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Colin Turnbull is a professor in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London, specializing in plant sciences. His research is focused on the interaction between plants and pests, particularly aphids, and the development of plant defense mechanisms. Turnbull's innovative work employs proteomics and transcriptomics to study the genetics of pest virulence and host resistance. He has conducted in-depth analyses of phloem defenses against aphids and is keenly interested in genomic studies and effector functions that contribute to plant immunity. He has been involved in numerous research grants centered on understanding plant-fungal symbioses and the molecular genetic basis of aphid virulence. With a solid academic background, including a BSc in Biological Sciences with Honours in Botany from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Turnbull has significantly contributed to the field through various published studies on plant defense systems.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.