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James is Laboratory Manager for the Tree Health Pathology, Entomology and Advisory laboratories in the Main building at Alice Holt, providing fundamental facilities and support for research and responsive diagnostic services that contribute to Forest Research. He has graduated from the Forestry Commission’s Professional Manager Programme.

He joined Forest Research as a Pathology Diagnostic Research Assistant in the Tree Health Research Group in 2017 working on Phytophthora ramorum. Until July 2022 he worked as a Research Scientist on Dothistroma needle blight and Heterobasidion using molecular analysis techniques,

James completed his Masters by Research in 2022 with the University of Exeter, whilst working at Forest Research. He graduated from the University of the West of England, Bristol, with a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences in 2017 after working on influenza C virus at APHA using molecular techniques during his placement year.

Affiliations

  • Member of the Microbiology Society
  • Member of the Royal Society of Biology
  • Member of the British Society for Plant Pathology
Laboratory Manager James Snowden

James Snowden

BSc (Hons), MbyRes
Laboratory Manager Tree Health Laboratories
Tree health

Alice Holt

Alice Holt Lodge

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

Other Research

Peer reviewed journal articles

Tubby, K., Forster, J., Mullett, M., Needham, R., Smith, O., Snowden, J. and McCartan, S. (2023) Can the Seed Trade Provide a Potential Pathway for the Global Distribution of Foliar Pathogens? An Investigation into the Use of Heat Treatments to Reduce Risk of Dothistroma septosporum Transmission via Seed Stock. J. Fungi, 9, 1190, 2023 DOI: 10.3390/jof9121190

Snowden, J.C., Studholme, D. and Tubby, K. (2020) Molecular and Behavioral Characterization and Identification of Dothistroma Species in Britain and New Zealand, Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2020, Edinburgh

Daudu, J., Snowden, J.C., Tubby, K., Coutts, R and Kotta-Loizou, I. (2019) Studying a mycovirus from Dothistroma septosporum, causative agent of pine needle blight. Access Microbiology, 1:1A https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.ac2019.po0502

Daudu, J., Snowden, J.C., Tubby, K., Coutts, R and Kotta-Loizou, I. (2019) Studying a mycovirus from Dothistroma septosporum, causative agent of pine needle blight. Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2019. Paper A076. Belfast. April 2019.

Snowden, J.C. and Tubby, K. (2019) Review of diagnostic research on Dothistroma (red) needle blight in the UK. U.K. Forest Pathology Meeting 2019. John Innes Centre. Lanivet, Cornwall UK.

Nash, B., Coward, V., Hill, H., Kelly, M., Snowden, J., Brookes, S.M., Webby, R., Eckard, L., Brown, I.H. (2015) Influenza C in the UK bovine population and its correlation with cases of bovine pneumonia as a possible causative agent. International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Diseases, 3rd International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses. Athens, GA USA.