Major Fields of Interest: Plant cell and molecular biology; genetic DNA Markers; Chromosomes; genomics; epigenetics; chromatin; centromeres; genome evolution; diversity; Hyperspectral imaging; Molecular biology and molecular cytogenetics; Genomics and functional genomics; Retrotransposons and transposons; Repetitive DNA structure and function; virus-nuclear genome interactions; meiosis and recombination. Species include wheat, cereals, gymnosperms, banana, Brassicas, oil palm, bovines, cattle, Drosophila; Reproduction, relationships and evolution; Systems biology, Crop plant evolution; Plant breeding; Food security; biotic and abiotic stress. Pedagogy, teaching, networks and assessment; exploitation and commercialization of research. Techniques include in situ and Southern hybridization, cell biology, genetics and marker technology, genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology and sequence analysis, fluorescence and electron microscopy.

2008-Present Part-time job Overseas Distinguished Scholar of South China Botanical Garden

2000-Present Professor of Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Cytogenetics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, UK.

1990-2000 Group Leader, Karyobiology Group, John Innes Centre, Norwich; 1991 Principal Research Scientist / Unified Grade 7 1996 Individual Merit, Senior Principal (UG6/Band 3)

1987-1990 Staff Member -senior Scientific Officer, Institute Plant Science Research, Cambridge 1986-1987 BP Venture Research Fellow, Plant Breeding Institute; PI: Nuclear Architecture 1983-1986 Research Fellow, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge and Plant Breeding Institute

Full list please browser https://www.le.ac.uk/biology/phh4/titles.html

348. Escudeiro A, Adega F, Robinson TJ, Heslop-Harrison JS, Chaves R. 2019. Conservation, divergence and functions of centromeric satellite DNA families in the Bovidae. Genome Biology and Evolution (in press March 2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz061

347. Liu Q, Li XY, Zhou XY, Li MZ, Zhang FJ, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2019. The DNA landscape in Avena: Chromosome and genome evolution defined by major repetitive DNA classes in whole-genome sequence reads. BMC Plant Biology 19: 226.

346. Escudeiro A, Adega F, Robinson TJ, Heslop-Harrison JS, Chaves R. 2019. Conservation, divergence and functions of centromeric satellite DNA families in the Bovidae. Genome Biology and Evolution (in press March 2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz061

345. Escudeiro A, Ferreira D, Mendes-da-Silva A, Heslop-Harrison JS, Adega F, Chaves R. 2019. Bovine satellite DNAs–a history of the evolution of complexity and its impact in the Bovidae family. European Zoological Journal 86: 20-37.

344. Sepsi A, Fábián A, Jäger K, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2018. ImmunoFISH: simultaneous visualisation of proteins and DNA sequences gives insight into meiotic processes in nuclei of grasses. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: article 1193. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00717

343. Velmurugan J, Milbourne D, Connolly V, Heslop-Harrison JS, Anhalt UC, Lynch MB, Barth S. 2018. An immortalized genetic mapping population for perennial ryegrass: a resource for phenotyping and complex trait mapping. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: article 717. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00717

342. Mhiret WN, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018. Biodiversity in Ethiopian linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.): molecular characterization of landraces and some wild species. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 65: 1603-1614. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-018-0636-3 and author version https://molcyt.wordpress.com/?p=1301&preview=true

341. Mustafa SI, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018. Complete mitogenomes from Kurdistani sheep: abundant centromeric nuclear copies representing diverse ancestors. Mitochondrial DNA Part A https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2018.1431226 (publisher – or limited free publisher link http://www.tandfonline.com/eprintREMOVE/YSxE33mSJiBMVEuMXIyv/full) AND Mustafa et al_2018 AuthorVersion

341.Mustafa SI, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018.Complete mitogenomes from Kurdistani sheep: abundant centromeric nuclear copies representing diverse ancestors.Mitochondrial DNA Part Ahttps://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2018.1431226(publisher – or limited free publisher link http://www.tandfonline.com/eprintREMOVE/YSxE33mSJiBMVEuMXIyv/full) ANDMustafa et al_2018 AuthorVersion

340.Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.Morphology, adaptation and speciation.Annals of Botany120(7): 621-624.https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx130

339.Gouveia JG, Wolf IR, Vilas-Boas LA, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Dias AL. 2017.Repetitive DNA in the catfish genome: rDNA, microsatellites, and Tc1-mariner transposon sequences in Imparfinis species (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae).Journal of Heredity108(6): 650-657.https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx065

338.Nouroz FA, Noreen SH, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.Identification and evolutionary dynamics of CACTA DNA transposons in Brassica.Pakistan Journal of Botany49(2): 789-798.https://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/49(2)/51.pdf

337.Alix K, Gérard PR, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants.Annals of Botany120: 183-194.https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx079

336.Nouroz F, Noreen S, Khan MF, Ahmed S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.Identification and characterization of mobile genetic elements LINEs fromBrassicagenomes.Gene627: 94-105.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2017.06.015

335. Otwe EP, Agyirifo DS, Galyuon IK, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.Molecular Diversity in some Ghanaian Cowpea [Vigna unguiculataL.(Walp)] Accessions.Tropical Plant Biology10 (2-3):57-67.https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12042-017-9184-9

334. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Ahmad H, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017.The landscape and structural diversity of LTR retrotransposons inMusagenomes.Molecular Genetics and Genomics292(5):1051-1067.https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00438-017-1333-1

333. Salih RHM, Majeský L, Schwarzacher T, Gornall R, Heslop-Harrison P. 2017. Complete chloroplast genomes from apomictic Taraxacum(Asteraceae): identity and variation between three microspecies. PLoS One12(2): e0168008. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168008

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