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Appointments
2001 to present Weston Chair of Biochemistry, Director of the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University York
1994-2001 Established Chair of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, University of York
1991-1993 Personal Chair in Plant Biochemistry, University of Leeds
1979-1991Lecturer through to Reader, Department of Biochemistry, University of Leeds
1973-1978 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at EMBL, University of Cambridge, Weizmann Institute, University of Regensburg, University of Kaiserslautern
Experience
Dianna Bowles has researched plant biology and its many applications for some 35 years with many publications in refereed primary research journals (including Science, Nature, PNAS and EMBO J).She has also published invited reviews in Annual Review of Biochemistry and Annual Review of Plant Biology. Her research group currently focuses on bioactive small molecules found in plants and the enzymes that can be used to increase their utility. She is also interested in the strategic applications of plants, from the perspective of using them to manufacture products of major benefit to society including medicinal compounds such as artemesinin. She founded the Plant Journal and was its and was editor in chief of 11 years.
Dianna has served on many UK government committees, including Overseas Development, Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Environment,. She has worked closely with the Biotechnology and Biology Research Council, participating in training, research and strategy committees, was a member of the Office of Science and Technology GM Science Review Panel and is a member of the current Working Group of the Royal Society on Biofuels. She co-founded the National Non-Food Crops Centre following on from her participation in the Government-Industry Forum on Non-Food Uses of Crops and currently chairs the DTI-funded Knowledge Transfer Network, Bioscience for Business (www.biosciencektn.com). Dianna is a member of the US-EC Taskforce in Biotechnology Research Steering Group on Plant Bioproducts and directs EPOBIO, an EC-funded Science to Support Policy Consortium to realise the potential of non-food uses of crops, of which sustainable energy development is a component (www.epobio.net). She chairs the Advisory Group for DG-Research Framework 7 Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology.
Dianna lives in a small upland community in the Yorkshire Dales and breeds and farms Herdwick sheep. She founded Heritage GeneBank to protect farm animal genetic resources, chairs The Sheep Trust (www.thesheeptrust.org) and directs Heritage Sheep, an EU Consortium to protect and conserve the biodiversity of regional sheep breeds.
Increasingly, Dianna is becoming involved in outreach and communication activities across the supply chains linking growers of agricultural feedstocks to users and consumers of those feedstocks
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