Martin C. J. Maiden

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Martin C. J. Maiden
Born
Martin Christopher James Maiden
NationalityEnglish
Education University of Reading
Known for Multilocus sequence typing
Awards Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2016)
Scientific career
Fields Microbiology
Thesis Arabinose-proton symport in escherichia coli  (1986)
Academic advisors Peter Henderson [1]

Martin Christopher James Maiden [2] is an English microbiologist. He is Head of Department and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, where he is also a fellow of Hertford College. [3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2010, a Fellow of the Society of Biology in 2012, [1] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology, both in 2016. [3] [4]

He is widely known as a developer of method of molecular typing of bacteria MLST.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Martin C.J. Maiden". The Maiden Lab. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford . Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. Clemence, Marianne Elizabeth Alexandra; Maiden, Martin Christopher James; Harrison, Odile Barbara (1 September 2018). "Characterization of capsule genes in non-pathogenic Neisseria species". Microbial Genomics . 4 (9). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000208 . ISSN   2057-5858. PMC   6202450 . PMID   30074474.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Martin Maiden". Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom . Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. "Fellows Elected in 2016". American Academy of Microbiology . Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2019.