George Salmond

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

 

George Salmond took his PhD at Warwick University, UK on bacterium-phage interactions. After postdoctoral work on the genetics of bacterial cell division (Edinburgh University) he took a lectureship at the University of Kent (1980). He moved to Warwick University, where he became Professor of Microbiology (1993) before joining the Department of Biochemistry in Cambridge University in 1996. He also did research work at the CNRS, Marseille, France (Senior Ciba-Geigy Fellow) and Celgene Corporation, New Jersey, USA (Celgene Sabbatical Fellow).

 

Some of his recent professional activities include: Scottish Science Advisory Council; Board of Directors, James Hutton Institute; President, British Society for Plant Pathology; Governor, John Innes Centre; Council of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies; International Secretary and Council of the Society for General Microbiology; Science Unions Committee, The Royal Society, and Pathogen Sequencing Advisory Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

 

His broad research interests include: virulence regulation in bacterial pathogens of plants and animals; bacterial intercellular signaling and quorum sensing; protein secretion systems; antibiotics and other bioactive molecules; bacterial gas vesicles; evolution and exploitation of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages); Toxin-Antitoxin systems and anti-viral abortive infection.

 

He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the American Academy of Microbiology.

 

Further information can be found on his website:

www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/salmond.html