Rachel Saxon

Telephone: 01631 559268
E-mail: rachel.saxon@sams.ac.uk

Database/Admin Assistant, CCAP

Originally from Manchester, I graduated from Sheffield University with a degree in Biological Sciences in 1998 and have worked in various locations, including a summer as a volunteer on Sherkin Island Marine Station in Ireland, before joining CCAP as Admin/database Assistant in November 2004. My job is to manage all CCAP sales and despatches, maintain the strain holdings data, process strain accessions and patent deposits, and manage and develop the CCAP database and website. We are currently in the process of building an image database for the website, and aim to expand this to contain comprehensive information for each strain in the Collection.

I was involved with CCAP's collaboration in AlgiNet, an EU funded project to coordinate microalgal research and resources across Europe. I also contribute to the FSA Phytoplankton Monitoring project at SAMS, allowing me to occasionally escape my desk and microscopically analyse local seawater samples for harmful algal species.

Publications

• Gachon CMM, Day JG, Campbell CN, Pröschold T, Saxon RJ & Küpper FC (in press) The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP): A biological resource for protistan genomics. Gene.