Research Programmes

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Research Programmes

• Innovation Partnership Presentation
• 28th January 2009

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Resources
50m (2012)
388 scientific and administrative staff located
at Penglais, Llanbadarn and Plas Gogerddan with
several research and teaching farms
34m (2008)
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IBERS Research

• Animal Science
• Rumen ecology
• Equine wound healing
• Prosafe Beef
• Bryozoan novel compounds
• Bioenergy Biorenewables
• Grassohol, Miscanthus, Salix
• Anaerobic digestion
• Plant Genomics Biomathematics
• Salicylic acid thermal stress
• Non-coding DNA computational analysis
• Methylation detection microsatellites
• Plant Breeding Genetics
• AberNile Stay-Green ryegrass
• Lupin breeding with genetic markers

• Operational Centres
• Grassland Development Centre
• Organic Centre Wales
• Farm Business Survey
• Working closely with
• Red Meat Centre
• Centre for Alternative Land Use
• Dairy Development Centre

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4 Research Pillarsheaded up by 4 Professors

• Ian King Crop Breeding and Genomics
• Iain Donnison Plant-based Biorenewables
• Jamie Newbold Animal and Microbial Sciences
• Karl Hoffman Evolution, Co-evolution and
  Adaptation

IBERS was formed on 17th April 2008, it is headed
up by Professor Wayne Powell
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• Genetics and Animal and Plant Breeding Group
  (GAPD)
• Development of scrapie-resistant sheep
• Equine and other farm animals - enhanced
  reproductive efficiency
• Improving meat quality
• Plant phenomics molecular causes of differing
  appearance etc.
• Brachypodium distachyon a model for
  investigating grasses and cereals
• Stay-green grasses and cereals genetics of
  senescence and ripening
• Genetics of crop disease-resistance

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• Pests, Pathogens Stress Group (PPS)
• Control of TB and other mycobacterial infections
• Detection of mycoplasmas (pneumonia etc.)
• Control detection of Malaria, Schistosomiasis
  (Bilharzia)
• Predictive models of global spread of parasites
• Silage pathogens
• Pathogen metabolomics (chemical fingerprints)
• Plant responses to fungi
• Plant responses to abiotic stress (particularly
  climate change)

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• Agriculture and the Environment Group (AE)
• Rural, sustainable, and eco-toursim
• Agro-ecological modelling and exploitation of
  biodiversity on landscape
• The ecological consequences of gene flow from GM
  crops
• Characterising and evaluating drivers of
  environmental policy
• Organic farming systems
• Developing approaches to land use that maximise
  biodiversity
• Mitigating the environmental impact of
  herbivores
• Modelling pollen dispersal on a landscape scale
• Understanding factors governing the behaviour of
  land users
• Understanding the effects of climate change on
  plants

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• Diet and Health Group (DH)
• Development of metabolomic standards for the
  analysis of foods
• Human health consequences of the enteric
  fermentation
• Nutrigenomics using metabolomics to understand
  the link between diet and disease
• Plant-based alternatives to antibiotics
• Understanding the nutritional value of animal
  products in the human diet ie conjugated linoleic
  acid in the human diet
• The role of probiotics in promoting gut health
  and function

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IBERS - Aber BioCentre
Aber Bio Centre (ABC) was launched in May 1998 by
Sir Brian Richards CBE and Sir Tom Blundell, it
acts as a market-facing entity for the
commercialisation of science, research and
consultancy
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IBERS - Aber BioCentre

• Projects
• Welsh businesses involved in collaborative work
• MNL (now Summit) spin-out at Gogerddan
• Neem Biotech (South Wales company)
• AA International (TechTalk)
• Innovis (Aberystwyth based)
• Alzeim (Brecon based)
• ESS (Neath based)

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IBERS - Aber BioCentre
What role do you think Aber Bio Centre should
play in the business community in Wales?
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