Prof Gareth Griffith

BSc Microbiology (University of Wales); PhD Fungal ecology (University of Wales)

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

Module Coordinator

• AB1 Sgiliau ar gyfer Gwyddonwyr Bywyd Gwyllt (BG15720)
• AB2 Amrywiaeth Microbau a Phlanhigion (BG19920)
• AB2 Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol (BG26020)
• AB1 Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol (BG36620)
• AB2 Microbial and Plant Diversity (BR19920)
• AB2 Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring (BR26020)
• AB1 Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse (BR36620)
• AB1 Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences (PGM2410)

Lecturer

• AB2 Biological Thought and Discovery (BR12510)
• AB2 Biotechnology (BR35520)
• AB1 Cwrs Maes Ecoleg Ddaearol (BG36620)
• AB2 Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring (BR26020)
• AB1 Evolution and the Diversity of Life (BR14310)
• AB1 Molecules and Cells (BR01340)
• AB2 Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol (BG26020)
• AB2 Practical and Professional Skills in Microbiology (BR24720)
• AB2 Sgiliau Ymarferol a Proffesiynol ym Microbioleg (BG24720)
• AB1 Wildlife Forensics (BR15720)

Tutor

• AB2 Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring (BR26020)
• AB1 Evolution and the Diversity of Life (BR14310)
• AB1 Integrated Year in Industry (BRS0060)
• AB1 MBiol Research Project (BRM2860)
• AB2 Microbial Diversity and Disease (BR19020)
• AB1 Molecules and Cells (BR01340)
• AB2 Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol (BG26020)
• AB1 Research Methods (BR27520)
• AB1 Research Seminar Skills in the Life Sciences (PGM2410)
• AB1 Terrestrial Ecology Fieldcourse (BR36620)
• AB1 Wildlife Forensics (BR15720)

Grader

• AB1 MBiol Research Project (BRM2860)
• AB1 Principles of Research Design (PGM0210)
• AB1 Research Project (BR36440)

Moderator

• AB1 Sgiliau ar gyfer Biolegwyr (BG16820)
• AB1 Skills for Biologists (BR16820)

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