People

Hickmott, David

Job Title Curation Assistant
Department Seed Conservation
Section Curation
Science Teams Millennium Seed Bank Project
Joined Kew 2005
Foreign Language(s)

Qualifications & Appointments

Role

Seed cleaning, x-raying, banking, germination testing, accessioning & harvesting of regeneration material.

Initial receipt and assessment of incoming collections, followed by the cleaning, x-raying, counting, banking and germination testing of new accessions. If necessary, regeneration and harvesting of relevant collections is performed. Compilation and data entering of monthly statistics. In addition, research into dormancy issues in Haloragaceae.