Members
CIRRE is led by Professor Jamie Newbold, Dr John Healey, and as well as 61 academic members, CIRRE has a number of directly funded Chairs and Researchers, their contact details and research interests are below.
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Environmental governance; rural-urban interactions; sustainable development; socio-cultural attachment |
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School of Biological Sciences | Nervous system development in Drosophila - Drosophila as a model for neurological diseases |
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Sustainable land use, particularly in the tropics, encompassing agronomy, crop physiology, agroforestry, rural development and most recently, effects of urbanization on peri-urban land use. |
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Resolving the molecular mechanisms underpinning anthelmintic resistance in livestock: developing functional genomics approaches to support vaccine, drug and diagnostic discovery in liver fluke and nematode parasites of sheep and cattle |
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Population genetics of tree species; genetic control of commercially-important traits of tree species, particularly wood properties |
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Molecular analysis of population structure; use of ancient DNA to study long-term environmental change; evolution of adaptive variation; fisheries genetics and conservation; traceability of fish and fisheries forensics; Molecular Identification, DNA Barcoding and Phylochips |
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Environmental economics, with particular specialisation in the choice modelling and contingent valuation environmental valuation approaches |
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Marine meiofaunal biodiversity metagenetics/metagenomics and ecosystem processes, DNA barcoding, mitogenomics and environmental genomics, population genetics and invertebrate ecology/evolution. |
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| Dr Paul Cross | |
School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography | Sustainable development |
| Prof Tom DeLuca | |
Forest ecology, soils and nutrient cycling |
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Grazing ecology and entomology” to “Upland grazing ecology, role of biodiversity in ecosystem processes and response to environmental change |
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Development of generic, high throughput phenotyping methodologies, based on global metabolite analysis (metabolomics), from a technology perspective, for use in a range of fields. |
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Enzymology of soil, particularly in wetlands |
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Spatiotemporal scaling of ecological processes; theoretical ecology |
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All aspects of tourism and recreation, but focusing particularly on sustainable tourism, ecotourism and heritage tourism |
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Ecological modelling; climate change adaptation and mitigation |
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Root biology; forest ecology |
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Environmental genomics |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Ecology of grassland fungi; cacao pathology; |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Interrogation of trophic interactions including insect-plant, plant-plant and plant-decomposition processes. |
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Sheep breeding and reproduction, including development of AI and embryo transfer in sheep, reproductive physiology and the development of breeding schemes |
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Land use planning and environmental risk management, GIS, farm management, agronomy |
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Ecology and management of forests and agroforestry systems; restoration ecology; |
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Marine benthic ecology, focussing on gaining a quantitative understanding of the effect of disturbance (such as exploitation and climate change) on the biodiversity and functioning of marine benthic communities, and how such effects can be mitigated. |
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Plant-soil biology, with particular emphasis on carbon and nitrogen cycling |
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| Dr Neal Hockley | |
School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography | Environmental economics and policy |
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Primary plant metabolism, focussing on the course of seed germination and development. The ultimately aim is to understand the metabolic forces regulating the transition from heterotrophy to autotrophy in plants |
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Causes and consequences of genetic exchange; exchange between populations through gene flow, exchange between organisms through sex and exchange between genes through recombination. |
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Utilisation of spreadsheet and database technology as decision making tools for rural businesses |
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Conservation Biology and management of wildlife resources. |
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Plant-soil-microbe interactions; environmental pollution, human pathogens, dissolved organic nitrogen, soil quality, freshwater pollution. |
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Ecosystem effects of fishing; sustainable aquaculture; disturbance ecology and socio-economic and biological issues relevant to coastal systems management |
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Organic farming production methods, environmental and sustainability benchmarking, organic supply chains |
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Use of remote sensing data (e.g., SAR, hyperspectral and lidar) for mapping and quantifying changes in the species/community composition, biomass and structure of tropical and subtropical forests and woodlands (including mangroves) in relation to anthropogenic land use and climate change |
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Bird song, sexual selection & molecular ecology; genetic diversity – measurement & maintenance |
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School of Biological Sciences | Environmental microbiology | |
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Soil conservation and fertility, impacts of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on forest ecosystems, restoration forestry, participatory and on-farm research, buffer-zone management, nutrient cycling. |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Animal and equine science |
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| Dr John Mulley | |
School of Biological Sciences | Developmental genetics and genome evolution |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Developing understanding of the genetic and biochemical events which influence various forms of resistance to pathogens in plants or how disease conditions are promoted by the invading organisms |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Equine reproduction |
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Dynamics of nearshore eddy systems and their role in sediment transport and dispersal. Inter-annual variability of morphological features. |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Understanding and manipulation of gut ecosystems to improve animal productivity while reducing the environmental impact of animal husbandry |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Agriculture and land management |
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| Justin Pachebat | |
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences | Microbial genomics |
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Developing evidence-based practice in conservation and environmental management |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Hormonal and developmental responses to environmental stresses in plants, especially the role of salicylic acid in temperature stresses |
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Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences | Soil ecology and function; remediation of disturbed / contaminated soils; impacts of pollution on biological processes; land use impacts on soil quality; soils and wastes; Soil C – physics interactions |
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School of Biological Sciences | Nervous system development in Drosophila |
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Agroforestry |
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Molecular markers in plants; analysis and selection of quantitative traits; variety authentication; participatory breeding methods. |
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Spatial and landscape ecology |
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Ecological and Environmental Chemical Research |
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Growth Mechanics; nutrient and metabolite distribution; pressure sensitive processes; "cell maps" of stressed plant; functional mapping of gene expression at single cell resolution; fine scale mapping of the soil / rhizosphere; metabolomic profiling of fruit and vegatables |
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Plant ecology with research interests in the maintenance of diversity and enhancement of conservation value particularly within agricultural ecosystems |
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Physiological adjustments to environmental change in aquatic organisms: mechanisms and ecological implications' |
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Risk assessment studies on the release of genetically modified crops.; cryptic introgression of paternal DNA during parasexual hybridization; novel approaches for genetic characterisation and utilisation of wild germplasm molecular genetics of cocoa |
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Human pathogens (especially E. coli O157) - their survival and activity in different environments; alternative treatment or disposal methods for agricultural and food-production wastes e.g. fallen stock and abattoir wastes. |
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Farmer participation in development of agricultural technologies; participatory plant breeding and participatory varietal selection; plant breeding; marker-assisted selection; agricultural biodiversity |
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post-exponential phase gene expression in several Gram-positive bacteria, including Bacillus and Clostridium; mechanism of action of secreted bacterial growth factors and their applications for TB protection and therapy. |