IBH Seminar: The place of barely in the animal feed industry

Speaker bio:

Dr Kevin Stickney has 40+ years involved in the animal feed industry largely as a commercial nutritionist. Both his under- and post-graduate degrees were completed in the 1970’s at the University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, and involved research studies with pigs. In the last 44 years Kevin has worked as a commercial nutritionist in the UK feed industry, moving from a specialisation in pig nutrition, then integrating poultry into a broader monogastric technical role. Currently Kevin is working for Harbro in a technical position with general over-sight as well as in a R&D capacity, expanding his brief to cover all commercial livestock species. The majority of his current activities have been related to working with home mixing producers where there is an essential need to understand arable production and optimal utilisation of home grown feed materials

  • IBH Seminar: The place of barely in the animal feed industry

    IBH Seminar: The place of barely in the animal feed industry

    Speaker bio: Dr Kevin Stickney has 40+ years involved in the animal feed industry largely as a commercial nutritionist. Both his under- and post-graduate degrees were completed in the 1970’s at the University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, and involved research studies with pigs. In the last 44 years Kevin has worked as a commercial…

  • IBH Seminar: Boosting plant regeneration accelerates wheat improvement

    IBH Seminar: Boosting plant regeneration accelerates wheat improvement

    Speaker Bios: I am a plant developmental and molecular biologist with a strong interest in crop improvement for sustainable agriculture. I graduated from the National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina with a degree in Biotechnology, and later with a PhD in Biological Sciences. In 2014 I joined the laboratory of Prof. Dubcovsky at UC Davis,…

  • IBH Seminar: Understanding the impact of drought on fungal resistance

    IBH Seminar: Understanding the impact of drought on fungal resistance

    Speaker Bios: Dr Chandana Pandey is plant physiologist with an interest in plant interactions with beneficial and/or pathogenic microbes. She completed her PhD in India and moved to Copenhagen University in 2018. Since then, she has worked at the UoC initially as a Postdoctoral researcher and now as an Assistant professor. Her work is focused…

  • IBH Seminar: Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota

    IBH Seminar: Structure, function and host control of the plant microbiota

    Speaker Bios: Davide Bulgarelli obtained a PhD in Crop Sciences at the University of Milan before leaving his native Italy for Germany, to take a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute of Cologne. This experience represented Davide’s first exposure to the plant microbiome, and it was “love at first sight”. In 2013 Davide secured…

  • IBH BCI Seminar: Barley chromatin and regulation of gene expression

    IBH BCI Seminar: Barley chromatin and regulation of gene expression

    Speaker Bios: Assoc prof. Ales Pecinka, Ph.D. is a group leader at the Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics of the Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He studies how epigenetic mechanisms contribute to the regulation of gene expression and maintenance of genome stability in barley and Arabidopsis. His major interest in…

  • IBH Seminar: Gene Hunting with Barley Mutants

    IBH Seminar: Gene Hunting with Barley Mutants

    Speaker Bios: Prof Dr Mats Hansson – “I am a bird watcher who started to study biology to learn that biology is more than birds. I found molecular biology to fit my mindset. Microbiology was the only option for advanced molecular biology when I was ready to start PhD studies. Therefore, I ended up writing…

  • IBH Seminar: Barley chromatin structural organisation during the mitosis

    IBH Seminar: Barley chromatin structural organisation during the mitosis

    Speaker Bios: Dr. Amanda Souza Câmara is a biophysicist. She did her PhD in Brazil at the University of São Paulo in computational modelling of protein structure and dynamics. Moving to a do a postdoc in Germany at the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), she entered the world of plant genetics…

  • IBH Seminar: Getting diversity into the mix crop mixtures as part of the sustainable farming toolkit

    IBH Seminar: Getting diversity into the mix crop mixtures as part of the sustainable farming toolkit

    Speaker Bios: Prof Rob Brooker is the head of the Ecological sciences department at the James Hutton Institute. Rob is a plant ecologist with over 25 years’ experience of ecological research. He has extensive experience of ecology in a wide range of environments, including arctic, montane, alpine, semi-arid and arable ecosystems, and currently undertakes research…

  • IBH Seminar: Exploring promising candidate genes for barley drought tolerance

    IBH Seminar: Exploring promising candidate genes for barley drought tolerance

    Speaker Bios: Dr Agata Daszkowska-Golec is an Associate Professor in Biology at University of Silesia in Katowice. Agata is a leader of the Plants Genetics and Functional Genomics Group and, since 2019 has been a Deputy Dean for Science Promotion and Internationalization at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice.…

  • IBH Seminar: Application of Genetic and Genomic Research in Cereals Breeding

    IBH Seminar: Application of Genetic and Genomic Research in Cereals Breeding

    Speaker Bios: Viktor Korzun has his BS in Agronomy & Breeding from the Belarussian Agricultural Academy and a PhD in Plant Genetics from the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Academy of Sciences of Belarus. He was a visiting scientist at Cambridge Laboratory, John Innes Centre for Plant Science Research, Norwich, UK and postdoctoral researcher at…