Keith Chater Explained

Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, and John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow, at John Innes Centre.[1] He is a member of Faculty of 1000.[2] He is honorary professor at University of East Anglia.[3] [4]

Career

Chater studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham working on transduction in Salmonella.

Career and research

He joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with David Hopwood. His group developed the ΦC31 bacteriophage into a series of cloning vectors that are used to isolate genes in Streptomyces.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Keith Chater . John Innes Centre . 2012-01-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614185422/http://www.jic.ac.uk/staff/keith-chater/ . 2012-06-14 .
  2. Web site: Keith Chater: Faculty Member in Microbial Growth & Development . Faculty of 1000 . 2003-05-08 . 2012-01-17.
  3. Web site: Keith Chater - University of East Anglia . UEA . 2010-10-27 . 2012-01-17.
  4. Web site: Prof Keith Chater - John Innes Centre. Creative. Sponge. 9 March 2017.
  5. Book: D. A. Hopwood. Streptomyces in nature and medicine: the antibiotic makers. 17 January 2012. 3 February 2007. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-515066-7. 101.

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