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How the UK should harness its agricultural science for climate resilience and food security

How the UK should harness its agricultural science for climate resilience and food security

Our global food system is broken, driving human ill-health and environmental degradation, while also increasingly vulnerable to environme...

What we learned from bringing together global expertise on gene editing regulation

What we learned from bringing together global expertise on gene editing regulation

We had a fantastic day with the UK-CGIAR Centre: Bringing together global expertise on gene editing regulation to inform alignment for su...

Starting a new personal site

Starting a new personal site

This post is partly to introduce my new website, share some discoveries I made in the process, and why I now recommend making your own si...

We've released the new precision breeding procedures

We've released the new precision breeding procedures

We know gene editing regulations are changing globally but less is shared on the field trial procedures, so we made a resource for the co...

Connecting national genebanks directly with smallholders supports local resilience efforts

Connecting national genebanks directly with smallholders supports local resilience efforts

Connecting national genebanks directly with smallholders supports local resilience efforts. Great to have our paper in Plant Genetic Reso...

I've made new tool to help track & communicate crop GE regulatory change

I've made new tool to help track & communicate crop GE regulatory change

Like the map above? It’s yours to use. I’ve made a website to freely provide high-res versions and news on gene editing regulatory change...

Supporting the next women leaders in wheat research

Supporting the next women leaders in wheat research

I am just back from A fantastic couple of days at CIMMYT-Obregón working alongside Diane Saunders on the Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat...

Moroccan precision breeding meeting with British Embassy

Moroccan precision breeding meeting with British Embassy

It was fantastic to chair a meeting at the British Embassy Morocco Ambassador’s residence, for a mutual learning session between five cou...