Dr. R. Jordan Price

Bioinformatician and Molecular Biologist

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NIAB

Cambridge, UK

Hi! I’m Jordan 👋

  • I’m a molecular biologist turned bioinformatician.
  • I am currently a junior group leader at NIAB in Cambridge, UK.
  • My research focusses on functional genomics and biotechnology of fungi important for food, viticulture and agriculture.
  • I use a combination of molecular and computational approaches to understand the links between genome evolution and biological traits.
  • I also dabble in plant genomics.

Currently learning:

  • Nextflow pipeline development
  • Running local LLMs with RAG

news

Mar 25, 2025 Our latest research on the genetic basis of highly branched C-variant mutants in Fusarium venenatum has just been published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology!
Feb 04, 2025 Happy to announce that our research into apricot-coloured raspberries is now published in PLOS ONE
Feb 02, 2025 EDA Dashboard web app published
Dec 23, 2024 New mycoprotein pre-print available
Oct 18, 2024 Our paper on the effects of developmental regulators on strawberry regeneration has just been published in Plant Methods.

selected publications

  1. Mutation of the LRG1 Rho-GAP gene is responsible for the hyper branching C-variant phenotype in the quorn mycoprotein fungus Fusarium venenatum A3/5
    John Connell , Helen J. Bates , Ivey Geoghegan , Fiona Wilson , Richard J. Harrison , and R. Jordan Price
    Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 2025
  2. A CACTA-like transposon in the Anthocyanidin synthase 1 (Ans-1) gene is responsible for apricot fruit colour in the raspberry (Rubus idaeus) cultivar ‘Varnes’
    Daniel James Sargent , Matteo Buti , Stefan Martens , Claudio Pugliesi , Kjersti Aaby , Dag Røen , Chandra Bhan Yadav , Felicidad Fernández Fernández , Muath Alsheikh , Jahn Davik , and R. Jordan Price
    PLOS ONE, Feb 2025
  3. Comparative genomics and transcriptomics reveal differences in effector complement and expression between races of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae
    Helen J. Bates , Jamie Pike , R. Jordan Price, Sascha Jenkins , John Connell , Andrew Legg , Andrew Armitage , Richard J. Harrison , and John P. Clarkson
    Frontiers in Plant Science, Oct 2024
  4. Chromosome-scale genome sequence assemblies of the ‘Autumn Bliss’ and ‘Malling Jewel’ cultivars of the highly heterozygous red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) derived from long-read Oxford Nanopore sequence data
    R. Jordan Price, Jahn Davik , Felicidad Fernandéz Fernandéz , Helen J. Bates , Samantha Lynn , Charlotte F. Nellist , Matteo Buti , Dag Røen , Nada Šurbanovski , Muath Alsheikh , Richard J. Harrison , and Daniel James Sargent
    PLOS ONE, May 2023
  5. Chromatin Profiling of the Repetitive and Nonrepetitive Genomes of the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans
    R. Jordan Price, Esther Weindling , Judith Berman , and Alessia Buscaino
    mBio, May 2019