Peter Michael Waterhouse is a

British-Australian Anglo-Celtic Australians is an ancestral grouping of Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British Isles - predominantly in English Australians, England, Irish Australians, Ireland, Scottish Australians, Scotland and ...

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their ...

and

geneticist A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processe ...

. He is a professor at the

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture.

Biography

Peter Waterhouse received his

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

degree (1977) from the

University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick univer ...

, UK, and his

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...

degree (1981) from the Scottish Crop Research Institute at the

University of Dundee The University of Dundee; . Abbreviated as ''Dund.'' for post-nominals. is a public university, public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a University college#United Kingdom, university college in 1881 with a donation ...

. He joined

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentar ...

Plant Industry as a Research Scientist in 1981 and was the leader of the virology program from 1989 to 1999 (excluding 1992). In 2008, he was awarded the

Federation Fellowship Federation Fellowships are Australian professorial research fellowships that were instigated by the Australian Government as part of its Backing Australia's Ability Backing Australia's Ability (BAA) was a five-year innovation plan launched by th ...

and took up a professorship in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

. Following the conclusion of this fellowship, Waterhouse left the University of Sydney and took up a professorial appointment at the

in 2014. In the late 1990s, Waterhouse led the CSIRO group which discovered that

gene silencing Gene silencing is the regulation of gene expression in a cell to prevent the expression of a certain gene. Gene silencing can occur during either transcription or translation and is often used in research. In particular, methods used to silence gen ...

and

transgene A transgene is a gene that has been transferred naturally, or by any of a number of genetic engineering techniques, from one organism to another. The introduction of a transgene, in a process known as transgenesis, has the potential to change the ...

-mediated virus resistance in plants were induced and targeted by

double-stranded RNA Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydr ...

Awards

* Victor Chang Medal (2002) * IMTC-ISI / Thomson Highly Cited in Field Award (2004) * CSIRO Chairman's Medal (2005) (with Ming-Bo Wang) * Winner of The Bulletin's Smartest Scientists in Australia (2007) (with Ming-Bo Wang) *

Prime Minister's Prize for Science The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science are annual Australian awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, innovation, and teaching. The prizes have been awarded since 2000, when they replaced the Australia Prize for science. Th ...

(2007) (with Ming-Bo Wang) * Australian Research Council

(2008) * Elected

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of about 500 Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the Academy. ...

(2009)Professor Peter Michael Waterhouse
Australian Academy of Science *

Australian Laureate Fellowship The Australian Laureate Fellowship is an Australian professorial research fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. Up to 17 fellows are chosen each year for five-year awards. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet fellowships In 201 ...

2016

Publications

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References

External links

Group Homepage at the University of Sydney

Peter Waterhouse
at Google Scholar Citations {{DEFAULTSORT:Waterhouse, Peter Living people British emigrants to Australia 21st-century Australian botanists Australian geneticists Australian virologists Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the University of Dundee Academic staff of the University of Sydney Year of birth missing (living people) Australian phytopathologists