Interview with Malcolm J. Bennett.
Interview with Malcolm J. Bennett.
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马尔科姆·J·贝内特访谈。
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10.1016/j.tplants.2014.03.007
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发表时间：
2014
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20.5
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Bennett MJ
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作者：
Bennett MJ
Malcolm Bennett was born in north Wales into a nonscientific family. His early passion was history but, inspired by his biology teacher at high school, he went on to study biochemistry and molecular biology at Manchester University (then UMIST) from 1982 to 1985. After completing his PhD at the University of Warwick (1989), he won a NATO Fellowship to study at the University of Arizona in Tucson, before starting his own research group at Warwick in 1993. He was appointed Chair of Plant Sciences at the University of Nottingham in 1998. Understanding the ‘hidden half’of plant biology has been an enduring interest throughout his career. Over the past 10 years, he has used systems approaches to study hormone-regulated root development, helping to establish the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (CPIB), of which he is currently the Director. BBSRC Professorial Fellowship, ERC Advanced Investigator, and Wolfson-Royal Society awards have recently enabled him to build a multidisciplinary research team and state-of-theart computed tomography (CT) facility to image root architecture in soil noninvasively to finally uncover the ‘hidden half’of plant biology.What influenced your path into plant biology? I was brought up in the countryside where my father sparked an initial interest in plant biology through (often excessive!) gardening duties. I was fortunate to have two inspiring teachers who nurtured my nascent interest in biology: Bob Roberts, my biology teacher at high school and Mary Thomas, a lecturer at a local college (who also mentored Russell Jones, now at UC Berkeley). Paul Broda, my tutor at Manchester, kindly gave me the chance to experience research in his lab one summer (earning me the nickname ‘Boy Wonder’from other lab members, I later learned) and introduced me to Julie Cullimore, who subsequently became my PhD supervisor. Paul also encouraged me to pursue my interest in plant molecular biology, powerfully arguing that there was a much greater need to feed people than to cure them of cancer.
