ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Essential to the successful running of GARNet is the GARNet Advisory Committee, which links GARNet to the community and keeps us up to date with the day to day experiences and issue of researchers. The committee currently consists of 10 elected members, who contribute their time on a voluntary basis. The committee provides GARNet with an oversight body that ensures direct community input to GARNet’s strategy and actions.
Each member serves a term of three years and annual elections are held in November/December to elect new members. The committee is elected from the community to represent and serve the needs of the community. If you would like to know more about becoming a GARNet committee member please get in touch.
In addition to the elected members the committee also includes the GARNet PI (Jim Murray), GARNet Coordinator (Geraint Parry) and three ex-offico members; Ruth Bastow, Sean May and Sabina Leonelli.
From time to time the GARNet Committee receives requests for letters of support for community resource grants. Information regarding letters of support can be found here.
Andrea Harper
University of York
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Lab website
My lab is focussed on developing statistical genetics and systems approaches for exploring complex traits in plants. Currently, we are utilising transcriptomics data to investigate genetic tolerance to a fungal pathogen in ash trees which causes ash dieback disease, and are developing an associative transcriptomics platform designed to exploit the genetic diversity found in global landraces to support the improvement of this staple crop around the world.
Key publications
Sollars, Harper, Kelly, & Sambles et al., (2017) Genome sequence and genetic diversity of European ash trees. Nature 541: 2012-2016
Harper et al., (2016) Associative transcriptomics identifies markers associated with reduced susceptibility to Ash Dieback disease in the European Ash tree Fraxinus excelsior. Scientific Reports 6:19335
Harper et al., (2012) Associative transcriptomics of traits in the polyploid crop species Brassica napus. Nature Biotechnology 30:798-802
