报告人：Don Grierson 教授， 英国皇家学院院士，诺丁汉大学前副校长

时间：2017.06.08 上午10:00

地点：食品楼224教室

联系人：傅达奇 （13693304594）

报告人简介：

Don Grierson graduated from the University of East Anglia in Biological Sciences in 1967 and after a period in an industrial research lab he obtained his PhD in Plant Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1972. He was appointed assistant lecturer at Nottingham in 1971, professor in 1986 and was a member of academic staff at Nottingham for over 40 years. He was awarded the degree of DSc in 1999 and held various positions, including founding head of the School of Biosciences at the Sutton Bonington Campus in 2000, Pro Vice Chancellor for research from 2003-2006. He officially retired from the University in 2010. He is now an emeritus professor at Nottingham University and a “Guang Biao” professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Don has given over 200 invited research talks to universities, institutes, or national and international conferences. His work on physiology of ripening, senescence, ethylene synthesis and action and gene discovery and gene silencing was supported by over 50 competitive research grants and he has published more than 250 scientific papers, chapters and books.

Awards: Ellis Prize in Physiology, Edinburgh University 1970; European Molecular Biology Organisation Long Term Research Fellow, in the Genetics Department, Tübingen University, Germany 1975-76; Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellow, Nottingham University 1981-82; Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology (now Fellow of the Royal Society for Biology) 1985; Research Medal by the Royal Agricultural Society of England for “Outstanding research in agriculture” 1990; Honorary Doctor of Science, National Polytechnic, Toulouse, France 2000;  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2000;  OBE for services to Plant Gene Regulation 2000;  Bertebos Prize, Royal Swedish Academy for Agriculture & Forestry for “Pioneering research in modern plant biotechnology” 2001;  Da Bei Nong International Biotechnology Prize, 2015.