New Members The BSPP welcomes the following new members: Mr Bruce Adie, a postgraduate student at HRI, Wellesbourne Dr John Antoniw, from IACR, Rothamsted, whose interests include molecular virology and bioinformatics Dr David Backhouse, at the Department of Crop Sciences in Sydney, Australia Dr Fen Beed, based at ADAS Boxworth, whose interests include epidemiology of fungal pathogens of wheat Miss Nicola C Berry, a student from the Horticulture Department of the University of Greenwich Dr Paul R J Birch, from the Scottish Crop Research Insitute, Dundee, working on fungal molecular biology Dr Clive H Bock, based in New Orleans, whose interests include fungal pathogens of sorghum, oilseed rape and cotton Mr Ewen J Cartwright, from IACR Rothamsted, a molecular virologist developing computer software for the BSPP Ms Dawn Fraser, from the Dept of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, whose interests include population biology and epidemiology of cereal fungal pathogens Dr Oscar Grau, a plant pathologist based in Argentina Dr W Clive James, who is based at Grand Cayman in the British West Indies Mr Polyvios Kyritsis, a postgraduate student from the Dept of Horticulture and Landscape, Reading University, whose interests include detection and control of fungal and bacterial pathogens Mr Stephen Langrell, a postgraduate student at Wye College researching the molecular detection and epidemiology of N. galligena Professor Fred Last, now retired but retaining links to the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management at Edinburgh University, with interests including epidemiology and physiology of biotrophic fungi Mr Jose Fernando Mikan-Vegas, a postgraduate student at the University of Bath, studying cereal fungal pathogens Miss Lisa V Page, who is researching for her PhD at the Horticulture Department of SAC, Auchincruive Mrs Jennifer M Rawson, a postgraduate student at the University of Birmingham, studying molecular genetics of necrotrophic fungi in cereals Mr Barry Rogers-Gray, a postgraduate student at the University of Reading. Miss Ana Perez Sierra, an agricultural engineer based in Guildford Ms Anne Sweetmore, a freelance researcher and editor BSPP membership has been fairly static over the last few years, at around 700 members. While this is quite healthy, there is certainly room for an increase. To help boost membership, I am seeking volunteers to act as BSPP local representatives around the UK. The local representatives will be given a stock of BSPP promotional material, which can be passed to new recruits in their department or institute. Recruitment of existing colleagues who have, unaccountably, resisted the lure of BSPP membership will also be most welcome! If you would like to act in this role, please get in touch with me at odonnell@sasa.gov.uk : I would also like to thank those who have already agreed to act in this role: James Brown John Innes Centre & Sainsbury Laboratory,
Norwich Next year will see a substantial increase in the BSPP's profile. Let's make it a substantial increase in membership too. Kevin O'Donnell
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