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

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

Lecturer

Coordinator

Tutor

Grader

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