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Cluster people

Professor Robin Allaby

Professor

Cluster co-Lead

Dr Ed Smith

Assistant Professor

Cluster co-Lead

Dr Fabrizio Alberti

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Professor Gary Bending

Deputy Head (Academic)

Dr Pedro Cabello-Yeves

Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow

Professor Isabelle Carre

Professor
Circadian rhythms in plants

Dr Sarah Cook

Assistant Professor

Interdisciplinary environmental scientist. Global Carbon Cycle. Freshwater Ecosystems. Tropical peat. Citizen Science. Water quality.

Dr Orin Courtenay

Associate Professor (Reader)

Dr Rob Huckstepp

Professor Miriam Gifford

Head of School
Root-endosphere-symbiosis interactions and circadian-shaping of nodulation

Dr Erin Gorsich

Reader

A disease ecologist interested in host-parasite interactions and their consequences for human, animal, and environmental health.

Dr Rob Huckstepp

Professor Murray Grant

Elizabeth Creak Chair in Food Security

Professor Matt Keeling

Professor, Director of the Zeeman Institute (SBIDER)

An epidemiologist with interests in epidemiological modelling and prediction for science informed policy, works on a range of infections from COVID to influenza to measles to foot-and-mouth disease

Dr Beatriz Lagunas

Assistant Professor

Molecular plant biologist, focussed on lipid biosynthesis and legume symbiosis

Dr Rob Huckstepp

Mr Robert Lillywhite

Associate Professor

Dr Bruno Martins

Assistant Professor

Dr Michaela Mausz

Research Fellow

Dr Ryan Mushinski

Associate Professor Microbial Biogeochemistry
Dr Rob Huckstepp

Dr Stephen Parnell

Associate Professor

Dr Richard Puxty

Assistant Professor

Dr Mojgan Rabiey

Assistant Professor

Molecular plant pathologist, focusing on host-microbe interaction and biological control of crop and tree diseases using bacteriophages

Dr Rob Huckstepp

Professor David Scanlan

Professor of Marine Microbiology

Professor Hendrik Schaefer

Professor

Microbial metabolism of trace gases, C1-compounds, and pollutants with relevance for climate regulation and air quality. Marine microbiology and plant-microbial interactions.

Dr Jacqueline Stroud

Assistant Professor

Professor Michael Tildesley

Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute

Dr Thomas Walker

Associate Professor

A medical entomologist focussing on using naturally occurring Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria to reduce transmission of vector-borne diseases

Professor John Walsh

Emeritus Professor

Professor Elizabeth Wellington

Emeritus Professor

Research staff

Dr Javier Antunez Sanchez Dr Sinchan Banerjee

Dr Emily Breeze

Dr Pedro Cabello-Yeves

Dr Massimo Cavallaro

Dr Kelsey Cremin

Dr Ruma Debbarma

Dr Jack Dickenson

Dr Gizem Dimlioglu

Dr Said El-Hussan

Dr Shannon Greer

Dr Teri Hansford

Dr Arturo Hernandez-Colina

Dr Alina Igna

Dr Roseanne Maguire

Dr Alventina Mikahylina

Dr Andrew Murphy

Dr Emma Picot

Dr Rebecca Poon

Dr Panward Prasongpholchai

Dr Branko Rihtman

Dr Eleanora Silvano

Dr Erin Stroud

Dr Emma Travis

Dr Liam Walker

Dr Deying Wang

Dr Robert West

Dr Molly Williams

Dr Chao Ye

Dr Shuya Zhang