Mervyn Bibb Explained

Mervyn Bibb
Alma Mater:	University of East Anglia
Thesis Title:	Genetic and physical studies of a Streptomyces coelicolor plasmid
Thesis Url:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.350968
Thesis Year:	1978
Doctoral Advisor:	David Hopwood^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Awards:	FRS (2013)

Mervyn James Bibb is an Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

Education

Bibb was educated at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences and was awarded a PhD in 1978 for studies of plasmids in Streptomyces coelicolor.^[4]

Research

Bibb's research^{[5] [6]} focused on

• The regulation of secondary metabolism (antibiotic production) in streptomycetes^[7]
• Functional genomics in Streptomyces, particularly transcriptome and proteome analysis
• Lantibiotics from actinomycetes

Awards and honours

Bibb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:

Notes and References

1. 672966. 1978. Bibb. M. J.. Mervyn Bibb. Transformation of plasmid DNA into Streptomyces at high frequency. Nature. 274. 5669. 398–400. Ward. J. M.. Hopwood. D. A.. 10.1038/274398a0. 1978Natur.274..398B. 4221380. David Hopwood.
2. 856941. 1977. Freeman. R. F.. Chloramphenicol acetylransferase-independent chloramphenicol resistance in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Journal of General Microbiology. 98. 2. 453–65. Bibb. M. J.. Mervyn Bibb. Hopwood. D. A.. David Hopwood . 10.1099/00221287-98-2-453. free.
3. http://news.jic.ac.uk/2013/05/qa-with-professor-mervyn-bibb/ Q&A with Professor Mervyn Bibb
4. PhD . Mervyn. Bibb . Genetic and physical studies of a Streptomyces coelicolor plasmid . University of East Anglia . 1978 . Mervyn Bibb.
5. 10.1016/0378-1119(84)90116-1. 6096212. The relationship between base composition and codon usage in bacterial genes and its use for the simple and reliable identification of protein-coding sequences. Gene. 30. 1–3. 157–66. 1984. Bibb . M. J. . Findlay . P. R. . Johnson . M. W. .
6. 10.1007/BF00422072. Construction and characterisation of a series of multi-copy promoter-probe plasmid vectors for Streptomyces using the aminoglycoside phosphotransferase gene from Tn5 as indicator. MGG Molecular & General Genetics. 203. 3. 468–478. 1986. Ward . J. M. . Janssen . G. R. . Kieser . T. . Bibb . M. J. . Buttner . M. J. . Bibb . M. J. . 3018431. 25943568.
7. 10.1016/j.mib.2005.02.016. 15802254. Regulation of secondary metabolism in streptomycetes. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 8. 2. 208–15. 2005. Bibb . M. J. .