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We welcome four new people at Warwick Crop Centre working with John Clarkson:

Rosanne Maguire is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Asssociate with Elsoms Seeds who will be learning plant pathology techniques to embed in the company in order to improve selection methods for disease resistant crop varieties. Rosanne has just completed a Masters course at the John Innes Centre.

Kat Hales is an HDC funded PhD student who will be carrying out the project 'Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae to enable disease management'. P. violae causes cavity spot of carrot and Kat was previously an undergraduate at the University of Exeter. She will be co-supervised by Gary Bending.

Sascha Jenkins is a BBSRC (HAPI) funded PhD student who will be working on the project 'Examining identity, phylogeny and pathogenicity factors in Fusarium species affecting pea'. The PhD is part of the HAPI project 'Exploiting next generation sequencing technologies to understand pathogenicity and resistance in Fusarium oxysporum' with Hazera Seeds and HDC as industrial partners. Sascha was an undergraduate at the University of Warwick.

Zofia Garajova is a Warwick/BASF funded PhD student who will be working on a disease risk system for Sclerotinia. She is jointly supervsied by Andrew Mead at Rothamsted.

Three of the Midlands’ leading universities have been awarded £13 Million for a “Doctoral Training Partnership” to provide research training to support the Midlands bioeconomy.

The Partnership, led by University of Warwick, together with the University of Birmingham, and the University of Leicester, has received the award for their Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) which will train an additional 260 PhD research students over the next 5 years (130 will be funded directly by the BBSRC and 130 by matched-funding from the three universities).