Martin Embley

Martin Embley
FRS FMedSci
Born
Thomas Martin Embley
Alma materNewcastle University (PhD)
AwardsEMBO Membership (2009)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsEukaryotes
Evolution[2]
InstitutionsNewcastle University
North East London Polytechnic
Natural History Museum, London[3]
ThesisAspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum (1983)
Websiteresearch.ncl.ac.uk/microbial_eukaryotes/martinembley.html

Thomas Martin Embley is a British scientist who is a professor at Newcastle University who has made contributions to the 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]

References

  1. ^ a b Anon (2009). "Martin Embley EMBO biography". people.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. ^ Martin Embley publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b 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.