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| NCPPB STAFF |
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| John Heeney, Curator |
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John Heeney joined CSL in 1999 to assist with the diagnosis of plant
diseases of statutory importance to the UK. John is currently a member of the Environmental and Food
Bacteriology team. He is responsible for the day to day maintenance of the culture collection, manages
all sales, deals with customer enquiries, and much of the administration. John was trained in the
'Preservation and Maintenance of Micro-Organisms and Animal Cell Cultures' at CABI Bioscience UK Centre
in 2001. Since 2002, John was heavily involved with obtaining UKAS accreditation for rapid accurate
identification of bacterial plant pathogens and became Deputy Technical Manager for Fatty Acid Profiling
(FAP). He teaches visiting scientists, P.hD students, and CSL staff the techniques involved with FAP
and assists with diagnosis using this technique when required. He is also responsible for maintenance,
troubleshooting, and repairs to the equipment used in the procedure. John is fully trained in
IATA regulations covering the 'Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods in Division 6.2 Infectious
Substances & Related Items of Class 9 by Air' and is a COSHH risk assessor within CSL.
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| Dave Stead, Director |
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David Stead became curator of the NCPPB in 1981 following on from
Pauline Roberts and Ron Lelliott. After many year as curator, David has handed over this role and is
is now responsible for some long term
policies because of his role as a consultant bacteriologist and his
leadership of research on plant pathogenic bacteria at CSL. He will thus
assume a new, less time consuming role as NCPPB director.
Some things have changed very little in 21 years. We still use the same
method for freeze drying. Perhaps the major changes have come in
methods for bacterial identification and for quality control of the
cultures we conserve. David pioneered the use of fatty acid profiling
for rapid accurate identification at species level, which we still use,
and more recently the use of repetitive sequence PCR and AFLP
fingerprints for characterisation at sub specific and even strain level |
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