David Baulcombe

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Sir David Baulcombe

Born
David Charles Baulcombe

(1952-04-07) 7 April 1952 (age 71)[7]
Solihull, West Midlands
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseRose Eden (m. 1976)[7]
Children1 son, 3 daughters[7]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe Processing and Intracellular Transport of Messenger RNA in a Higher Plant (1976)
Doctoral advisorJohn Ingle[4]
Doctoral students
Website

Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci[9][10] (born 1952)[7] is a British plant scientist and geneticist. As of 2017 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

Professor of Botany at Cambridge University as a Royal Society Research Professor, taking up his post in September 2007.[16] In 2009, the position was renamed "Regius Professor of Botany". In 2020 he was succeeded by Ottoline Leyser
.

He serves on several committees and study sections,

European Molecular Biology Organisation in 1997[1] and was president of the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology 2003–2004. As of 2007, he is also a senior advisor for The EMBO Journal.[18] He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize
in 2015.

Baulcombe's research interests and contributions to science are mainly in the fields of virus movement,

With Andrew Hamilton he discovered the

Craig Mello and Andrew Fire reported a potent gene silencing effect after injecting double stranded RNA into Caenorhabditis elegans.[31] This discovery was particularly notable because it represented the first identification of the causative agent for the phenomenon. Fire and Mello were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[32]
in 2006 for their work. [33]

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

Queen Elizabeth II.[34]
Baulcombe resides in Norwich. Baulcombe has also received the following honours and awards:

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

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  2. ^ a b "David Baulcombe International Balzan Prize Foundation". balzan.org. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
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    "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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

  10. ^ a b c "David Baulcombe election certificate EC/2001/03". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014.
  11. ^ David Baulcombe publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. ^ "Interview with Professor Baulcombe from in-cites website". in-cites.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2007.
  13. ^ "Biography from the American Phytopathological Society 2002 Awards (p.4)" (PDF). apsnet.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2011.
  14. ^ a b c "David Baulcombe cv". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
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  16. ^ Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences news Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ a b American Phytopathological Society Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ "Embo editorial board". nature.com/emboj. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009.
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  32. ^ "No Nobel for You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs: Scientific American Slideshows". scientificamerican. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  33. ^ Daneholt, Bertil. "Advanced Information: RNA interference". The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2007.
  34. ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 1.
  35. ^ "Franklin Medallist David Baulcombe". fi.edu. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008.
  36. ^ "Epigenetics researcher a 2012 Balzan prizewinner | Laboratory Product News". Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  37. ^ "2014 Gruber Genetics Prize Press Release | The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2018.