We were mostly together for our lab meeting in March 2013.

Missing: Dr John Bailey; PhD students Farah Badakshi (polyploid species), Stuart Desjardins (Knotweed with Dr John Bailey), Worku Mhiret (linseed diversity, working in Ethiopia), Chetan Patokar (PhD student, wheat introgression); and Andy Tock (pre-PhD experience), MSc student Steven Terry (Musa disease genes). Pat Heslop-Harrison took the picture so is not included, and Dr Richard Gornall (Curator of the Herbarium and Director of the Botanic Garden) was also at the meeting and is included in the picture.

Back row: Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka (Visiting research fellow, sustainable wheat and crop diversity, Pakistan), Jotyar Muhammed (PhD student, Aubrieta diversity, Kurdistan, Iraq), Dr Karzan Qadar (Visiting research fellow, Asteraceae diversity, Iraq), Dr Richard Gornall (not molecular cytogenetics group!)

Front row: Dr Zubeda Chaudhry (Visiting research fellow, Musa disease resistance genes, Pakistan), Nauf Alsayaid (PhD student, Crocus and saffron, Saudi Arabia), Zhuoxin Zhang (PhD student with Richard Gornall, lab work in molcyt lab., Saxifrage, China), Dr Trude Schwarzacher (PI), Valentina Scrocca (Erasmus scholar), Dr Lory Francescut (technician), Pavandeep Pabla (MSc student), Rubar Hussaien (PhD student, apomictic Asteraceae, Kurdistan, Iraq)

We had another event together in July 2013 and this group is here!

Molecular Cytogenetics Group July 2013