David Hopwood

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Sir David Alan Hopwood Kt FRS (19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist & geneticist.

He gained his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge and served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961.[1] He later became John Innes Professor of Genetics at the University of East Anglia. He is now an Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the John Innes Centre.[1] He was awarded the Gabor Medal in 1995 "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of polyketide synthesis".[2] In 2002, he co-authored the sequencing of the S. coelicolor A3(2) genome.[3] During more than forty years he has been studying the genetics and molecular biology of the model actinomycete S. coelicolor.[4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 [5] and delivered their Leeuwenhoek Lecture in 1987. He is also the author of Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sir David Hopwood". John Innes Center. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 
  2. ↑ "Gabor previous winners 2005 - 1989". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 
  3. ↑ Bentley, S. D.; Chater, K. F.; Cerdeño-Tárraga, A.-M.; Challis, G. L.; Thomson, N. R.; James, K. D.; Harris, D. E.; Quail, M. A. et al. (2002). "Complete genome sequence of the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)". Nature 417 (6885): 141–7. doi:10.1038/417141a. PMID 12000953. 
  4. ↑ Hopwood, David A. (1999). "Forty years of genetics with Streptomyces: from in vivo through in vitro to in silico". Microbiology 145 (9): 2183–202. PMID 10517572. 
  5. ↑ "Fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 January 2011. 
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