Bevan Weir is a Principal Scientist and the Leader of the Nationally Significant Databases and Collections at New Zealand’s environment-focussed research institute Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. He is also curator of the ICMP, an international culture collection of plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria. He represents Oceania on the Executive committee of the International Mycological Association. Bevan’s research interests are systematics and biology of plant pathogens and has published over 60 research papers. He has had an active role in many of the major incursions of plant pathogens in New Zealand in the past few decades, working closely with central government agencies.