Susan Seal’s projects:
Enabling Research Tools for Cassava and Yam Virologists and Breeders
2016-2024
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Using High-Throughput Sequencing indexing to strengthen the yam (Dioscorea spp.) seed systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
2019 – 2024
Royal Society International Collaboration Award
Transformative Research Technologies: Smart Materials for Equipment-Free Molecular Identification of Insect Pests and Viral Vectors
2021-2022
UKRI-BBSRC 2020 TDRF
Identification of mealybug vectors involved in the transmission of badnavirus infecting yam in Northern Nigeria
2019-2020
BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund: “CONNECTED” - Community network for African vector borne plant diseases award
Bio-ecology of and Host Plant Resistance to Bean Leaf Beetles
2016-2020
PEARL II NACRRI UGANDA (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Improving Response to Yam Badnaviruses Impacting Yam Growers in Northern Nigeria
2016-2020
PEARL II KEBBI, NIGERIA (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
African cassava whitefly: outbreak causes and sustainable solutions.
2014-2018
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enabling research tools for cassava virologists and breeders
2013-2017
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Development of on-farm robust diagnostic toolkits for yam virus diseases
2012-2015
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Andrew Armitage’s projects:
An enhanced toolkit for Botrytis control in protected cropping
2024-2028
BBSRC PACE Horticulture
Understanding microbiome dynamics of crops in controlled light environments
2024-2027
University of Greenwich Vice Chancellor PhD Scholarship
Understanding the true Medicinal value of medicinal mushrooms
2024-2024
Growing Kent and Medway Business Innovation Voucher
Epidemiology of anthracnose on cashew genotypes and sustainable control strategies in Côte d'Ivoire
2024-2024
RSIF PASET visiting PhD Scholarship
Striga management using a host-specific fungal pathogen
2023-2024
University of Greenwich REF funding.
Phenotyping flavour: novel high-throughput assays to assess aroma and
bitterness across hop breeding collections
2023-2024
University of Greenwich HEIF funding.
Distribution characterization of the fungi responsible for post-harvest rots in yams and control with biopesticides in the Cote d’Ivoire
2023-2023
RSIF PASET visiting PhD Scholarship
Development of in-field tools for early detection of fruit storage rots
2022-2023
BBSRC Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network
Breeding better biocontrols – Identifying targets for Clonostachys rosea strain improvement through partitioning genomic regions involved in insect infection from those involved in hyphal parasitism –
2022-2023
University of Greenwich REF funding.
Viral diversity and coevolution with Fungal and Oomycete pathogens
2021-2024
University of Greenwich Vice Chancellor PhD Scholarship
Developing next generation diagnostics to prevent establishment of fungal pathogens in UK fruit crops –
2021-2021
Royal Society of Biology undergraduate studentship
Goncalo Silva’s projects:
Smart traps for improved surveillance and early detection of plant regulated pests
2024-2025
Innovate UK
Transformative Research Technologies: Smart Materials for Equipment-Free Molecular Identification of Insect Pests and Viral Vectors
2021-2022
UKRI-BBSRC 2020 TDRF
Virus survey in UK vineyards
2021 – 2023
Consultancy service to NIAB EMR Viticulture consortium
Using High-Throughput Sequencing indexing to strengthen the yam (Dioscorea spp.) seed systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
2019 – 2022
Royal Society International Collaboration Award
Identification of mealybug vectors involved in the transmission of badnavirus infecting yam in Northern Nigeria
2019-2020
BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund: “CONNECTED” - Community network for African vector borne plant diseases award
Bio-ecology of and Host Plant Resistance to Bean Leaf Beetles
2016-2020
PEARL NCRRI UGANDA
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enabling Research Tools for Cassava and Yam Virologists and Breeders
2016-2024
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Building links with the Kent wine industry
2015–2017
University of Greenwich
Sophie Bouvaine’s projects:
Effect of plant host resistance on the virus populations of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) and their transmissibility by aphids
LIDo iCASE studentship. BBSRC
2024-2028
Building links with R.A.G.T Seeds Ltd and increase capacity on detection of cereal virus in the UK
University of Greenwich HEIF funding
2023
Enabling Research Tools for Cassava and Yam Virologists and Breeders
2016-2024
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CONNECTED: Impact activities
BBSRC-GCRF
2023
CONNECTED network: pump prime funding: Characterization of Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) vector specificity and the role of its coat protein DAG motif in vector transmission.
BBSRC-GCRF
2019-2020
CONNECTED network: pump prime funding: Mechanisms of transmission of cocoa swollen shoot virus by two species of mealybug vectors
BBSRC-GCRF
2019-2020
CONNECTED network: pump prime funding: Modelling of cassava brown streak virus spread by the insect vector Bemisia tabaci
BBSRC-GCRF
2019-2020
Impact of cover crops on the control of cereal insect pests (PLANTSERV)
ECOPHYTO II program: French Ministry of Agriculture
2019-2023
