Neil Brown

Lecturer, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-5765

Phone+44 (0) 1225 383540
EmailN.A.Brown@bath.ac.uk

4 SOUTH 1.53

Accepting Doctoral Students

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Personal profile

Research interests

I am a molecular fungal biologist and BBSRC Future Leader Fellow / Lecturer at the University of Bath. I am motivated to discover new ways to fight major fungal diseases that threaten our food security and health. I focus on the cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum and the food spoilage mould Aspergillus nidulans, which produce harmful toxins that can contaminate our food. A fungal pathogen landing on a plant must decide if it is suitable, where to infect, and when to deploy different virulence strategies. The goal of this research is to discover how fungal pathogens sense the ‘touch and taste’ of their host environment. This research has the applied objective to determine if a pathogen’s sense of ‘touch and taste’ can then be targeted through the development of novel antifungals to prevent disease and toxin contamination.

Education/Academic qualification

Plant Pathogenesis and Crop Protection, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 22 Dec 2011

Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Master of Research, Imperial College London

Award Date: 1 Sep 2007

Applied Biology, Bachelor of Science, University of Bath

Award Date: 1 Jul 2005

External positions

BBSRC Future Leader Fellow, Rothamsted Research

1 Apr 2016 → …

Post-doctoral Researcher, Rothamsted Research

5 Jan 2015 → 31 Mar 2016

CNPq Young Talent Fellow, University of Sao Paulo

1 Apr 2013 → 31 Dec 2014

FAPESP postdoctoral fellow, University of Sao Paulo

2 Jan 2012 → 30 Mar 2013

Keywords

Fungal Pathogenesis
Crop Protection
Mycotoxins
Sensing
Fusarium
Aspergillus

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Projects

1 Active
2 Finished

FAPESP - Bath Scheme 2018

Brown, N. & Goldmanm, G. H.

1/04/19 → 1/04/21

Project: Research-related funding

GCRF - New Tools to Uncover Novel Regulators of Fungal Sex, Disease & Toxin Contamination

Brown, N.

1/12/18 → 31/07/19

Project: Other

Fellowship - Do G-protein coupled receptors regulate pathogenesis any mycotoxin biosynthesis in filamentous phytopathogenic fungi?

Brown, N.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

2/01/18 → 1/12/19

Project: Research council

Research Output

53 Article
4 Review article
1 Chapter
1 Editorial

The Aspergillus fumigatus Phosphoproteome Reveals Roles of High-Osmolarity Glycerol Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases in Promoting Cell Wall Damage and Caspofungin Tolerance

Mattos, E. C., Silva, L. P., Valero, C., de Castro, P. A., Dos Reis, T. F., Ribeiro, L. F. C., Marten, M. R., Silva-Rocha, R., Westmann, C., da Silva, C. H. T. D. P., Taft, C. A., Al-Furaiji, N., Bromley, M., Mortensen, U. H., Benz, J. P., Brown, N. A. & Goldman, G. H., 1 Jan 2020, In : mBio. 11, 1, e02962-19.