
Dr Andy Bailey
B.Sc.(Bristol), Ph.D.(Sheff.)
Current positions
Reader in Molecular Mycology
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
- Fungal Molecular Genetics
- Fungal Genomics
- Plant Pathology
- Fungicide Research
- Insect Pathology
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Developing Impact in Equitable and Transformative Partnership Working With Africa
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024
Nutritional risks from vector-borne plant viral disease
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/10/2023 to 17/05/2024
CONNECTED subaward - Characterisation of CBSV
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
04/10/2018 to 31/12/2021
CONNECTED subaward - Unifying CBSV Surveillance
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
04/10/2018 to 31/12/2021
Exploring Nature's Silent Pharmacy
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/09/2016 to 31/08/2020
Thesis supervisions
Synthetic Strategies to Natural Antibiotics and Novel Derivatives
Supervisors
Investigating RNA silencing and mycoviruses in Botrytis cinerea : could host-mediated gene silencing prevent the use of mycoviruses for the biological control of Botrytis cinerea?
Supervisors
Cross-kingdom interactions between Candida albicans and bacterial species Streptomyces and Staphylococcus aureus
Supervisors
Attempts to enhance production of pleuromutilin via heterologous expression of the pleuromutilin biosynthesis gene cluster in various host systems
Supervisors
The role of RiPP proteins in plant pathogenic fungi
Supervisors
Getting to the root of the problem
Supervisors
Using viral infectious clones to study Cassava brown streak disease in its native host Manihot esculenta and exploring the role of viral Ham1 proteins
Supervisors
Biosynthetic studies on maleidride natural products
Supervisors
Ultraviolet – B -mediated control of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR (PIF) transcription in Arabidopsis thaliana
Supervisors
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) and cassava brown streak disease
Supervisors
The Control of Stomoxys calcitrans (Stable Flies) with Essential Oils
Supervisors
Development of high throughput SNP marker panels for genotyping of pathogenic bacteria
Supervisors
Developing plant chassis for heterologous expression of the pleuromutilin biosynthetic gene cluster
Supervisors
Combatting Armillaria using endophytic Trichoderma
Supervisors
Genetic manipulation of Rhizobium for tolerance to heat, acid and salt stress in soils impacted by climatic variability
Supervisors
Using bioengineering approaches to express halophyte genes that enhance salt tolerance gene expression in tobacco
Supervisors
Biosynthetic Studies and Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Pleuromutilin Antibiotics
Supervisors
Investigating the function of Cassava brown streak virus and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus ham1 proteins during infection
Supervisors
Studies Towards the Elucidation of the Function of the Cassava Brown Streak Virus HAM1h Protein
Supervisors
Characterising Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) resistance conferred by the introgression of the gene Bdv2 in wheat cv. RGT Wolverine
Supervisors
Use of infectious clones to gain insights into Cassava brown streak virus gene function
Supervisors
Measuring and interpreting the energy budget of the tick, Ixodes ricinus
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
02/07/2026Automating Plasmid Construction for High-Throughput Heterologous Expression of Fungal Gene Clusters
Metabolic Gene Clusters
Emerging trends in genome integration tools for precision engineering of diverse bacterial species
Synthetic Biology
Building capacity in vector-borne plant virus research
Plants People Planet
In vivo and in vitro investigations provide insights into maleidride biosynthesis in fungi
RSC Advances
Analysis of Trichoderma as an effective biological control agent against the honey fungus (Armillaria spp.)
Biological Control


