Brief CV for Dr. James K M Brown

James Brown studied for his Ph.D. at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, England, where he researched the population genetics of barley powdery mildew. He was appointed as a project leader at the John Innes Centre in 1989 and is currently associate head of the Department of Disease and Stress Biology. He has been an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia since 2006. In 1995, he began a programme of research on septoria tritici of wheat, in which he and his colleagues have studied the genetics of septoria resistance in current wheat varieties and have worked closely with the plant breeding industry to improve methods of breeding for resistance. As well as septoria, his current interests include improving methods of breeding barley for resistance to Ramularia and a long-term research programme on the adaptation of fungal pathogens to crops.