Dr Gordon Allison
Analytical Biochemist
Contact Details
- Email: goa@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9575-8839
- Office: WD 034, IBERS Gogerddan
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 823205
- Personal Website: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/ibers/staff-profiles/listing/profile/goa
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
I work across disciplines, interact with industry and provide underpinning in IBERS for chemical and data analysis.My interests centre on plant cell wall biochemistry, and how architecture and chemical composition affect the efficiency of the conversion of plant feedstocks by thermochemical processes, fermentation by ruminants and also by commercial industrial processing. I am expert in chromatographic/ mass spectrometry, vibrational spectroscopy and imaging, thermochemical analysis, and statistical and chemometric data mining/ modelling. I coordinate the MSc in Biotechnology and teach broadly at undergraduate and post graduate levels.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BRM0700 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BRM0520 - Biotechnology for Business
- BRM4800 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BR36120 - Molecular Pharmacology
Lecturer
- BRM0700 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BRM0720 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BRM0520 - Biotechnology for Business
- BR26620 - Proteins and Enzymes
- BDM8620 - Waste Stream Valorisation
- BRM4820 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BR36120 - Molecular Pharmacology
Coordinator
- BRM4820 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BRM0520 - Biotechnology for Business
- BRM0720 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BRM0700 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BR36120 - Molecular Pharmacology
- BRM4800 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
Grader
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BR36400 - Research Project
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- BRM2800 - MBiol Research Project
Tutor
- BRM0520 - Biotechnology for Business
- BR26620 - Proteins and Enzymes
- BRM0840 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BR36120 - Molecular Pharmacology
- BRM0720 - Current Topics in Biotechnology
- BRM0800 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BG12410 - Sgiliau Astudio a Chyfathrebu
- BRM6400 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BR35520 - Biotechnology
Research Groups
- Crops for sustainable energy and materials
Publications
da Costa, R, Barrett, W, Carli, JM & Allison, G 2020, Analysis of Plant Cell Walls by Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy: FTIR of Plant Cell Walls. in Z Popper (ed.), The Plant Cell Wall: Methods and Protocols. 2 edn, Methods in Molecular Biology, no. 2, vol. 2149, Springer Nature, pp. 297-313. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0621-6_16
Jones, GL, Scullion, J, Allison, G, Stott, H, Johnson, D, Owen, R, Williams, G & Gwynn-Jones, D 2019, 'Reduced soil respiration beneath invasive Rhododendron ponticum persists after cutting and is related to substrate quality rather than microbial community', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 138, 107577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107577
Bustamante, MA, Nogués, I, Jones, S & Allison, G 2019, 'The effect of anaerobic digestate derived composts on the metabolite composition and thermal behaviour of rosemary', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 6489. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42725-6
Elliott, C, Edwards, J, Wilkinson, T, Allison, G, McCaffrey, K, Scott, M, Rees Stevens, P, Kingston-Smith, A & Huws, S 2018, 'Using 'Omic Approaches to Compare Temporal Bacterial Colonization of Lolium perenne, Lotus corniculatus and Trifolium pratense in the Rumen', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 9, 2184. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02184
Konstantopoulou, M, Slator, P, Taylor, C, Wellington, E, Allison, G, Harper, A, Bancroft, I & Bugg, T 2018, 'Variation in susceptibility to microbial lignin oxidation in a set of wheat straw cultivars: influence of genetic, seasonal and environmental factors', Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 493-507. https://doi.org/10.3183/npprj-2017-32-04_p493-507_bugg
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