Microbiologist, plant pathologist, proud husband. Love music, hiking, cooking, cricket and Liverpool FC. BiFoR Chair in Tree Pathology, Uni. of Birmingham
Joined November 2010
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May 22
Saw this impressive canker (?) in a fig tree in Portmeirion, anyone know the causal agent? Quite a lot of black necrosis marks in the stump at the base suggesting an ongoing issue
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25 Oct 2025
Great to see an archaeological project that my Dads been involved in featuring in the news bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dr…
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17 Oct 2025
Watch my latest film about the #Copland125 Anniversary Concert on 14 Nov at All Saints, Church Bristol. To my knowledge this is the only Copland concert anywhere in the world on his actual birthday. #aaroncopland #Copland125
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15 Sep 2025
This looks great!
26 Aug 2025
It's Aaron Copland's 125th anniversary this November and I've made this film as a personal Fanfare. Watch it here: aaron-copland.com/a-personal… The video includes lots of Copland's neglected masterpieces and was filmed in #Bristol, UK. #AaronCopland
#Copland125 #KevinLindegaard
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11 Sep 2025
🎉 Congrats to our #PPATH2025 winners!
🏆 Athira Menon – Poster: RNA-binding proteins in plant immunity
🏆 Vanja Milenkovic – Talk: Drought & disease in Acute Oak Decline
Inspiring plant pathology research! 🌱
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4 Sep 2025
To engineer resilient microbes, @TaylorLabGroup of @UoBbiosciences will investigate how beneficial soil bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens regulates genes to survive environment changes while supporting growth. @RobWJackson @Catriona1392 @JohnInnesCentre
jointgeno.me/FY25FG
ALT A headshot sits beside the researcher's name and affiliation, with the project title below: Characterising the transcriptional regulon of plant growth promoting bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens (SWB25) related to environmental persistence and flexibility to inform sustainable use in agriculture
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29 Jul 2025
New paper out in Plant and Soil journal from PuRpOsE project working on Acute Oak Decline: link.springer.com/article/10…
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28 Jul 2025
⭐ Lead researchers & organisation: Dr Caroline Gorton (@Forest_Research); Prof @RobWJackson (The @unibirmingham Institute of Forest Research (#BIFoR)); Dr @adhirons (@MyerscoughColl).
🤝 Collaborators: Treecosystems
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28 Jul 2025
📢 PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
🌳What is causing the decline of ancient yew trees in southern England?
🔬Our scientists are studying tree health, soil conditions, and the microbiome, to develop strategies to protect these trees for the future.
🔗Read more: forestprotection.uk/project/…
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Robert Jackson retweeted
22 Jul 2025
New #openaccess opinion piece, the 1st from our brilliant collaboration with @EvolvedBiofilm, Xinming Xu, Sofia Gomes and Marine Cambon. Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Robert Jackson retweeted
16 Jul 2025
🎉 My poster is up and ready to go at #2025ISMPMI. Excited to share our work on SynComs for pathogen suppression in oak trees 🌳🧫 Check out poster P-324 during Session 2 - I'll be presenting on Thu, 13.30-15.15 pm
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16 Jul 2025
#ISMPMI2025 Happy to present today my poster about a newly discovered type III effector protein in P. syringae! Please come and visit P-155 today to discuss the story! @michhulin @RobWJackson
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Robert Jackson retweeted
3 Apr 2025
How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene
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Ever wonder how bacteria organize during an infection?!
Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen.
🔗 rdcu.be/egczU
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14 Feb 2025
Fully Funded PhD opportunity in my group! 125th Anniversary PhD Scholarship at @unibirmingham @UoBbiosciences studying (epi)genome plasticity in oaks at the @BIFoRUoB FACE facilities. Black & Black mixed heritage students (UK/Home-fee eligible)
30 April 2025 – RT🙏More info👇
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28 Nov 2024
We seek 2 post docs to join our group working on atmospheric methane removal (AMR) in trees. These exciting projects (👇🏼) seek to build on our recent @nature discovery of global AMR by trees. These projects combine flux msrmnts, global modelling & microbial ecology. Pls RT 🙏🏼
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Robert Jackson retweeted
30 Nov 2024
Microbe of the Month featuring Pseudomonas fluorescens
By Tiffany B. Taylor (@TaylorLabGroup), Mark W. Silby (@MarkSilby) & Robert W. Jackson (@RobWJackson)
dlvr.it/TGVgb4
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11 Nov 2024
So pleased to have attended an absolutely wonderful talk by @MichaelRosenYes resonated with me on so many levels and so interesting to relate to his experiences, thank you
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25 Sep 2024
Last day of sampling Peltigera lichens in the UK after more than a week! 🌱🍄🟫🎒Proud to be part of this collaboration with the University of Birmingham and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🇮🇸🇬🇧🏴@unibirmingham @Hakolinn_Ak @UKinIceland
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