Pat (JS) Heslop-Harrison is Professor of Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Cytogenetics at the University of Leicester, UK. He co-leads the research group investigating the genomics and evolution of the plants and animals with a focus on crops, and he is involved with teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the University and internationally. His group has been involved in studying the banana genome, diseases and diversity several years including fungal, viral and bacterial diseases, and was involved with sequencing the banana genome.
As well as publishing his research he regularly presents talks at research conferences. He is Chief Editor of Annals of Botany, and an accepting editor of Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Plant Reproduction (formerly Sexual Plant Reproduction). He is a member of various UK and international grant and institutional review bodies, including in 2013/14 the UK REF, which measured the quality of research at all UK Universities to provide the basis for distribution of research funding and in 2015 the Commission evaluating the Biological Sciences Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences CAS.
Pat Heslop-Harrison was vice-President then President of The Society for Experimental Biology from 2007 to 2011, the major learned Society in this area. Pat is on the Board of the European Cytogeneticists Association (2nd Vice-President from 2015, and was a member of the Management Committee of the Global Musa Genomics Consortium (1997-2015 when merged into Musanet. He has supervised or co-supervised about 26 PhD students from around the world. Pat was previously a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, and Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge.
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