Professor Dianna Bowles, OBE

Dianna’s other current responsibilities include chairing the Plant Sector Advisory of the TSB funded Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network. Previously she directed EPOBIO, a large European and US consortium established to realise the economic potential of bioproducts from non-food crops.

Dianna was the founder of The Plant Journal, an international plant research publication. She has served on many UK Government and international committees and was awarded the OBE in 2003 for services to plant sciences. Dianna , also has a keen interest in rural issues and is Chair of the Trustees of The Sheep Trust, a UK charity established to protect heritage sheep breeds.

Professor Ian Graham, Director of CNAP

Professor Ian Graham is the current Director of CNAP and holds the Weston Chair in Biochemical Genetics at the University of York. Ian's research interests focus on the regulation of plant metabolism in order to understand what controls the synthesis and breakdown of plant products such as oils and carbohydrates.

Among his professional activities Ian acts as a member of the BBSRC Plant and Microbial Sciences Panel, the John Innes Centre Governing Council and the Science Advisory Board of Genoplante, the French National Programme in Plant Genomics.