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Sulston was educated at [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]]<ref name="whoswho"/> and [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] graduating in 1963 with an undergraduate degree in [[Organic Chemistry]]. He joined the |
Sulston was educated at [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]]<ref name="whoswho"/> and [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] graduating in 1963 with an undergraduate degree in [[Organic Chemistry]]. He joined the department of chemistry in Cambridge, gained his [[Doctor of Philosophy]]<ref name="bloggsphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=John|last=Sulston |title=Aspects of oligoribonucleotide synthesis|publisher=University of Cambrige |date=1967 |url=http://www.theses.com|authorlink=John Sulston}}{{subscription required}}</ref> for research in [[nucleotide]] chemistry, and devoted his scientific life to biological research, especially in the field of [[molecular biology]]. |
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Sir John Sulston | |
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Born | [1] | 27 March 1942
Nationality | Britain |
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Known for | Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 Work on Caenorhabditis elegans[2][3][4][5] Sulston score[6] Director of Sanger Centre |
Spouse | Daphne Edith Bate[1] |
Awards | Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002) Knight Bachelor (2001) Fellow of the Royal Society (1986) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology Apoptosis Genetics |
Institutions | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute University of Cambridge Salk Institute Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Manchester |
Thesis | Aspects of oligoribonucleotide synthesis (1967) |
Website | www www |
Sir John Edward Sulston FRS (born 27 March 1942) is a British biologist. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. As of 2012[update] he is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation[7] at the University of Manchester.[8][9][10][11][12]
Education
Sulston was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood[1] and Pembroke College, Cambridge graduating in 1963 with an undergraduate degree in Organic Chemistry. He joined the department of chemistry in Cambridge, gained his Doctor of Philosophy[13] for research in nucleotide chemistry, and devoted his scientific life to biological research, especially in the field of molecular biology.
Career
After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies for a while, he returned to Cambridge to work with Sydney Brenner at the Medical Research Council| Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Sulston played a central role in both the Caenorhabditis elegans worm [3] and human genome[14] sequencing projects. He had argued successfully for the sequencing of C. elegans to show that large-scale genome sequencing projects were feasible. As sequencing of the worm genome proceeded, the project to sequence the human genome began. At this point he was made director of the newly established Sanger Centre (named after Fred Sanger and now the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), located in Cambridgeshire, England.
Following completion of the 'working draft' of the human genome sequence in 2000, Sulston retired from his role as director at the Sanger Centre. In 2002 he won the Dan David Prize and the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award. Later, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz, both of whom he had collaborated with at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'. One of Sulston's most important contributions during his research years at the LMB was to elucidate the precise order in which cells in C. elegans divide. In fact, he and his team succeeded in tracing the nematode's entire embryonic cell lineage. Sulston is now a leading campaigner against the patenting of human genetic information.
Sulston is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.[15] In 2003 he was one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.[16]
In 2001 Sulston was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on The Secrets of Life.
He also provided bail sureties for Julian Assange, according to Mark Stephens, Julian's solicitor. [17]. Having backed Julian Assange by pledging bail in December 2010, he lost the money in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the embassy of Ecuador.[18]
Sulston was one of 20 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Stockholm Memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.[19]
References
- ^ a b c "SULSTON, Sir John (Edward)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012.(subscription required)
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instead. - ^ John Sulston publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
- ^ Sulston, John (1967). Aspects of oligoribonucleotide synthesis (PhD thesis). University of Cambrige.(subscription required)
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instead. - ^ "Distinguished Supporters". British Humanist Association. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ^ "Notable Signers". Humanism and Its Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12015140
- ^ Daily Mail 4 September 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198072/Julian-Assanges-high-profile-backers-set-lose-340-000-bail-money-remains-holed-Ecuador-Embassy.html
- ^ "Stockholm Memorandum," Nobel-cause.de, 2011
External links
Biographies and profiles
- John Sulston biography from the Wellcome Trust
- John Sulston: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
- Portraits of John Sulston from the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)
- John Sulston profile from Channel4
- John Sulston profile from BBC4
- Freeview Video of Fredrick Sanger in conversation with John Sulston by the Vega Science Trust
- John Sulston profile from the Medical Research Council lab for Molecular Biology
- Sir John Sulston FRS - Worm genomics
- John Sulston interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 16th September 2008 (film)
- Dan David Prize laureate 2002
Publications
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- British Nobel laureates
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- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Knights Bachelor
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- Living people
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