Academic staff in the School of Biosciences 

Professor Rob Jackson is an expert in bacteria-plant interactions, making major contributions to the understanding of how pathogens cause disease and how pathogens evolve to evade host immunity. He also has interests in applied biology questions relating to biocontrol approaches to treat plant diseases.

I am a Biology lecturer with interest in plants, evolution and the natural environment. In my research career I started our looking at individual root cells and how they expand (under high pressure if you want to know!), phloem and xylem transport and the interaction aphids.  Now as a director of Education for the BIFoR FACE experiment I look at whole oak trees and their ecosystems under ...