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Nick Talbot
Birth Name:Nicholas José Talbot
Birth Date:1965 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Haslemere, Surrey, England
Nationality:British
Thesis Title:Genetic and genomic analysis of Cladosporuim fulvum (syn. Fulvia fulva)
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253614
Thesis Year:1990
Known For:Research on Magnaporthe grisea
Spouse:Catherine Ann Walsh

Nicholas José Talbot FRS FRSB (born 5 September 1965) is Group Leader and Executive Director at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.[1]

Education

Talbot was educated at Midhurst Grammar School. He went on to study at the University of Wales, Swansea for a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology graduating in 1986. Following his undergraduate degree, he trained at the University of East Anglia (UEA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1990 for genetic and genomic analysis of the leaf mould Cladosporuim fulvum.[1] [2] [3]

Career

After postdoctoral research at Purdue University from 1990 to 1993,[4] Talbot was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Exeter in 1993, and has been Professor of Molecular Genetics since 1999. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. In 2018 Talbot joined The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich as Group Leader and Executive Director.

Research

Talbot's research investigates plant pathology and developmental biology, especially the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea,[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] one of the world's most devastating diseases. Talbot is the editor of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi[10] and Plant-Pathogen Interactions.[11]

Talbot's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[12] Talbot has twice been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants in 2013[13] and 2022.[14] His current ERC grant supports the SEPBLAST project which will build on his research group's recent discoveries on fungal morphogenetic proteins, called septins, being essential for the rice blast pathogen to cause disease.[15]

Awards and honours

Talbot was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2010, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

Personal life

Talbot is married to Catherine Ann Walsh, with two sons and one daughter.

Notes and References

  1. Nick Talbot
  2. PhD . Nicholas José. Talbot . Genetic and genomic analysis of Cladosporuim fulvum (syn. Fulvia fulva) . University of East Anglia . 1990 . Nick Talbot.
  3. Web site: Professor Nick Talbot FRS FSB. University of Exeter. 2014-09-23.
  4. 16348876. 202148. 1993. Talbot. N. J.. Karyotypic Variation within Clonal Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 59. 2. 585–93. Salch. Y. P.. Ma. M. Hamer. J. E.. 10.1128/AEM.59.2.585-593.1993. 1993ApEnM..59..585T.
  5. 15846337. 2005. Dean. R. A.. The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Nature. 434. 7036. 980–6. Talbot. N. J.. Nick Talbot. Ebbole. D. J.. Farman. M. L.. Mitchell. T. K.. Orbach. M. J.. Thon. M. Kulkarni. R. Xu. J. R.. Pan. H. Read. N. D.. Lee. Y. H.. Carbone. I. Brown. D. Oh. Y. Y.. Donofrio. N. Jeong. J. S.. Soanes. D. M.. Djonovic. S. Kolomiets. E. Rehmeyer. C. Li. W. Harding. M. Kim. S. Lebrun. M. H.. Bohnert. H. Coughlan. S. Butler. J. Calvo. S. Ma. L. J.. 29. 10.1038/nature03449. 2005Natur.434..980D. free.
  6. 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090957. 14527276. On the trail of a cereal killer: Exploring the Biology of Magnaporthe grisea. Annual Review of Microbiology. 57. 177–202. 2003. Talbot . N. J. . Nick Talbot.
  7. 10.1126/science.1124550. 16645096. Autophagic Fungal Cell Death is Necessary for Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus. Science. 312. 5773. 580–3. 2006. Veneault-Fourrey . C.. Barooah. M. Egan. M. Wakley. G. Talbot. N. J.. 2006Sci...312..580V. 11323211.
  8. 10.1105/tpc.5.11.1575. Identification and Characterization of MPG1, a Gene Involved in Pathogenicity from the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea. The Plant Cell. 5. 11. 1575–90. 1993. Talbot . N. J. . 8312740. 160387.
  9. 11006342. 149080. 2000. Thines. E. MAP kinase and protein kinase A-dependent mobilization of triacylglycerol and glycogen during appressorium turgor generation by Magnaporthe grisea. The Plant Cell. 12. 9. 1703–18. Weber. R. W.. Talbot. N. J. . 10.2307/3871184. 3871184.
  10. Book: Talbot, Nick . Molecular and cellular biology of filamentous fungi: a practical approach . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2001 . 0199638373 .
  11. Book: Talbot, Nick . Plant-pathogen interactions . Blackwell Pub . Oxford . 2004 . 9781405147934 .
  12. Web site: UK Government research grants awarded to Nicholas Talbot]. rcuk.ac.uk. Research Councils UK. 24 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110032/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/97B74465-8297-440F-9143-FAB7567CACFF. 4 March 2016. dead.
  13. Web site: Datahub of ERC funded projects . 2022-12-05 . erc.easme-web.eu.
  14. Web site: 2022-04-29 . Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro grant . 2022-12-05 . Norwich Research Park . en-GB.
  15. Web site: Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro… . 2022-12-05 . The Sainsbury Laboratory . 27 April 2022 . en.

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