Partner 4.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) -
United Kingdom

http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/Welcome.html

Contact persons
Rowan McKibbin
ERA-PG coordinator United Kingdom, UK call coordinator

Dr. Alfred Game
Head of Plants Microbes and Genetics Branch. BBSRC
National Steering Committee (NSC) member

Mr. Jan Chojecky
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Workgroup

Dr. Robbie Waugh
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland
http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/
Scientific representative

Prof. Dr. Ottoline Leyser
Scientific representative

Dr. Ruth Bastow (GARNet)
GARNet coordinator

About BBSRC
BBSRC is the leading UK funding agency for academic research and training in the non-clinical life sciences. The research council funds, manages and coordinates several plant genomics programmes: CropNet, CropNet Bioinformatics and GARNet (Arabidopsis). It is funded from the Government's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). BBSRC's current budget is £400M. It supports a total of around 1600 scientists and 2000 research students in universities and institutes in the UK.