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Staff Directory
Find information on key SASA staff and their work through the links below. You can sort by first name, surname, email address or telephone number. Alternatively use the keywords search box or select a section from the drop-down box and click Apply.
Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of SASA staff.
View the organisation chart for an overview of the structure.
| First name |
Surname |
Job Title |
|---|---|---|
| Denise | A'Hara | Head of Potato |
| Laura | Bowden | Seed Physiologist |
| Jane | Chard | Head of Plant Biosecurity and Inspections |
| Valerie | Cockerell | Head of Official Seed Testing Station for Scotland |
| Triona | Davey | Potato Export Research Manager |
| John | Ellicott | Potato Export Liaison Officer & Seed Potato Classification Scheme Technical Manager |
| Gill | Hartley | Senior Wildlife Biologist |
| Jacqueline | Hughes | Acting Head of Pesticides |
| David | Kenyon | Head of Diagnostics, Wildlife & Molecular Biology |
| John | Kerr | Head of Seeds, Varieties & Pesticides; Senior Management Team |
| Christophe | Lacomme | Senior Virologist |
| Marian | McEwan | Seed Pathologist |
| Gillian | McLaren | Seed Testing/Quality Manager |
| Laura | Melton | Senior Analyst |
| Vincent | Mulholland | Molecular Biology Unit Manager |
| Kevin | O'Donnell | Head of SASA |
| Mike | Parker | Head of Seed Certification |
| Jon | Pickup | Head of Virology & Zoology |
| Alex | Reid | Head of Genotyping |
| Kirsty | Reid | Senior Analyst |
| Gerry | Saddler | Head of Potato and Plant Health; Senior Management Team |
| Alexandra | Schlenzig | Senior Plant Pathologist |
| Support | Services | - |
| Mike | Taylor | Head of Pesticides (currently on secondment) |
| Lucy | Webster | Senior Molecular Biologist - Wildlife DNA Forensics |
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