Christopher John Lamb (19 March 1950 – 21 August 2009) was a Professor of

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at the University of East Anglia and director of the John Innes Centre. His field of study was plant–pathogen interactions, and he made many contributions to the understanding of plant pathology.

Education

Lamb graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1972 which was followed by a

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in Plant Biochemistry in 1976 also in Cambridge.

Career and research

From 1975 to 1982 he worked at the University of Oxford, first as an ICI Research Fellow in the School of Botany, then as a Browne Research Fellow at

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. In 1982 he moved to the

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in La Jolla, California where he was director of the plant biology laboratory until 1998. In 1999 he returned to the United Kingdom, first at the University of Edinburgh where he was Regius Professor of Plant Science then at the University of East Anglia where he was a Professor and director of the John Innes Centre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Chris Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of East Anglia English biologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1950 births 2009 deaths Place of birth missing 20th-century biologists