
Gareth Thomas
@g_a_thomas
Post-doc interested in plant-microbe interactions, enteric pathogens, chemical ecology, plant pathology. Views are my own. He/him
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15-04-2016 20:05:14
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Great to be involved with this work- we show that the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) can identify and colonize both Sitka and Norway spruce trees, providing insights for the management of the forest pest. Rothamsted Research Forest Research ow.ly/thvW50UXH6h

Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce. Discovery of pest in UK raises fears for Sitka spruce, which accounts for half of country’s commercial plantations Gareth Thomas Mike Birkett Forest Research theguardian.com/environment/20…




Great day at the Oak Health & Plant Biosecurity Event at Kew Gardens, hearing updates on oak health research and visiting Kew’s oak collection! Action Oak #ActionOak #PlantHealth



Just out in Science Magazine: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…


Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor NTU Singapore NTU School of Biological Sciences, after ten rewarding years working with my wonderful mentors Nick Talbot Dr. Wenbo Ma and colleagues The Sainsbury Laboratory


🤍 The thoughts of everyone at #LUFC are with Diogo Jota’s family, friends and all associated with Liverpool FC at this devastating time


New #openaccess opinion piece, the 1st from our brilliant collaboration with Akos T. Kovacs, Xinming Xu, Sofia Gomes and Marine Cambon. Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


🧵 New preprint alert! From the @futureoak project, led by Jim Downie Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…