Meet the Team

Project Leader

Dr James Price in a field of potatoes
James Price
Project Leader and Work Package 2 Lead: Decision Support (DSS)
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 1 Leader

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Steven Thomson
Work Package 1 Lead: Economics
Scotland’s Rural College

Work Package 2 Leader 

Dr James Price in a field of potatoes
James Price
Project Leader and Work Package 2 Lead: Decision Support (DSS)
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 3 Leader

Ingo Hein Work Package 3 Leader
Ingo Hein
Work Package 3 Lead: Resistance Marker Development
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 4 Leader

Headshot of Dr Sharma
Sanjeev Kumar Sharma
Work Package 4 Lead: Dihaploid induction
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 5 Leader

John Jones Leader of Work Package 5
John Jones
Work Package 5 Lead: Mechanistic understanding of tolerance to PCN
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 6 Leader

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Jim Wilson
Managing Director SoilEssentials Ltd.
SoilEssentials

Work Package 7 Leader

Eric Anderson work package 7 leader
Eric Anderson
Senior Agronomist for Scottish Agronomy
Scottish Agronomy

Work Package 8 Leader

Picture of WP8 Lead Dr Kerry Leslie
Kerry Leslie
Potato Consultant and Nematologist at SAC Consulting
SRUC

Work Package 9 Leader

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Jon Pickup
Senior Nematologist
SASA