Stephen George Oliver (born 3 November 1949) is an

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Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Education

Oliver was educated at the University of Bristol gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in

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in 1971 followed by a

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from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in 1974.

Research

Oliver's areas of research include functional genomics,

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and

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using the

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'' Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' which he has worked on since the 1970s. In 1992, whilst working at UMIST, Oliver led the team which provided first complete sequence analysis of an entire chromosome from any organism. More recently he has also been involved in the creation of a

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and has been awarded research funding as principal investigator or co-investigator with a total value of over £26 million by the

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((BBSRC).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, Stephen Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Alumni of the University of Manchester Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge 1949 births