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Education/Academic qualification
Postgraduate, PhD, Evolutionary ecology of pine-mycorrhizal interactions in the Caledonian pinewoods of Scotland, University of Edinburgh
Oct 2016 → Sept 2020
Postgraduate, MSc, Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Imperial College London
2015 → 2016
Undergraduate, BSc, Plant Biology, First Class, University of Aberdeen
Sept 2010 → Jun 2014
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Microbial communities in semi-mature oak trees are resilient to drought, nutrient limitation, and pathogen challenge
Hussain, U., Cambon, M. C., Crampton, B., Subramaniam, S., Kajamuhan, A., Ordoñez, A., Downie, J., Finch, J., Beckmann, M., Brown, N., Elison, A., Brady, C., Vanguelova, E., Denman, S. & McDonald, J. E., 11 Feb 2026, In: Cell host & microbe. 34, 2, p. 344-358.e5 344-358.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluating agar-plating and dilution-to-extinction isolation methods for generating oak-associated microbial culture collections
Ordonez Ordonez, A., Hussain, U., Cambon, M., Golyshin, P., Downie, J. & McDonald, J., 11 Feb 2025, In: ISME Communications. 5, 1, ycaf019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) clamps reduce amplification of host chloroplast and mitochondria rRNA gene sequences and increase detected diversity in 16S rRNA gene profiling analysis of oak-associated microbiota
Hussain, U., Downie, J., Ellison, A., Denman, S., McDonald, J. & Cambon, M. C., 28 Jan 2025, In: Environmental Microbiome. 20, 14.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Location, but not defensive genotype, determines ectomycorrhizal community composition in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings
Downie, J., Taylor, A. F. S., Iason, G., Moore, B., Silvertown, J., Cavers, S. & Ennos, R., 1 May 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 9, p. 4826-4842 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heritable genetic variation but no local adaptation in a pine-ectomycorrhizal interaction
Downie, J., Silvertown, J., Cavers, S. & Ennos, R., 1 May 2020, In: Mycorrhiza. 30, 2-3, p. 185-195 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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