Bridget is currently a member of the Oak Decline Research group at Forest Research and has drawn on her molecular pathology background to study plant-pathogen interactions in Acute Oak Decline (AOD) and to develop rapid diagnostic assays (qPCR, LAMP) for oak decline research.
Bridget joined Forest Research in 2018. She obtained her PhD in Botany from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where after she joined the Forest and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) as a Senior Lecturer from 2011 to 2017. Her research focussed on functional genomics of the maize fungal pathogen Exserohilum turcicum.
Bridget Crampton
BSc Hons, MSc, PhD
Pathology Researcher
Tree health
Alice Holt
Alice Holt Lodge
Wrecclesham
Farnham
Surrey
Other Research
- Acute Oak Decline
- Transcriptomic response of oak to AOD under drought and
nutrient limiting conditions. BAC-STOP – Bacterial Plant
Diseases Programme - Role of bacteria in stem bleeding cankers in broadleaf
trees. BAC-STOP –
Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme - Stem microbiome of oak trees displaying a severe stem cracking.
- Hornbeam Decline in the UK.
Peer reviewed journal articles
Crampton, B.G., Plummer, S.J., Kaczmarek, M., McDonald, J.E., Denman, S. 2020. A multiplex real‐time PCR assay enables simultaneous rapid detection and quantification of bacteria associated with acute oak decline.
Plant Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13203
Denman, S., Crampton, B., Kajamuhan, A., McDonald, J. 2019. Pathogen threats to native oaks in the UK. In Action Oak Knowledge review: an assessment of the current evidence on oak health in the UK, identification of evidence gaps and prioritisation of research needs, Quine, C.P., Atkinson, N., Denman, S., Desprez-Loustau, M-L., Jackson, R., Kirby, K. (eds). Action Oak, Haslemere, UK. ISBN 978-1-5272-4193-0