Malcolm Bennett.
Malcolm Bennett.
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马尔科姆·贝内特。
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马尔科姆·贝内特是诺丁汉大学植物科学教授和植物综合生物学中心（CPIB）主任。少年时代迷上DNA后，他在麻省理工学院（现为曼彻斯特大学的一部分）学习分子生物学和生物化学。在他的研究生学习期间，他对植物生物学的“隐藏的一半”——根系发育产生了浓厚的兴趣。后来，他在亚利桑那大学费尔德曼实验室担任北约研究员，该实验室开创了模式植物拟南芥的基因标记。他对激素控制根生长发育的研究导致了植物中第一个生长素运输蛋白的鉴定。自2005年以来，他一直采用基于系统的方法，成功地解决了植物生物学中几个最古老、最棘手的问题。这种多学科方法最近帮助克服了根生物学中最大的单一障碍，即能够无创地成像根在土壤中的生长和发育。
Malcolm Bennett is Professor of Plant Science and Director of the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB) at the University of Nottingham. After becoming enamored with DNA as a teenager, he studied molecular biology and biochemistry at UMIST (now part of the University of Manchester). During his postgraduate studies he developed a passion for the ‘hidden half’of plant biology, root development. He later spent time as a NATO Fellow at the University of Arizona in the Feldmann lab, which pioneered gene tagging in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. His studies on the hormonal control of root growth and development led to the identification of the first auxin transport protein described in plants. Since 2005, he has embraced systemsbased approaches to successfully address several of the oldest and most recalcitrant questions in plant biology. This multidisciplinary approach has recently helped overcome the single biggest impediment in root biology, the ability to non-invasively image roots growing and developing in soil.