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
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR12110 - Microbial Diversity
- BG12110 - Amrywiaeth Microbau
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
Lecturer
- BR14310 - Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- BG12410 - Sgiliau Astudio a Chyfathrebu
- BR12110 - Microbial Diversity
- BR12410 - Study and Communication Skills
- BR35520 - Biotechnology
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BG12110 - Amrywiaeth Microbau
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR13320 - Applied Animal Biology
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- BG24720 - Sgiliau Ymarferol a Proffesiynol ym Microbioleg
- BR01340 - Molecules and Cells
- BR24720 - Practical and Professional Skills in Microbiology
- BR12510 - Biological Thought and Discovery
- BR14910 - Soils and their Management
Tutor
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BG12110 - Amrywiaeth Microbau
- BR01340 - Molecules and Cells
- BR14310 - Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR12110 - Microbial Diversity
Grader
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- BR36440 - Research Project
- PGM0210 - Principles of Research Design
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
Coordinator
- BG12110 - Amrywiaeth Microbau
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BR12110 - Microbial Diversity
- BG36620 - Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BR36620 - Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse
- PGM2410 - Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences
Course Viewer
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).