To deliver this extensive range of projects, the NBU team works with eighty highly skilled and qualified scientific colleagues across Fera, representing nine different programmes. As one might expect, many of these personnel are specialists in pest and disease identification. Others, however, work in Knowledge Management (e.g. to support BeeBase), environmental risk, crop and food security, contaminants and authenticity, wildlife and emerging diseases and detection and analysis of chemical residues.

The NBU engages with many institutes and universities, both in the UK and overseas (EU and non-EU).

External links to examples of UK collaborators:

• University of Exeter
• University of Liverpool
• University of Leeds
• University of Sheffield
• Newcastle University, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/ [LINK NOT WORKING]
• University of Reading
• Durham University [LINK NOT WORKING]
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Bath, http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/ [LINK NOT WORKING]
• University of Surrey
• The University of York
• The University of Nottingham
• University of Warwick
• Rothamsted Research

Examples of overseas collaborating institutes include:

• Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
• USDA Beltsville
• University of Georgia
• ARC South Africa
• University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
• ANSES France
• CNRS France
• CVUA Freiburg
• University of Chiang Mai Thailand