Dr Dylan Phillips

PhD

Dr Dylan Phillips

Lecturer

Department of Life Sciences

Contact Details

Teaching

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I have gained over 10 years of teaching experience and currently lecture about all things genetics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I have the pleasure of being the scheme coordinator for the Genetics degree (C400 & C401); and supervise a number of research students undertaking their PhD projects. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Editor for the journal Genome. I am actively involved in the development and delivery of the distance learning schemes that IBERS offers. These courses deliver innovative training modules tailored to the needs of the agri-food industry, ensuring businesses have the resilience required to meet future challenges of climate change and economic pressures.

Research

I completed my PhD at Aberystwyth and have since continued my research which focuses on understanding and manipulating the meiotic DNA repair pathways in a range of key crop species. These complex repair pathways are responsible for generating the genetically diverse populations that plant breeders select their elite lines from. The aim of the research is to enhance the transferred important traits from diverse germplasm into commercial varieties. Genome editing technology has already had a dramatic effect on how research is performed and will undoubtedly revolutionise the way plant breeding is performed. I am involved in the development and implementation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology in IBERS, and have a keen interest in improving current plant transformation methods.

Research Groups

  • Forage Crops

Publications

Nibau, C, Evans, A, King, H, Phillips, DW & Lloyd, A 2024, 'Homoeologous crossovers are distally biased and underlie genomic instability in first-generation neo-allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica', New Phytologist. 10.1111/nph.20095
Patel, J, Khatri, K, Khandwal, D, Gupta, NK, Choudhary, B, Hapani, D, Koshiya, J, Syed, SN, Phillips, DW, Jones, HD & Mishra, A 2024, 'Modulation of physio-biochemical and photosynthesis parameters by overexpressing SbPIP2 gene improved abiotic stress tolerance of transgenic tobacco', Physiologia Plantarum, vol. 176, no. 3, e14384. 10.1111/ppl.14384
Freeland, LV, Phillips, DW & Jones, HD 2024, 'Precision Breeding and Consumer Safety: A Review of Regulations for UK Markets', Agriculture, vol. 14, no. 8, 1306. 10.3390/agriculture14081306
Khatri, K, Patel, J, Adams, JMM, Jones, HD & Phillips, DW 2023, 'Functional genomic and transformation resources for commercially important red macroalgae (Rhodophyta)', Algal Research, vol. 74, 103227. 10.1016/j.algal.2023.103227
Nibau, C, Gonzalo, A, Evans, A, Sweet-Jones, W, Phillips, D & Lloyd, A 2022, 'Meiosis in allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica', Plant Journal, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 1110-1122. 10.1111/tpj.15879
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