Martin Embley

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Martin Embley

Born
Thomas Martin Embley
Alma mater Newcastle University (PhD)
Awards EMBO Membership (2009) [1]
Scientific career
Fields Eukaryotes
Evolution [2]
Institutions Newcastle University
North East London Polytechnic
Natural History Museum, London [3]
Thesis Aspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum  (1983)
Website research.ncl.ac.uk/microbial_eukaryotes/martinembley.html

(Thomas) Martin Embley FRS FMedSci is a professor at Newcastle University who has made contributions to our understanding of the origin of eukaryotes and the evolution of organelles such as mitochondria, [3] [4] [5] [6] mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, that are found in parasitic protists. [1]

In May 2021, Embley was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society. [7]

Education

Embley was educated at Newcastle University, where he was awarded a PhD on the biology of the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum in 1983. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2009). "Martin Embley EMBO biography". people.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. Martin Embley publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 Anon (2019). "Professor Martin Embley FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  4. Martin Embley publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. Berriman, M. (2005). "The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei". Science. 309 (5733): 416–422. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..416B. doi:10.1126/science.1112642. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   16020726. S2CID   18649858.
  6. Embley, T. Martin; Martin, William (2006). "Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges". Nature. 440 (7084): 623–630. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..623E. doi:10.1038/nature04546. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   16572163. S2CID   4396543.
  7. "Two leading scientists recognised with 'science Oscars'".
  8. Embley, Thomas Martin (1983). Aspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Newcastle upon Tyne. OCLC   10497082. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.372322.