Patrick Green

Patrick Green Doctoral Student at the Doctoral Training Centre Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU

After completing my BSc, with final year modules in Plant Sciences, Genetics, and Biochemistry, I looked to develop research experience which would connect these themes. This led to a Masters by research under the supervision of Professor Gary Foster and Dr Andy Bailey at the Bristol University Molecular Plant Pathology group, with a research focus on the viral diseases of the major staple food crop Cassava. Using a range of proteomic and molecular biology techniques we were able to characterise the activity of the the unique Ham1 protein in Cassava brown streak virus and investigate its role in infection. As of 2018 I am a doctoral student at Oriel College, University of Oxford, funded by the BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

Interests

• Plant Molecular Biology
• Plant Pathology
• Plant Biotechnology
• Molecular Virology
• Proteomics

Education

• 2018- Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BBSRC DTP) DPhil, University of Oxford
• 2017-2018 Biological Sciences MSc(R), University of Bristol
• 2014-2017 Biological Sciences BSc, Durham University
• 2012-2014 A levels in Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics at Hills Road Sixth Form College Cambridge

Research

• A 12 week rotation project in Cf-2 of tomato under the supervision of Professor Renier van Der Hoorn in the department of Plant Sciences, Oxford.


• Masters by research thesis on 'Investigating the function of Cassava brown streak virus and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus Ham1 proteins during infection'


• Bachelors thesis on 'The role of microRNAs in plant drought tolerance'


• Nuffield Bursary Research placement at Cambridge University Department of Genetics assisting research on epigenetic signals and the expression of NANOG by stem cells using GFP tags.

Conferences

• Connected the community network for African vector-borne plant viruses UK launch conference, February 2018, Bristol.