Keith Chater

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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]

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Career

Chater studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham working on transduction in Salmonella .[ citation needed ][ when? ]

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]

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References

  1. "Keith Chater". John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
  2. "Keith Chater: Faculty Member in Microbial Growth & Development". Faculty of 1000. 2003-05-08. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
  3. "Keith Chater - University of East Anglia". UEA. 2010-10-27. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
  4. Sponge, Creative. "Prof Keith Chater - John Innes Centre" . Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. D. A. Hopwood (3 February 2007). Streptomyces in nature and medicine: the antibiotic makers. Oxford University Press. p. 101. ISBN   978-0-19-515066-7 . Retrieved 17 January 2012.