Jean Beggs
Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS (born 16 April 1950) is a British geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
She gained a BSc and PhD at Glasgow University, and from 1974-77 did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh University. After two years' research at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, she moved to[clarification needed] Imperial College, University of London, until 1985 and then back to the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh, being appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1999.[2] Her research interests are in RNA splicing.[3]
Awards and honours
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998[4] and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]
In 2003 she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".[6]
She received a CBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to science.[7]
She was the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vice President for Life Sciences 2009 til 2012
In 2016 she was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of St Andrews. [8]
Personal life
She was born Jean Duthie Lancaster to William and Jean (née Duthie) Lancaster and married Ian Beggs in 1972. They have two sons.
References
- ^ "Jean Beggs profile". eurasnet.info. EURASNET. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (30 November 2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Jean Beggs". wcb.ed.ac.uk. Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Biology.ed.ac.uk. School of Biological Sciences. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Royal Society of London". cirs-tm.org. CIRS. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs FRS". Manchester: University og Manchester. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2016/title,562751,en.php
External links
- Jean Beggs profile, scholar.google.com; accessed 16 March 2016.
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