Richard Bailey Flavell

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, FRS (born 11 October 1943) is a British molecular

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

, Chief Scientific Officer of Ceres, Inc., and was director of

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 ...

from 1987 to 1998.‘FLAVELL, Dr Richard Bailey’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

Life

He was educated at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

(BSc, 1964 in Microbiology) and 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 ...

(PhD, 1967 focused on the genetics of acetate utilization in Neurospora crassa). Following that he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1967-69 where he studied mitochondrial structure and function in Neurospora crassa. He then took up an appointment at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England in the Department of Cytogenetics under the leadership of Sir Ralph Riley. In the following years he built up a formidable team of plant molecular geneticists that emerged as one of the strongest in the world. The team was one of the first to clone plant DNA, to produce transgenic plants and to determine the structure of a plant mitochondrial genome.

Works

.Nicholas J. Brewin, Richard B. Flavell
"A cure for anemia in plants?"
''Nature Biotechnology'' 15, 222 - 223 (1997) .Richard B Flavell," A greener Revolution for All". Nature Biotechnology 34 1106-1110, 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flavell, Richard B. 1943 births Living people Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of East Anglia Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century British biologists 21st-century British biologists