EricBelfield.gif
Dr Eric Belfield
Research & Project Manager with Prof. Nicholas Harberd

E-mail:
  eric.belfield@plants.ox.ac.uk

Tel  +44 (0)1865 275000

Last Modified: March 2012

Dr E Belfield

Research Area

Using genome-era technologies in plant science

Research Description

I’m involved with a project, 'Crop-plant Domestication in the Genome-Biology Era', that is a $9.7m grant from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. I am the Project Manager of this large grant that uses next-generation sequencing platforms to determine the genetic variations in interesting wheat varieties to generate new varieties that have increased tolerance of salinity and other environmental stresses.
 
Roles in the department:
- Biological Safety Officer
- Growth Facilities Manager
 
Committee membership:
- Biological Safety
- Growth Facilities
- Safety Committee

Publications

Gan, X, Stegle, O, Behr, J, Steffen, J.G, Drewe, P, Hildebrand, K.L, Lyngsoe, R, Schultheiss, S.J, Osborne, E.J, Sreedharan, V.T, Kahles, A, Bohnert, R, Jean, G, Derwent, P, Kersey, P, Belfield, E.J, Harberd, N.P, Kemen, E, Toomajian, C, Kover, P.X, Clark, R.M, Ratsch, G, Mott, R. (2011) Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. 

Nature 477, 419–423 (22 September 2011)

Jiang, C, Mithani, A, Gan, X, Belfield, E. J, Klingler, J, P, Zhu, J.-K, Ragoussis, J, Mott, R, Harberd, N. P. Regenerant Arabidopsis Lineages Display a Distinct Genome-Wide Spectrum of Mutations Conferring Variant Phenotypes. Current Biology. (2011) Volume 21, Issue 16, 23 August 2011, Pages 1385-1390


Harberd, N.P, Belfield, E, Yasumura, Y. (2009) The angiosperm gibberellin-GID1-DELLA growth regulatory mechanism: How an "inhibitor of an inhibitor" enables flexible response to fluctuating environments Plant Cell. 21 (5): pp 1328-1339.


Full Publication List (while at this department)

Harberd, N.P, Belfield, E, Yasumura, Y. (2009) The angiosperm gibberellin-GID1-DELLA growth regulatory mechanism: How an "inhibitor of an inhibitor" enables flexible response to fluctuating environments Plant Cell. 21 (5): pp 1328-1339.
doi:10.1105/tpc.109.066969.

Skills