Anne Osbourn

BIOGRAPHY

CURRENT POSITION:
• Programme Leader and Associate Research Director, John Innes Centre, Norwich
• Honorary Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich

EDUCATION:
• BSc in botany from the University of Durham
• PhD in genetics from the University of Birmingham

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• Medal of the University of Helsinki (2003)
• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Dream Time Fellowship (2004)
• Branco Weiss Society in Science Fellow (2005)
• Founder of Science, Art and Writing (SAW), a science education initiative that encourages schoolchildren and people of all ages to discover and explore science (see http://www.sawtrust.org)
• Editorial boards – New Phytologist (March 2009 onwards); Plant and Cell Physiology (2010 onwards)
• Royal Society of Chemistry Bioorganic Group Committee member (2010 onwards)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our primary interests are in understanding the function and synthesis of plant-derived natural products and the origins of metabolic diversity. This research impacts on other fundamental aspects of biology such as chromosome structure and gene regulation, genome plasticity, diversification of function of enzymes and multi-component pathways and adaptive evolution.

The Osbourn group works with crop and model plants, using a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches that include genetics, genomics, computational biology, cell biology, protein and small molecule biochemistry.

HOME PAGE
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