User:Donal O'Sullivan

Professor of Crop Science at the University of Reading since April 2013, I have almost 20 years experience in agricultural research. After graduating with B.Sc in Biotechnology from Dublin City University (Ireland), my PhD research was on genome dynamics of the anthracnose pathogen of common bean (Colletorichum lindemuthianum). I did a first postdoc on maize structural genomics at Long Ashton Research Station in Bristol (UK) and a short second postdoc on positional cloning of Arabidopsis root hair genes before moving to a project leader position at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge (UK) where I became interested in association genetics of arable crops. Nowadays, I work mainly on the genetic analysis of a variety of relevant traits in both wheat and faba bean.

Key publications: Boyd, L. A., Ridout, C., O'Sullivan, D. M., Leach, J. E. and Leung, H. (2013) Plant–pathogen interactions: disease resistance in modern agriculture. Trends in Genetics, 29 (4). pp. 233-240. ISSN 0168-9525 doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.10.011 Cottage, A., Gostkiewicz, K., Thomas, J. E., Borrows, R., Torres, A.-M. and O'Sullivan, D. M. (2012) Heterozygosity and diversity analysis using mapped single nucelotide polymorphisms in a faba bean inbreeding programme. Molecular Breeding, 30 (4). pp. 1799-1809. ISSN 1572-9788 doi: 10.1007/s11032-012-9745-4 Cockram, J., White, J., Zuluaga, D. L., Smith, D., Comadran, J., Macaulay, M., Luo, Z., Kearsey, M. J., Werner, P., Harrap, D., Tapsell, C., Liu, H., Hedley, P. E., Stein, N., Schulte, D., Steuernagel, B., Marshall, D. F., Thomas, W. T. B., Ramsay, L., Mackay, I., Balding, D. J., Waugh, R. and O'Sullivan, D. M. (2010) Genome-wide association mapping to candidate polymorphism resolution in the unsequenced barley genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (50). pp. 21611-21616. ISSN 1091-6490 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1010179107 O'Sullivan, D. M., Ripoll, P. J., Rodgers, M. and Edwards, K. J. (2001) A maize bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library from the European flint inbred line F2. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 103 (2-3). pp. 425-432. ISSN 1432-2242 doi: 10.1007/s001220100605 O'Sullivan, D. M., Tosi, P., Creusot, F., Cooke, B. M., Phan, T.-H., Dron, M. and Langin, T. (1998) Variation in genome organization of the plant pathogenic fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. Current Genetics, 33 (4). pp. 291-298. ISSN 0172-8083 doi: 10.1007/s002940050339