Staff Profile

Dr Nick Ashby
Business Manager
Breeding & Genomics

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Dr Nick Ashby

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), Crop Protection, Bath University, UK
PhD, Entomology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Certificate, Advanced Management, New Zealand Institute of Management, New Zealand
Certificate, Company Direction, New Zealand Institute of Directors, New Zealand

Responsibilities

Current position is Business Manager, Breeding and Genomics with an overview of non standard commercial relationships and strategic (non PVR) IP management in the Breeding & Genomics portfolio.

Background

Jan-Dec 2008 Business Manager, Crop & Food Research, New Zealand
1998-2008 Science Team Leader / Business Manager, Crop & Food Research
1992-1998 Divisional Manager - Plant Improvement, Crop & Food Research
1990-1992 Group Manager - Molecular Genetics and Crop Physiology, Crop & Food Research
1989-1990 Team Leader - Biotechnology and Business Development Manager, DSIR
1987-1989 Group Manager - Food Technology, Biotechnology, Technology Transfer; and Business Development, DSIR
1985-1987 Food Industry Liaison Scientist, DSIR
1981-1985 Officer-in-charge, Plant Diseases Division Station, DSIR    
1972-1981 Scientist, Plant Diseases Division, DSIR

Honours & Awards

Commonwealth Scholar  
DSIR study award and Netherlands Educational Award to study at Research Institute for Plant Protection, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Professional Memberships

Member, New Zealand Institute of Management
Member, NZBio

Key Publications

Ashby, John W. and Jane Pairman. 2002. Modern biotechnology – Intellectual Property issues. Crop & Food Research Confidential Report No. 624. Presented at Intellectual Property Conference, Auckland 2002.
Ashby, John W., Russell A. Genet, John A. D. Anderson and Mark Johnson. 2000. Germplasm enhancement, commercialization and testing of potato cultivars in New Zealand, and research and development exchanges with Australia. (Available online.) Proceedings of the Australian Potato Research, Development and Technology Transfer Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, July 31 - August 2, 2000: 27–30.
Ashby, John W. 1985. Bean leaf roll virus. CMI/AAB Descriptions of Plant Viruses No. 286.
Ashby, John W. and Anastasia Kyriakou. 1983. New plant disease record in New Zealand: Tomato yellow top virus in Lycopersicon lycopersicum L. Karsten ex Farwell. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 26: 401–402.
Ashby, John W. and Anastasia Kyriakou. 1982. Purification and properties of subterranean clover red leaf virus. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 25: 607–612.
Ashby, John W., John D. Fletcher, John A. K. Farrell and Marlon R. Stufkens. 1982. Observations on host preferences and epidemiology of aphid species associated with legume crops. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 25: 267–272.
Ashby, John W. and Harm Huttinga. 1979. Purification and some properties of pea leafroll virus. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 85: 113–23.
Ashby, John W., Paik Beng Teh and Ronald C. Close. 1979. Symptomatology of subterranean clover red leaf virus and its incidence in some legume crops, weed hosts, and certain alate aphids in Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 22: 361–5.
Ashby, John W., Richard L. S. Forster, John D. Fletcher and Paik Beng Teh. 1979. A survey of sap-transmissible viruses of lucerne in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 22: 637–40.