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		Dr J. William Allwood

Dr J. William Allwood
PDRA EU META-PHOR project,
School of Chemistry,
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre,
The University of Manchester,
131 Princess Street,
Manchester,

M1 7DN

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Dr J. William Allwood

Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester,

131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK

Tel: +44 (0)161 306 5138

E-mail: William.Allwood@manchester.ac.uk

Place of birth: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK

Date of birth: 1st September, 1979

Education

Bishops Castle Community College

Ten GCSE’s and three A levels in Chemistry, Biology and Geography

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

BSc (Hons) Microbiology Class 2:1, with First class dissertation (87%) on the rapid characterisation of urinary tract infection bacteria using MALDI-TOF-MS and multivariate analysis.

PhD Metabolomics / Plant pathology; thesis title 'Plant-pathogen interactions are a biochemically rich, novel and challenging target for metabolomic approaches'. This was under the guidance and supervision of Dr Luis A.J. Mur and Prof. Roy Goodacre. We developed a novel dual-metabolomics system based upon the biochemical analysis of both pathogen and host during the interaction of Arabidopsis thaliana with various strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. We also generated metabolomic profiles from; Brachypodium distachyon plants when challenged by pathogenic and resistance eliciting strains of Magnaporthe grisea (rice blast disease), and from genetically modified A. thaliana plants expressing individual bacterial avirulence genes under the control of chemical induced gene switches.

Publications

Biais, B. & Allwood, J.W., Deborde, C., Xu, Y., Maucourt, M., Beauvoit, B., Dunn, W.B., Jacob, D., Goodacre, R., Rolin, D., Moing, A. (2009). ¹H-NMR, GC-EI-TOFMS, and dataset correlation for fruit metabolomics: application to spatial metabolite analysis in melon. Anal. Chem. (In Press – Full Text).

Allwood, J.W., Ellis, D.I., Goodacre, R. (2008). Metabolomic technologies and their application to the study of plants and plant-host interactions. Physiologia Plantarum 132: 117-135 (Full Text).

Jansen, J.J., Allwood, J.W., Marsden-Edwards, E., van der Putten, W.H., Goodacre, R., van Dam, N.M. (2008). Metabolomic analysis of the interaction between plants and herbivores. Metabolomics 5(1): 150-161 (Full Text)

Ellis, D.I., Dunn, W.B., Griffin, J.L., Allwood, J.W., Goodacre, R. (2007). Metabolic fingerprinting as a diagnostic tool. Pharmacogenomics 8(9): 1243 -1266 (Full Text).

Allwood, J.W., Ellis, D.I., Heald, J.K., Goodacre, R., Mur, L.A.J. (2006). Metabolomic approaches reveal that phosphatidic and phosphatidyl glycerol phospholipids are major discriminatory metabolites in responses by Brachypodium distachyon to challenge by Magnaporthe grisea. The Plant Journal 46: 351-368. (Full Text).

Proceedings:

Allwood, J.W., Brown, D.M., Marsden-Edwards, E., Dunn, W.B, Goodacre, R., Turner, S.R. Metabolomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana secondary Cell Wall Mutants – looking towards improved feed-stocks. Synthetic Plant Products for Industry Network (SPPI-NET) First Workshop (Collingwood College, Durham, UK, 13-14th January, 2009).

Allwood, J.W., Erban, A., de Koning, S., Dunn, W.B., Luedemann, A., Lommen, A., Kay, L., Löscher, R., Kopka, J., Goodacre, R. Poster Presentation: Inter-laboratory reproducibility of fast gas chromatography – electron impact – time of flight mass spectrometry (GC-EI-TOFMS) based plant metabolomics. Genomes 2 Systems (Manchester Central Convention Complex, UK, 17-19th March, 2008). BBSRC Metabolomics Grant Holders Workshop (St Davids Hotel & Spa, Cardiff, UK, 12-13th May, 2008). Dechema: Trends In Metabolomics (Dechema, Frankfurt, DE, 9-10th June, 2008).

Allwood, J.W., Dunn, W.B., Goodacre, R. Poster Presentation: META-PHOR Partner 5 Initial Investigations. The Third International Conference of the Metabolomics Society (University of Manchester, UK, 10-14th June, 2007).

Allwood, J.W., Dunn, W.B., Wong, S.C.C., Jarvis, R., Heald, J.K., Gaskell, S.J., Goodacre, R., Mur L.A.J. Dual metabolomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana cell suspension cultures challenged by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. Plant Science Wales (University of Wales Swansea, 13-14th December, 2004); All Wales Microbiology Meeting (Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 12-13th March, 2005); The First International Conference of the Metabolomics Society (Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Japan, 20-23rd June, 2005).

Allwood, J.W., Ellis, D.I., Heald, J.K., Goodacre, R., Mur, L.A.J. Poster presentation: Metabolomic approaches reveal that phosphatidic and phosphatidyl glycerol phospholipids are major discriminatory metabolites in responses by Brachypodium distachyon to challenge by Magnaporthe grisea. British Society of Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting (University of Nottingham, 15-18th December, 2003) & Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting (Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, 29th March – 2nd April, 2004).

Miscellaneous

I am a member of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) and also the Metabolomics society. My research interests largely focus upon the detection and identification of plant derived metabolites using a combination of the many hyphenated mass spectrometry based techniques available to our group (GC-TOFMS, GCxGC-TOFMS, UPLC-TOFMS/Q-TOFMS, MALDI-TOF-MS, DIMS, FT-ICR-MS, and Thermo Hybrid LTQ OrbiTrap MS system). My research focuses largely upon methodology development and optimisation for plant metabolomic analysis with interest towards nutraceutical and health beneficial metabolites, although I also have sideline interests in biomedical metabolomic collaborations with researchers based at Saint Mary’s Hospital Manchester.

After having been schooled and worked in the picturesque South Shropshire countryside (Bishops Castle) for 20 years, I moved to Aberystwyth (Ceredigion) where I studied for my BSc and PhD. I have since worked as a post-doctoral research associate for the Wheat Pathogenesis team at Rothamsted Research and the Bioanalytical Spectroscopy group at the University of Manchester on an EU funded project, META-PHOR - Metabolomic Technology Applications for Plants, Health and Outreach (Hall, 2007).

My interests outside work include: listening to music (live and recorded) and playing my guitars; reading (mainly non-fiction); comedy (live and recorded); mountain biking and badminton. I have also travelled around many of the European countries as well as Japan and Laos. I enjoy eating out as well as fine malt whiskeys, beers and ales - German beer guide to Manchester.