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News Releases BCPC announces new Board member 22 June 2009 BCPC is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Graham Jellis to its Board of Management. Graham is currently Director of Research and Development at HGCA where he is responsible for the R&D function, managing research projects on cereals and oilseeds, including the Recommended Lists and producing independent information based on this research. “Having Graham accept an appointment to the BCPC Board of Management is most welcome,” says, Dr Colin Ruscoe, Chairman of BCPC. “His experience at HGCA will be of particular value and benefit to BCPC in providing informed opinion on current issues in crop and food production, as well as helping expand its range of publications and symposia.” Trained as a plant pathologist at Manchester University, where he completed a PhD on silver scurf of potatoes, he was then employed at the Plant Breeding Institute (later PBI Cambridge Ltd) for 27 years where his initial work was as a potato pathologist. He was then appointed Head of the Plant Pathology Group and finally Head of Plant Technology. He is Special Professor in applied Plant Pathology at Nottingham University, Fellow of the Institute of Biology and is President of the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) until July 2009. Due to retire from HGCA in July 2009, Graham intends to remain active within the industry. In January 2010, following the retirement of Dr Ben Miflin, he will become Chairman of Crop Evaluation Ltd, which manages the HGCA Recommended Lists. |
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Professor Graham Jellis – appointed to the BCPC Board of Management | © BCPC |