Contacts:
CNAP Director,
Professor Ian Graham
CNAP Manager, Dr Caroline Calvert
CNAP Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, PO Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK
CNAP - Centre for Novel Agricultural Products
CNAP is a research centre in the Department of Biology at the University of York, founded in 1999 with the help of a benefaction from the Garfield Weston Foundation.
CNAP’s mission is to realise the potential of plant- and microbial-based renewable resources through gene discovery and germplasm development.
The award of a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2006, recognised CNAP as a centre of excellence for strategic research on plants and microbes.
There are four research chairs in CNAP: Ian Graham (Director), Dianna Bowles, Neil Bruce and Simon McQueen-Mason and two independent research fellows, Steven Penfield and Neil Taylor.
CNAP occupies 2000 m2 of dedicated space in specialised laboratories clustered around the CNAP Plant Genome Facility and the Biology Department’s Technology Facility. At any one time there are 80-100 postdoctoral, postgraduate, technical and administrative staff carrying out research and support activities.
Research is funded by Research Councils, charitable organisations, EU Framework programmes, government departments and industry. Total open funding in financial year 2008-2009 is ~£22 M.
Strategic research is primarily targeted at plants for biorenewable feedstocks, plants for health and plants for phytoremediation. The CNAP Artemisia Research Project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation addresses the improvement of the supply chain for artemisinin, a key anti-malarial for the developing world.
CNAP also provides advice to policy makers, and was responsible for leading a US/EC consortium, EPOBIO that developed a successful process for assessing the economic potential of sustainable resources. CNAP’s commitment to communicating science is reflected in an active science and society programme, reaching out to a wide variety of audiences including schools and the general public.
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New joint research appointment for plant scientist
A leading plant scientist is to take up the joint appointment of a Chair in Crop Protection in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) in the Department of Biology at the University of York and Chief Scientist in the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera). |
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Seafarers' scourge provides hope for biofuel future For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal communities. |
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New genetic map will speed up plant breeding of the world's most important medicinal crop related links: The botanical solution for malaria. Science perspective article Genetic map published in Science Recent media coverage; Gene map of anti-malaria plant could boost supply |
