Sir Alan Langlands met Professor John Hillman, director of the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) at the SCRI’s headquarters in Invergowrie to announce a new Joint Strategic Partnership between the institutions.
The agreement will enhance both teaching and research over a wide front encompassing molecular ecology, soil microbiology, environmental genomics, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, ethics, food science and healthcare.
At this stage in the partnership, SCRI and the Faculty of Life Sciences have integrated their research in plant science. Four University research groups from the Division of Environmental and Applied Biology - those headed by John Raven, Claire Halpin, Andy Flavell and Hamlyn Jones - have relocated to the SCRI campus.