Nicola Spence
British biologist
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Nicola Spence's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of Oxford
- PhD Molecular Biology Imperial College London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicola Jane Spence is the Chief Plant Health Officer and Deputy Director for plant and bee health at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Early life and education Spence was educated at The Mount School, York and Bridlington School. She obtained a BSc in Botany from the University of Durham. Before starting her Masters, Spence volunteered at the Bermuda Marine Biology Research Institute then worked as a tutor for O level and A level students, and was unsure if she wanted to pursure a career in research. Spence undertook a Msc Microbiology from Birkbeck College, which she states 'turned out to be the best decision I made at the start of my career.' Spence then obtained a PhD in Plant Virology from the University of Birmingham, her thesis was entitled The identification, distribution and ecology of bean common mosaic virus in Africa.
Nicola Spence's Published Works
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- State of the World’s Plants and Fungi (2020) (44)
- State of the world’s plants and fungi 2020 (2020) (38)
- How the global threat of pests and diseases impacts plants, people, and the planet (2019) (17)
- Current knowledge, status, and future for plant and fungal diversity in Great Britain and the UK Overseas Territories (2020) (10)
- 80 questions for UK biological security (2021) (6)
- Implementation of the GB Plant Health and Biosecurity Strategy 2014–2019 with foresight on a new strategy for 2020 (2020) (6)
- Bean root rot disease management in Uganda. Final Technical Report. (2005) (4)
- A critical evaluation of how free trade zones and maritime activities impact on port development: a case study of the port of Kingston (2017) (2)
- Management of Virus Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Kenya (2003) (2)
- A RapidMiner framework for protein interaction extraction (2010) (2)
- The privatisation of New Zealand forests (1997) (1)
- The New Zealand forest model : A possible solution (1997) (0)
- Overview of studies on wild crop relatives of lettuce carried out within the framework of the EU project GENE-MINE (2008) (0)
- Using International Trade Data to Inform the Plant Health and Biosecurity Response in the UK (2020) (0)
- Redistribution of Power and its Effects on Foreign Direct Investment (1998) (0)
- Management of virus diseases of important vegetable crops in Kenya. Final Technical Report. (2003) (0)
- Promotion of quality vegetable seed in Kenya. Final Technical Report. (2003) (0)
- The Unknown Factor to Forestry Investment in New Zealand (1998) (0)
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