David Baulcombe
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Born | David Charles Baulcombe 7 April 1952[7] Solihull, West Midlands |
Nationality | British |
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Spouse | Rose Eden (m. 1976)[7] |
Children | 1 son, 3 daughters[7] |
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Thesis | The Processing and Intracellular Transport of Messenger RNA in a Higher Plant (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | John Ingle[4] |
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Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci[9][10] (born 1952)[7] is a British plant scientist and geneticist. As of 2017[update] he is a Royal Society Research Professor. From 2007 to 2020 he was Regius Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.[3][11][12][13]
Education
David Baulcombe was born in Solihull, West Midlands (then Warwickshire). He received his Bachelor of Science degree in botany from the University of Leeds in 1973 at the age of 21. He continued his studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1977 for research on Messenger RNA in vascular plants supervised by John Ingle.[4]
Career and research
After his PhD, Baulcombe spent the following three years as a
He serves on several committees and study sections,
Baulcombe's research interests and contributions to science are mainly in the fields of virus movement,
With Andrew Hamilton he discovered the
With other members of his research group at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Baulcombe also helped unravel the importance of small interfering RNA in epigenetics and in defence against viruses.
Honours and awards
In June 2009, Baulcombe was awarded a
- 1997 elected to EMBO Membership[1]
- 2001 elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[9][10]
- 2002 elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2002 recipient of the Ruth Allen Award, awarded by the American Phytopathological Society
- 2002 recipient of the Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, awarded by the Kumho Cultural Foundation, Korea
- 2003 co-recipient (with Craig Mello, Andrew Fire and Thomas Tuschl) of the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences, awarded by Rockefeller University
- 2004 recipient of the M. W. Beijerinck Virology Prize, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2005 elected Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 co-recipient (with Craig Mello and Andrew Fire) of the Massry Prize, awarded by the Massry Foundation and the University of Southern California
- 2006 recipient of the Royal Society's Royal Medal
- 2008 co-recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, awarded by the Franklin Institute[35]
- 2008 co-recipient (with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun) of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 2008 appointed Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2009 2009 Birthday Honours Listfor services to plant science.
- 2009 recipient of the Harvey Prize, granted by the Technion Israeli Institute for Technology.
- 2010 recipient of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
- 2012 Balzan Prize[36] for Epigenetics[2]
- 2014 Gruber Prize in Genetics[37]
- 2015 elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Baulcombe's nomination for the Royal Society reads
David Baulcombe has made an outstanding contribution to the inter-related areas of plant virology, gene silencing and disease resistance. He discovered a specific signalling system and an antiviral defence system in plants. This led to the development of new technologies that promise to revolutionise gene discovery in plant biology.[10]
Personal life
Baulcombe is married and has four children.[7] His interests include music, sailing and hill walking.[14]
References
- ^ a b c "EMBO member: David Baulcombe". people.embo.org. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017.
- ^ a b "David Baulcombe International Balzan Prize Foundation". balzan.org. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d David Baulcombe publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ EThOS uk.bl.ethos.641386.
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.390649.
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.382600.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12688. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- S2CID 4421274.
- ^ a b Anon (2001). "Professor Sir David Baulcombe FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b c "David Baulcombe election certificate EC/2001/03". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014.
- ^ David Baulcombe publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Interview with Professor Baulcombe from in-cites website". in-cites.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2007.
- ^ "Biography from the American Phytopathological Society 2002 Awards (p.4)" (PDF). apsnet.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2011.
- ^ a b c "David Baulcombe cv". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- S2CID 20568141.
- ^ Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences news Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b American Phytopathological Society Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Embo editorial board". nature.com/emboj. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009.
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- S2CID 4355692.
- ^ "No Nobel for You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs: Scientific American Slideshows". scientificamerican. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ Daneholt, Bertil. "Advanced Information: RNA interference". The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2007.
- ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 1.
- ^ "Franklin Medallist David Baulcombe". fi.edu. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
- ^ "Epigenetics researcher a 2012 Balzan prizewinner | Laboratory Product News". Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "2014 Gruber Genetics Prize Press Release | The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2018.