Professor Huw Jones - Register of Interests

Direct employment.

Aberystwyth University (2016-present).

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

As external examiner of the university PhD viva process, I have sometimes received a small honorarium in addition to travel and accommodation costs from the university hosting the examination (in the last 5 years I have been external examiner for six PhD examinations in UK and abroad),

I have received small payments of royalties from publishers for academic books written or edited.

Shareholdings.

None.

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Member of Royal Soc Biology 2002 - current,

Member of the EPSO Plants for the Future. Gene editing working group 2019 – current,

Member of the Plants for the Future, European Technology Platform. 2020 – current.

Other personal interests.

I am occasionally invited to attend research conferences or other meetings where the travel and accommodation (if applicable) are paid for by the host organisations

Fellowships.

Fellow of Royal Society Biology (2002-present).

Indirect support.

Member of the IBERS Aberystwyth University research team in receipt of a BBSRC Core Strategic Programme Grant -current,

A supervisor for a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellowship. 2024- current,

An academic supervisor for a FoodBioSystems DTP that also has in-kind support from Elsoms Seeds. 2024 – current,

An academic supervisor for a FoodBioSystems DTP that also has in-kind support from Cupid Peptide Company Ltd. 2024 – current.

Trusteeships.

None.

Land and property.

None.

Other public appointments.

Defra committee ACRE (Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment).

Other non-personal interests.

None.

Direct employment.

Rothamsted Research (1998-2016).

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

BBSRC grant review panels 2000 – 2022,

Expert, GMO panel, European Food Safety Authority 2009 – 2018,

Honorary Professor, School of Biosciences, Nottingham University 2009 - 2018.

Shareholdings.

None.

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Chair, UK Plant Sciences Federation Working Group on Regulatory Frameworks (2014-2015),

Monogram Steering Committee (2011-2015).

Other personal interests.

None.

Fellowships.

Honorary researcher, Rothamsted Research UK (2016-2019),

Honorary Professor, School of Biosciences, Nottingham University 2009 – 2018,

Scientific Advisory Board Member China-UK, Huazhong University Science & Technology, Wuhan Joint Research Lab, 2001 – 2009.

Indirect support.

BBSRC/ FSA. ‘Using citizen science to explore plant breeding and investigate food-chain transparency for novel breeding methods’: BB/W009013/1 (2022-2022),

An academic supervisor for a Aberystwyth University/Syngenta PhD studentship, using molecular genetics to design sentinel plants for detecting biotic stress. 2017-2024,

UK representative of an EU COST Action PlantEd Genome editing in plants - a technology with transformative potential 2019- 2022,

UK representative, working group and management committee member of an EU COST Action iPlanta CA15223. Modifying plants to produce interfering RNA 2017-2020,

UK representative, working group and management committee member of an EU COST Action iPlanta CA15223. Modifying plants to produce interfering RNA 2017-2020,

Research funding for a Newton Bhabha Fellowship, IBERS, May – Sept 2019,

Research funding for a Newton Bhabha Fellowship, IBERS, Dec 2020 – March 2021,

Research project: Smart Labels for GMO foods. Aberystwyth University Transforming Social Science Fund. £1K Jan 2017,

Rothamsted Research was in receipt of funding from BBSRC Tools and Resources Development Fund BB/L017768/1. 2014- 2016. HD Jones & K Edwards. Development of specific TALENs for precision engineering in wheat.

Trusteeships.

None.

Land and property.

None.

Other public appointments.

None.

Other non-personal interests.