Hayley Craig

I am based in the Faculty of Life Sciences at The University of Manchester and my research is looking at how agricultural runoff affects mangrove plant and soil microbial communities and the implications for nutrient cycling. I am particularly interested in the plant-soil interactions and how genetic diversity affects these interactions. My fieldwork is based in Florida and Central America so there is plenty of exciting travel involved in warmer climates than Manchester! 

I have previously worked in Australia as a contaminated land consultant and more recently as a research technician in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology looking at evolutionary barley genetic adaptations linked to the spread of agriculture across Europe. 

You can follow my research on twitter @hayzleypop