Sir David Alan Hopwood (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist.
Education
Educated at
Purbrook Park County High School and
Lymm Grammar School
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, Hopwood gained his
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...
degree from
St John's College, Cambridge and his
PhD from the
University of Glasgow
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in 1973.
Career
Hopwood served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the
University of Glasgow
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in 1961.
He later became John Innes Professor of Genetics at the
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...
. He is now an Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the
John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and ...
.
Awards and honours
Hopwood was awarded the
Gabor Medal
The Gabor Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines".
The medal was created in 1989 to honor the memory of physicist Denni ...
in 1995 "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of ''
Streptomyces coelicolor
''Streptomyces albidoflavus'' is a bacterium species from the genus of ''Streptomyces'' which has been isolated from soil from Poland. ''Streptomyces albidoflavus'' produces dibutyl phthalate and streptothricins.
Small noncoding RNA
Bacter ...
'' A3(2), and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of polyketide synthesis". In 2002, he co-authored the sequencing of the ''S. coelicolor'' A3(2) genome.
During more than forty years he has been studying the genetics and molecular biology of the model actinomycete ''S. coelicolor''.
Hopwood was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...
in 1979
and delivered their
Leeuwenhoek Lecture
The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society to recognize achievement in microbiology. The prize was originally given in 1950 and awarded annually, but from 2006 to 2018 was given triennially. From 2018 it will be awarded bienni ...
in 1987. He is also the author of ''Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers''.
His nomination for the
Royal Society
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References
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1933 births
Living people
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of East Anglia
Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Knights Bachelor
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology