NIAB

Professor Mario Caccamo was appointed as the Head of Crop Bioinformatics at NIAB in 2015, Managing Director of NIAB EMR in 2017 and NIAB CEO in October 2021.

A computer scientist by training, Mario has over 20 years’ experience in life science research and big data, including specific projects to apply the latest DNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatics methods to advance scientific understanding of crop genetics and the interaction of agricultural crops with their environment.

Sigrid Heuer has been Head of the Pre-Breeding Department at NIAB in Cambridge since October 2021.

She is a molecular crop physiologist with twenty years of international experience (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia) working towards enhancing abiotic stress tolerance and nutrient use efficiency in rice and wheat, and more recently beans.