Prof Gareth Griffith
BSc Microbiology (University of Wales); PhD Fungal ecology (University of Wales)
Professor
Contact Details
- Email: gwg@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6914-3745
- Office: 2.31 (bridge/pont), Cledwyn Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622325
- Personal Website: http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/
- Twitter: @AberMycol
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ZAB3cO8AAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Additional Information
Member of the editorial boards for journals Fungal Ecology and Plant Pathology.
Member of the Conservation Committee of the Mycological Society of America and a past member of the Council of the British Mycological Society.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the British Mycological Society, Mycological Society of America, British Society for Plant Pathology and the Microbiology Society
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
- BG16820 - Sgiliau ar gyfer Biolegwyr
- BG19920 - Amrywiaeth Microbau a Phlanhigion
- BR19920 - Microbial and Plant Diversity
- BG15720 - Sgiliau ar gyfer Gwyddonwyr Bywyd Gwyllt
Coordinator
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
- BG19920 - Amrywiaeth Microbau a Phlanhigion
- BR19920 - Microbial and Plant Diversity
- BG15720 - Sgiliau ar gyfer Gwyddonwyr Bywyd Gwyllt
- BG16820 - Sgiliau ar gyfer Biolegwyr
Tutor
- BR01340 - Molecules and Cells
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
- BR14310 - Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
- BR27520 - Research Methods
Lecturer
- BR12510 - Biological Thought and Discovery
- BR14310 - Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BR35520 - Biotechnology
- BR24720 - Practical and Professional Skills in Microbiology
- BG24720 - Sgiliau Ymarferol a Proffesiynol ym Microbioleg
- BR01340 - Molecules and Cells
Grader
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- PGM0210 - Principles of Research Design
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
Course Viewer
Moderator
Co-ordinator of the following modules in English (BR12110, BR26020, BR36620, PGM2410) and Welsh (BG12110, BG26020, BG36620), and contributes to teaching on BR01340, BR12210, BG12410, BR12410, BR13320, BR14310, BR15700, BR24720, BR33720, BR35520, BR36440, BRM2860, BRM3560 and BRM6420
Research
1) Ecology of Grassland Fungi
- Use of eDNA in fungal ecology
- Ecology and conservation of grassland macrofungi (Hygrocybe spp. and other waxcap fungi).
- Role of Dark Septate endophytes (DSE) in temperate grasslands).
- Ecology of anaerobic rumen fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota).
2) Fungal Taxonomy and DNA barcoding
- Molecular phylogenetics of anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigomycota), Dark Septate Endophytes; mollisioid fungi (Helotiales), rusts (Pucciniales), Coral fungi (Pterulaceae, Clavariaceae) and waxcaps (Hygrophoraceae)
3) Aerobiology
- Detection of airborne propagules of fungi, plant pathogens etc (e.g. sporangia of the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans) and pollen using novel air sampling devices, flow cytometry and DNA metabarcoding.
4) Cacao Pathology
- Pathogenesis, host specificity, population genetics, genomics and infection biology of Moniliophthora perniciosa, causal agent of witches' broom disease.
5) Silage microbiology
- Role of fungi in the spoilage of silage
These research programmes are funded by NERC, BBSRC, DEFRA, Natural Resources Wales, Cocoa Research UK Ltd. Silage Solutions Ltd., KESS and the Dutch Government.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/GW_Griffith
Responsibilities
Head of the Microbiology Group within IBERS.
Organiser of the weekly IBERS Research Seminar series.
Disability coordinator for IBERS.
Curator of the IBERS Herbarium/Fungarium, the university's official biorepository (code ABS).