Julian Edmund Davies FRS (born January 1932) is a British microbiologist, professor emeritus, and Principal Investigator of the Davies Lab, at

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Education and personal life

Born in January 1932, Davies earned a B.Sc. in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956 from the

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Career

His research focuses on the interaction of small molecules, and especially

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, with bacteria. He made important advances in understanding how antibiotics worked and how bacteria become resistant to them, especially the origin of genes for resistance.

Publications

He is the author or co-author of several hundred scientific papers and at least 6 books.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is a former president of the American Society for Microbiology. He is a member of the

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. He has received the

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Gold Medal,

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Prize, and was the recipient of the Bristol–Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases Research in 1999.

References

External links

''Small Talk: Signalling in the Microbial World''
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