, A., Yun, B., Laval, V., Loake, G. and Milner, J. (2005) Cauliflower mosaic virus, a compatible pathogen of Arabidopsis, engages three distinct defense-signaling pathways and activates rapid systemic generation of reactive oxygen species. Plant Physiology, 139, pp. 935-948. (doi: 10.1104/pp.105.066803)

2004

Geri, C., Love, A.J., Cecchini, E., Barrett, S.J., Laird, J., Covey, S.N. and Milner, J.J. (2004) Arabidopsis mutants that suppress the phenotype induced by transgene-mediated expression of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) gene VI are less susceptible to CaMV-infection and show reduced ethylene sensitivity. Plant Molecular Biology, 56, pp. 111-124.

Laird, J., Armengaud, P., Giuntini, P., Laval, V. and Milner, J.J. (2004) Inappropriate annotation of a key defence marker in Arabidopsis: will the real PR-1 please stand up? Planta, 219, pp. 1089-1092. (doi: 10.1007/s00425-004-1355-x)

2003

Ermolina, I., Morgan, H., Green, N.G., Milner, J.J. and Feldman, Y. (2003) Dielectric spectroscopy of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: General Subjects, 1622, pp. 57-63. (doi: 10.1016/S0304-4165(03)00118-1)

2002

Cecchini, E., Geri, C., Love, A., Coupland, G., Covey, S. and Milner, J. (2002) Mutations that delay flowering in Arabidopsis de-couple symptom response from cauliflower mosaic virus accumulation during infection. Molecular Plant Pathology, 3, pp. 81-90.

Laval, V., Koroleva, O., Murphy, E., Lu, C., Milner, J. , Hooks, M. and Tomos, A. (2002) Distribution of actin gene isoforms in the Arabidopsis leaf measured in microsamples from intact individual cells. Planta, 215, pp. 287-292. (doi: 10.1007/s00425-001-0732-y)

This list was generated on Thu Dec 5 05:34:05 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 33.

Articles

Keating, C. , Kilbride, E., Stalham, M. A., Nellist, C., Milner, J. , Humphris, S., Toth, I. , Mable, B. K. and Ijaz, U. Z. (2024) Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities. Microbiome, 12, 210. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01918-6)

Chai, R., Rooney, W. M. , Milner, J. J. and Walker, D. (2021) Challenges of using protein antibiotics for pathogen control. Pest Management Science, 77(9), pp. 3836-3840. (doi: 10.1002/ps.6312) (PMID:33527621)

Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)

Rooney, W. M. , Chai, R., Milner, J. L. and Walker, D. (2020) Bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria: plantibiotics of the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 575981. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575981) (PMCID:PMC7530242)

Rooney, W. M. , Grinter, R. W., Correia, A., Walker, D. C. and Milner, J. J. (2020) Engineering bacteriocin-mediated resistance against the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(5), pp. 1296-1306. (doi: 10.1111/pbi.13294) (PMID:31705720) (PMCID:PMC7152609)

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288) (PMID:31549842)

Hafrén, A., Macia, J.-L., Love, A. J., Milner, J. J. , Drucker, M. and Hofius, D. (2017) Selective autophagy limits cauliflower mosaic virus infection by NBR1-mediated targeting of viral capsid protein and particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(10), E2026-E2035. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610687114) (PMID:28223514) (PMCID:PMC5347569)

Grinter, R. et al. (2016) Structure of the bacterial plant-ferredoxin receptor FusA. Nature Communications, 7, 13308. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13308) (PMID:27796364) (PMCID:PMC5095587)

Bailey, M. et al. (2016) Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and -2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation inArabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(1), pp. 353-363. (doi: 10.1093/jxb/erv468) (PMID:26494731) (PMCID:PMC4682439)

Grinter, R., Josts, I., Zeth, K., Roszak, A. W., McCaughey, L. C. , Cogdell, R. J. , Milner, J. J. , Kelly, S. M., Byron, O. and Walker, D. (2014) Structure of the atypical bacteriocin pectocin M2 implies a novel mechanism of protein uptake. Molecular Microbiology, 93(2), pp. 234-246. (doi: 10.1111/mmi.12655) (PMID:24865810) (PMCID:PMC4671253)

McCaughey, L. C. et al. (2014) Lectin-like bacteriocins from Pseudomonas spp. utilise D-rhamnose containing lipopolysaccharide as a cellular receptor. PLoS Pathogens, 10(2), e1003898. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003898) (PMID:24516380) (PMCID:PMC3916391)

Laird, J. et al. (2013) Identification of the domains of cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 responsible for suppression of RNA silencing and salicylic acid signalling. Journal of General Virology, 94(12), pp. 2777-2789. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.057729-0) (PMID:24088344) (PMCID:PMC3836500)

Grinter, R., Milner, J. and Walker, D. (2013) Beware of proteins bearing gifts: protein antibiotics that use iron as a Trojan horse. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 338(1), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12011)

Grinter, R., Roszak, A.W., Cogdell, R.J. , Milner, J.J. and Walker, D. (2012) The crystal structure of the lipid II-degrading bacteriocin syringacin M suggests unexpected evolutionary relationships between colicin M-like bacteriocins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(46), pp. 38876-38888. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.400150)

Grinter, R., Milner, J. and Walker, D. (2012) Ferredoxin containing bacteriocins suggest a novel mechanism of iron uptake in Pectobacterium spp. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33033. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033033) (PMID:22427936) (PMCID:PMC3302902)

Love, A.J., Geri, C., Laird, J., Carr, C., Yun, B.-W., Loake, G.J., Tada, Y., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2012) Cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 inhibits signaling responses to salicylic acid and regulates innate immunity. PLoS ONE, 7(10), e47535. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047535) (PMID:23071821) (PMCID:PMC3469532)

Love, A.J., Milner, J.J. and Sadanandom, A. (2009) Response to Cacas and Diamond: is the autophagy machinery an executioner of programmed cell death in plants? Trends in Plant Science, 14(6), pp. 300-301. (doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.02.009)

Love, A.J., Milner, J.J. and Sadanandom, A. (2008) Timing is everything: regulatory overlap in plant cell death. Trends in Plant Science, 13(11), pp. 589-595. (doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.08.006)

Love, A.J., Laird, J., Holt, J., Hamilton, A.J., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Cauliflower mosaic virus protein P6 is a suppressor of RNA silencing. Journal of General Virology, 88(12), pp. 3439-3444. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.83090-0) (PMID:18024914)

Love, A. J., Laval, V., Geri, C., Laird, J., Tomos, A.D., Hooks, M.A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Components of Arabidopsis defense- and ethylene-signaling pathways regulate susceptibility to Cauliflower mosaic virus by restricting long-distance movement. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 20, pp. 659-670. (doi: 10.1094/MPMI-20-6-0659)

Roberts, K., Love, A.J., Laval, V., Laird, J., Tomos, A.D., Hooks, M.A. and Milner, J.J. (2007) Long-distance movement of Cauliflower mosaic virus and host defence responses in Arabidopsis follow a predictable pattern that is determined by the leaf orthostichy. New Phytologist, 175, pp. 707-717. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02136.x)

Ermolina, I., Milner, J. and Morgan, H. (2006) Dielectrophoretic investigation of plant virus particles: Cow Pea Mosaic Virus and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Electrophoresis, 27, pp. 3939-3948. (doi: 10.1002/elps.200500928)

Love, A., Martin, T., Graham, I. and Milner, J. (2005) Carbohydrate partitioning and sugar signalling in Cauliflower mosaic virus-infected turnip and Arabidopsis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 67, pp. 83-91. (doi: 10.1016/j.pmpp.2005.09.007)

Love, A., Yun, B., Laval, V., Loake, G. and Milner, J. (2005) Cauliflower mosaic virus, a compatible pathogen of Arabidopsis, engages three distinct defense-signaling pathways and activates rapid systemic generation of reactive oxygen species. Plant Physiology, 139, pp. 935-948. (doi: 10.1104/pp.105.066803)

Geri, C., Love, A.J., Cecchini, E., Barrett, S.J., Laird, J., Covey, S.N. and Milner, J.J. (2004) Arabidopsis mutants that suppress the phenotype induced by transgene-mediated expression of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) gene VI are less susceptible to CaMV-infection and show reduced ethylene sensitivity. Plant Molecular Biology, 56, pp. 111-124.

Laird, J., Armengaud, P., Giuntini, P., Laval, V. and Milner, J.J. (2004) Inappropriate annotation of a key defence marker in Arabidopsis: will the real PR-1 please stand up? Planta, 219, pp. 1089-1092. (doi: 10.1007/s00425-004-1355-x)

Ermolina, I., Morgan, H., Green, N.G., Milner, J.J. and Feldman, Y. (2003) Dielectric spectroscopy of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: General Subjects, 1622, pp. 57-63. (doi: 10.1016/S0304-4165(03)00118-1)

Cecchini, E., Geri, C., Love, A., Coupland, G., Covey, S. and Milner, J. (2002) Mutations that delay flowering in Arabidopsis de-couple symptom response from cauliflower mosaic virus accumulation during infection. Molecular Plant Pathology, 3, pp. 81-90.

Laval, V., Koroleva, O., Murphy, E., Lu, C., Milner, J. , Hooks, M. and Tomos, A. (2002) Distribution of actin gene isoforms in the Arabidopsis leaf measured in microsamples from intact individual cells. Planta, 215, pp. 287-292. (doi: 10.1007/s00425-001-0732-y)

Book Sections

Love, A.J., Geri, C., Laird, J., Yun, B.W., Loake, G.J., Sadanandom, A. and Milner, J.J. (2008) Cauliflower mosaic virus P6 protein suppresses SA-dependent defense responses in Arabidopsis. In: Lorito, M., Woo, S.L. and Scala, F. (eds.) Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Volume 6. International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: St. Paul, MN, USA. ISBN 9780965462556

Protocols

Rooney, W. , Laird, J., Chowdhury, M., MacIntosh, C., Deng, X., McBride, P. and Milner, J. (2021) Pseudomonas syringae seed infections. [Protocols]

Patents

The University Court Of The University of Glasgow (2019) Bacterial pathogen derived resistance in plants. .

This list was generated on Thu Dec 5 05:34:05 2024 GMT.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Exploiting bacteriocins as a prophylactic and preventative measure against Potato Blackleg Disease
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2024 - 2026
     
  • Developing a commercial bacteriocin-based treatment for protecting seed and ware potatoes against Blackleg disease and soft rot.
    Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre
    2023 - 2023
     
  • BBSRC IAA: Bacteriocin-based treatment for protecting seed and ware potatoes against Blackleg disease and soft rot.
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2023 - 2023
     
  • IRGA-Live Clamp: An integrated infrared gas-analysis platform to investigate systemic signalling within the plant canopy
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2022 - 2023
     
  • Developing a novel prophylactic seed treatment for Xanthomonas infections of crops
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2021 - 2022
     
  • How do free-living nematodes (FLN) interact with the microbial populations in soil?
    Wellcome Trust
    2021 - 2023
     
  • A Decision Support tool for Potato Blackleg Disease (DeS-BL)
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Exploiting bacteriocins for plant protection against pathogenic bacteria
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2019 - 2021
     
  • Mapping the mesoscale structural landscape using "sculpted" chiral plasmonic fields
    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    2016 - 2019
     
  • Mapping the mesoscale structural landscape using "sculpted" chiral plasmonic fields
    James Hutton Institute
    2016 - 2019
     
  • A novel mechanism of protein uptake in Gram-negative bacteria
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2014 - 2018
     
  • Defence and defence suppression in plant pathogen interactions - the role of CaMV protein P6
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2006 - 2009
     
  • Characterization of a novel rapid response elicited in Arabidopsis by a compatible plant pathogen
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2005 - 2008
     

Additional information

Editorial Board

  • 2000 - 2004: Molecular Plant Pathology

Grant Advisory Board

  • 2005 - 2006: BBSRC - Member of Microbial Sciences Review Committee
  • 2003 - 2007: BBSRC - Member of Plant and Microbial Science Committee

Invited International Presentations

  • 2007: Bath, England - British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting - Attack and Defence in Plant Disease
  • 2004: Glasgow, Scotland - Organiser, Biochemical Society focused meeting - 'Plant Signalling, From Genes to Biochemistry'

Professional Learned Society

  • 2009 - present: Association of Applied Biologists - Member of Virus Committee
  • 2007 - present: American Society for Plant Pathology
  • 2006: American Society for Plant Biology
  • 1997 - present: Society for Experimental Biology
  • 1981 - present: Society for General Microbiology - Member of Virology Committee from 2010