RESEARCH PROFILE

Guy is Director of the Genomics Resource Centre in the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.His academic interests include: Comparative genomics and genome organisation including exploring the genes and mechanisms underlying quality and other traits related to health and wellbeing. His other research interests include developing a novel approach for the recovery of bio-energy from ligno-cellulolytic waste, exploring the genes and mechanisms underlying fatty acid quality and utilising diversity within the gene pool to understand gene expression and regulation of biodiversity. He is involved in the ongoing international Brassica Genome Sequencing efforts funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and has further funding in the area of crop science and diet and health also funded by the BBSRC.

Guy is actively involved in science communication and has received awards from both the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Agriculture (Defra) and BBSRC for his public engagement work. He is a Member of the Academic advisory panel of the Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (CIKTN), Contributor to the Industrial Biotechnology, Innovation and Growth Team (IB-IGT) report and Sciencewise project looking at Public perceptions to Industrial Biotechnology which is continuing through further engagement with the UK department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Forum for the Future.

Guy irecently participated in the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party review on new approaches to biofuels.

BACKGROUND

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Exploiting sources of resistance to turnip yellow virus for deployment in oilseed - CIRC proposal, with Dr John A Walsh, Life Sciences, Dr Graham R Teakle - Life Sciences Dr Guy C Barker - Life Sciences, Funded by: BBSRC, Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/03/2015
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Feng Ji; Long Yan; Shi Lei; et al.(2012) 'Characterization of metabolite quantitative trait loci and metabolic networks that control glucosinolate concentration in the seeds and leaves of Brassica napus' New Phytologist 193 (1), 96 - 108 (0028-646X)
• Tait, J. and Barker, G.(2011) 'Global food security and the governance of modern biotechnologies' EMBO Reports 12 (8), 763 - 768 (1469-221X) [article]
• Jenner, C. E., Nellist, C. F., Barker, G. C. and Walsh, J. A.(2010) 'Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) is able to use alleles of both eIF4E and eIF(iso)4E from multiple loci of the diploid Brassica rapa' Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 23 (11), 1498 - 1505 (0894-0282) [article]
• Wang, Q., Hou1, X. L., Geng, J. F., Cheng, Y., Ban, Q. Y., Zou, J. W. and Barker, G. C.(2010) 'Quantitative trait loci for photosynthetic pigments concentration in doubled-haploid population of Pak Choi (Brassica rapa ssp. chinensis var. communis Tsen et Lee)' Journal Of Horticultural Science And Biotechnology 85 (5), 421 - 426 (1462-0316)
• Alix, K., Joets, J., Ryder, C. D., Moore, J., Barker, G. C., Bailey, J. P., King, G. J. and Heslop-Harrison, J. S.(2008) 'The CACTA transposon Bot1 played a major role in Brassica genome divergence and gene proliferation' Plant Journal, The 56 (6), 1030 - 1044 (0960-7412) [article]

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• Epigenetics in Arabidopsis, Date of Completion: 2009
• Plant derived products important for health, Date of Completion: 2009
• Isolation of novel products from plants