Jean Beggs
Jean Beggs CBE (2006) | |
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Fields | Gene cloning in yeast, RNA splicing |
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Jean Duthie Beggs
Biography
Beggs was born Jean Duthie Lancaster on 16 April 1950 to Jean Crawford (née Duthie) and William Renfrew Lancaster.
Her research interests are in RNA splicing.[6]
In 1972 she married Dr Ian Beggs. They have two sons.[1]
Awards and honours
She has been a
In 2003, she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".[9]
She received a CBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to science.[10]
She was the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vice President for Life Sciences from 2009 to 2012.
In 2016 she was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of St Andrews.[11]
In 2018 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Who's who (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2017.
- ^ "Jean Beggs profile". eurasnet.info. EURASNET. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ Jean Beggs publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c "Meet the team | The Beggs Lab". beggs.bio.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Jean Beggs". wcb.ed.ac.uk. Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Biology.ed.ac.uk. School of Biological Sciences. 5 February 2010. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Royal Society of London". cirs-tm.org. CIRS. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs FRS". Manchester: University og Manchester. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "2016 | Laureation address: Professor Jean Beggs | University of St Andrews". 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "Jean Beggs: 2018 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award | RNA Society". Retrieved 28 June 2019.