
Dr Leighton Pritchard
Senior Lecturer
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
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Publications
- 'What's in a name? Fit-for-purpose bacterial nomenclature' : meeting report
- Patrick Sheila, Filkins Laura, Goker Markus, Holden Nicola, Hoskisson Paul A, Kiepas Angelika, Meehan Conor, Pallen Mark, Pritchard Leighton, Suchanek Amanda L, Sutcliffe Iain, Trujillo Martha E, Tucker Nicholas, Turnbull Jake D, Butler-Wu Susan
- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Vol 75 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006844
- Carbohydrate active enzymes in Pectobacteriaceae : coevolving enzyme sets and host adaptation
- Hobbs Emma, Gloster Tracey, Pritchard Leighton
- ISMB/ECCB 2025 (2025)
- Objective benchmarking and recommendations for Overall Genome Relatedness Index (OGRI) methods
- Pritchard Leighton
- ISMB/ECCB 2025 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29554013
- Oxidative stress tolerance in the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae
- Harper Chloe, Piat Julianna, Sanguankiattichai Nattapong, Pritchard Leighton, Uphoff Stephan, Preston Gail
- 2025 IS-MPMI Congress (2025)
- From bacterial microcompartments to plant biofactories
- Monserrat RelaƱo Julia, Pritchard Leighton, Orr Douglas
- Gordon Research Conference: Plant Metabolic Engineering (2025)
- pyANI-plus
- Pritchard Leighton, Cock Peter, Kiepas Angelika
- (2025)
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Professional Activities
- pyANI-plus: whole genome classification of microbes with Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) and similar methods
- Contributor
- 21/7/2025
- R For Reproducible Scientific Analysis "Carpentries" workshop
- Organiser
- 16/6/2025
- Journal of Open Source Software (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 12/5/2025
- PhD Committee - Virginia Tech
- Examiner
- 31/1/2025
- Access Microbiology (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 22/8/2024
- Family disagreements: what do conflicts between whole-genome, core gene, MLST and 16S classifications tell us about Streptomyces?
- Contributor
- 18/4/2023
Projects
- BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Collaborative Proposal: genomeRxiv: a microbial whole-genome database and diagnostic marker design resource for classification, identification, and data sharing
- Pritchard, Leighton (Principal Investigator)
- 08-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
- Targeted Innovation in the UK Seed Potato Industry to Improve Productivity and Quality
- Pritchard, Leighton (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
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Dr
Leighton
Pritchard
Senior Lecturer
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Email: leighton.pritchard@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4962