Investigator / Supervisor details

NameProfessor Keith Edwards
Current InstitutionUniversity of Bristol
Current DepartmentBiological Sciences
Institution websitehttp://www.bris.ac.uk
Previous InstitutionsRothamsted Research

Current Awards

ReferenceTitleAward RoleValue £Type
BBS/E/J/000PR9781 Germplasm Co-investigator 5,004,697 Institute Project

Completed Awards

ReferenceTitleAward RoleValue £Type
02/A2/D/08045 Association genetics in wheat breeding Principal Supervisor 41,845 Studentships
96/A1/D/02641 A study of the population ecology of willow beetles using molecular markers Principal Supervisor 31,604 Studentships
96/A3/D/02740 Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite markers for the analysis of genetic diversity in beta Vulgaris spp Principal Supervisor 31,607 Studentships
97/A3/G/03622 Genome analysis using expressed sequence markers Principal Supervisor 32,570 Studentships
98/A4/D/04729 Characterisation of conserved maize and wheat EST's, involved in graining filling using a maize mutator array Principal Supervisor 33,592 Studentships
98/B1/D/04056 Characterisation of the genes responsible for the disease mimic phenotype Principal Supervisor 33,592 Studentships
99/A2/P/05550 An investigation into the altered transcriptome of two disease lesion mimic mutant plants Principal Supervisor 35,171 Studentships
BB/C510591/1 Integration and coordination of UK research on the genomics genetics and improvement of small grain cereals Co-investigator 69,432 Research Grant
BB/E000126/1 Development of new tools and resources to enhance wheat functional genomics Principal Investigator 86,152 Research Grant
BB/E006337/1 A wheat SNP chip for the study of homoeologous gene expression in hexaploid wheat Principal Investigator 93,133 Research Grant
BB/E01268X/1 High throughput genomics Principal Investigator 92,854 Research Grant
BB/F001185/1 Increasing genetic diversity in wheat by interfering with mismatch repair Principal Investigator 395,858 Research Grant
BB/F007523/1 Large scale mapping of wheat transcripts and simultaneously defining the A B and D genome contribution to the hexaploid transcriptome Principal Investigator 463,587 Research Grant
BB/F010370/1 A community resource for wheat functional genomics Principal Investigator 370,992 Research Grant
BB/F011709/1 Confocal microscopy Co-investigator 241,745 Research Grant
BB/G012865/1 Mining the allohexaploid wheat genome for useful sequence polymorphisms Principal Investigator 206,952 Research Grant
BB/I003207/1 Enhancing diversity in UK wheat through a public sector prebreeding programme Principal Investigator 1,202,935 Research Grant
BB/I017496/1 Development and validation of a flexible genotyping platform for wheat Principal Investigator 173,866 Research Grant
BB/J500033/1 CIRC - Targeting SNPs in genes expressed during the early stages of grain development will identify key alleles associated with yield Principal Investigator 91,932 Training Grants
BB/L01386X/1 BrisSynBio: Bristol Centre for Synthetic Biology Co-investigator 13,528,180 Research Grant
BB/L014106/1 Purchase of Affymetrix GeneTitan for use in high throughput genotyping Principal Investigator 326,208 Research Grant
BB/L017687/1 Development of specific TALENs for precision engineering in wheat Principal Investigator 82,391 Research Grant
BB/L020718/1 CerealsDB: A community resource for wheat genomics Principal Investigator 277,692 Research Grant
BB/N002628/1 Releasing natural variation in bread wheat by modulating meiotic crossovers Principal Investigator 2,893,042 Research Grant
BB/N013360/1 Indo-UK Centre for the improvement of Nitrogen use Efficiency in Wheat (INEW) Co-investigator 1,346,096 Research Grant
BB/N020421/1 15-IWYP. A genetic diversity toolkit to maximise harvest index by controlling the duration of developmental phases Co-investigator 682,957 Research Grant
BB/N021061/1 15-IWYP -Wider and faster: high-throughout phenotypic exploration of novel genetic variation for breeding high biomass and yield in wheat Co-investigator 1,010,158 Research Grant
BB/R000298/1 High throughput sample handling for high throughput genomics Principal Investigator 249,959 Research Grant
BB/S019219/1 A multi-channel liquid handler for the Bristol Genomics facility Principal Investigator 179,184 Research Grant
BB/S020519/1 Multi-national workshop on cereal recombination Principal Investigator 9,879 Research Grant
BB/T018364/1 Australia Partnering Award: Are wheat introgressions the breeders' friend or foe? Principal Investigator 40,669 Research Grant
BB/W003317/1 A pipeline for efficient recombination in wheat Principal Investigator 200,365 Research Grant
BBS/B/01839 Towards association genetics in wheat via a very high throughput genotyping method Principal Investigator 247,279 Research Grant
BBS/B/02118 Genotype-dependant effects of cold temperatures on the transcriptomes of wheat vegetative and crown tissues Principal Investigator 322,756 Research Grant
BBS/B/07446 Investigating microRNA-regulated gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana Principal Investigator 247,751 Research Grant
BBS/E/C/00824077 Enabling technologies for physical and functional genomics in crops of agricultural importance Principal Investigator 157,045 Institute Project
D08078 Developing informative microsatellites for marker-assisted breeding in brassica crops Principal Investigator 185,251 Research Grant
D08182 A generalised system for the rapid and inexpensive determination of the genetic function of expressed sequence tags: use in the analysis of maize embryogenesis/germination Principal Investigator 145,208 Research Grant
D09456 New tools for cereal genome manipulation; enabling technologies for plant artificial chromosomes Co-investigator 131,003 Research Grant
D14009 Development of wheat allele specific oligonucleotides (ASOs) from existing microsatellite markers and their use in developing multi-locus, multi-allele genotyping assays Co-investigator 230,352 Research Grant
D16781 Effect of nitrogen supply on the wheat endosperm transcriptome Principal Investigator 162,680 Research Grant
D17385 Exploiting environment-genotype interactions in the developing wheat grain via SAGE technology Principal Investigator 264,016 Research Grant
EGA17701 A genomic approach to improving wheat grain quality for breadmaking Principal Investigator 219,544 Research Grant
G20322 In silico discovery of functional single nucleotid polymorphisms Principal Investigator 177,819 Research Grant
GAT09064 Development of the tools required to dissect large plant genomes and their application to a complex region of the maize genome linked to a disease resistance `super locus' Principal Investigator 139,736 Research Grant
GAT09132 Determining the genetic function of conserved plant expressed sequence tag's using a maize mutator grid Co-investigator 136,296 Research Grant
GAT09151 Development of a non-gel-based high throughput genotyping assay using previously characterised single locus microsatellite markers Principal Investigator 159,501 Research Grant
GAT09152 Development of a non-gel-based high throughput genotyping assay using previously characterised single locus microsatellite markers Co-investigator 91,378 Research Grant
GM114152 Do transgenes predictably alter the expression of the genome? Using wheat grain-filling as a model Co-investigator 347,144 Research Grant
IGF12397 Cereal community resources for investigating gene function Co-investigator 967,128 Research Grant
IGF12403 Cereal community resources for investigating gene function Principal Investigator 1,118,269 Research Grant
JEI09370 Controlled environment facility for the characterisation of genes involved in plant development and responses to pathogens Co-investigator 20,000 Research Grant
JRI07342 Identification, characterisation and utilisation of molecular markers in plants Principal Investigator 52,168 Research Grant
P17174 Functional genomics of maize leaf senescence Principal Investigator 163,608 Research Grant
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