David Edwards
David Edwards
Academic history:
PhD University of Cambridge 2000
BSc (Hons) University of Nottingham 1989
Posts held:
- 2012 - present Professor University of Queensland.
- 2007 – 2011 Associate Professor University of Queensland.
- 2002 - 2007 Plant Biotechnology Centre, Victoria, Australia.
- 1997 - 2002 IACR Long Ashton, University of Bristol, UK.
- 1996 -1997 Genetics Dept. University of Cambridge, UK.
I gained an Honours degree in agriculture from the University of Nottingham and a PhD from the Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge. I have held positions within academia (University of Adelaide, Australia; University of Cambridge, UK; and McGill University, Canada), government (Long Ashton Research Centre, UK, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia) and industry (ICI seeds, UK). I moved to The University of Queensland, Australia in 2007 as an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow to support bioinformatics for the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics. My research interests include applied agricultural biotechnology, the structure and expression of plant genomes, the discovery and application of molecular genetic markers and applied bioinformatics, with a focus on crops, and more recently, metagenomic populations.
Contact:
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Tel: +61 (0)7 3346 7084
email: Dave.Edwards@uq.edu.au
