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Michael W. Bevan

For the Australian cricketer, seeMichael Bevan.

Michael Webster BevanOBEFRS(born 5 June 1952)[2]is a professor at theJohn Innes Centre,Norwich,UK.[5][6][7][8]

Mike Bevan
Born
Michael Webster Bevan

(1952-06-05)5 June 1952(age 72)[2]
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
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ThesisDifferentiation in plant tissue cultures(1979)
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Education

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Bevan was educated at theUniversity of Aucklandwhere he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1973 and a Master of Science in 1974. He went on to study atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge,where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for work ondifferentiationinplant tissue cultures.[9]

Research and career

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Following his PhD, Bevan didpostdoctoral researchwithMary-Dell ChiltonatWashington University in St. Louis[10][11][12][13]where he identified ways to makefunctional chimaeric genesbased on knowledge ofgene function.[5]

Bevan returned to the UK at thePlant Breeding Institute, Cambridge[14][15]in 1980, part of theAgricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC).This became theJohn Innes Centreof theBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)where he has worked since 1988.[2]

As of 2014, Bevan's laboratory focus on the molecular control ofplant growth.[16][17][18][19][20]

Awards and honours

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Bevan was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.His nomination reads:

Michael Bevan's work laid the foundations of modern day plantmolecular biologyandgenetics.He pioneered plant transformation and expression technologies, developing the most widely used vector and gene expression systems. He played a major role in the multi-national efforts to sequence theArabidopsisandBrachypodiumgenomes,which provide key foundations forplant biology.He has capitalised on this by his analyses of gene function and growth control in plants. He has recently completed the first analysis of the large, complex and important genome ofbread wheat,aiming to develop resources for molecularbreedingand improvement of this globally important crop.[1]

He was appointedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) in the2019 Birthday Honoursfor services to plant genomics.[21]

References

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  1. ^ab"Professor Michael Bevan FRS".Royal Society.
  2. ^abcd"BEVAN, Prof. Michael Webster".Who's Who 2014(online ed.).A & C Black.2014.
  3. ^"Prizes awarded by the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund".The Rank Prize Funds.Retrieved5 December2018.
  4. ^"Genetics Society Medal 2018 – Mike Bevan".The Genetics Society.
  5. ^ab"Q&A with Professor Mike Bevan".John Innes Centre.24 August 2023.
  6. ^Michael W. Bevan's publicationsindexed by theScopusbibliographic database.(subscription required)
  7. ^Michael W. Bevanpublications indexed byMicrosoft Academic
  8. ^Brenchley, R; Spannagl, M; et al. (2012)."Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing".Nature.491(7426): 705–10.Bibcode:2012Natur.491..705B.doi:10.1038/nature11650.PMC3510651.PMID23192148.
  9. ^Bevan, Michael W (1979).Differentiation in plant tissue cultures(PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  10. ^Bevan, MW; Flavell, RB;Chilton, MD(1983). "A chimaeric antibiotic resistance gene as a selectable marker for plant cell transformation".Nature.304(5922): 184–7.Bibcode:1983Natur.304..184B.doi:10.1038/304184a0.S2CID28713537.
  11. ^Bevan, M; Barnes, WM; Chilton, MD (1983)."Structure and transcription of the nopaline synthase gene region of T-DNA".Nucleic Acids Research.11(2): 369–85.doi:10.1093/nar/11.2.369.PMC325720.PMID6298724.
  12. ^Bevan, MW; Chilton, MD (1982). "Multiple transcripts of T-DNA detected in nopaline crown gall tumors".Journal of Molecular and Applied Genetics.1(6): 539–46.PMID7153688.
  13. ^Bevan, MW; Chilton, MD (1982). "T-DNA of the Agrobacterium Ti and Ri plasmids".Annual Review of Genetics.16:357–84.doi:10.1146/annurev.ge.16.120182.002041.PMID6297376.
  14. ^Jefferson, RA;Kavanagh, TA; Bevan, MW (1987)."GUS fusions: Beta-glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants".The EMBO Journal.6(13): 3901–7.doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1987.tb02730.x.PMC553867.PMID3327686.
  15. ^Bevan, M (1984)."BinaryAgrobacteriumvectorsfor plant transformation ".Nucleic Acids Research.12(22): 8711–21.doi:10.1093/nar/12.22.8711.PMC320409.PMID6095209.
  16. ^Rook, F; Corke, F; et al. (2002)."Impaired sucrose-induction mutants reveal the modulation of sugar-induced starch biosynthetic gene expression by abscisic acid signalling".The Plant Journal.26(4): 421–33.doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.2001.2641043.x.PMID11439129.
  17. ^Vogel, JP; Garvin, DF; et al. (2010)."Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon".Nature.463(7282): 763–8.Bibcode:2010Natur.463..763T.doi:10.1038/nature08747.PMID20148030.
  18. ^Baulcombe, DC;Saunders, GR; et al. (1986). "Expression of biologically active viral satellite RNA from the nuclear genome of transformed plants".Nature.321(6068): 446–9.Bibcode:1986Natur.321..446B.doi:10.1038/321446a0.S2CID4309327.
  19. ^Sablowski, RW; Baulcombe, DC; Bevan, M (1995)."Expression of a flower-specific Myb protein in leaf cells using a viral vector causes ectopic activation of a target promoter".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.92(15): 6901–5.Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.6901S.doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.6901.PMC41438.PMID7624340.
  20. ^"Major breakthrough in deciphering bread wheat's genetic code".John Innes Centre.22 November 2012.
  21. ^"No. 62666".The London Gazette(Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B10.
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