Developing routine diagnostics for quarantine insect & nematode pest











  • Rapid species identification
  • Routine use of real-time PCR for identification of quarantine insect pest juveniles.
  • Species identification of quarantine plant pathogenic nematodes.
  • Barcoding life
  • Large-scale sequencing of key species-determining invertebrate genes.
  • Nematology: collaborating with Professor Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh
  • Walsh, K., et al., (2005)Journal of Applied Entomology 129 (5): 272-279