Nick Talbot
Nick Talbot at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Born
Nicholas José Talbot

(1965-09-05) 5 September 1965 (age 58)[2]
Haslemere, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forResearch on Magnaporthe grisea
SpouseCatherine Ann Walsh[2]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisGenetic and genomic analysis of Cladosporuim fulvum (syn. Fulvia fulva) (1990)
Websitetsl.ac.uk/staff/professor-nick-talbot/

Nicholas José Talbot FRS FRSB (born 5 September 1965) is Group Leader and Executive Director at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.[2][1][3][4]

Education

Talbot was educated at Midhurst Grammar School.[2] He went on to study at the University of Wales, Swansea for a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology graduating in 1986. Following his undergraduate degree, he trained at the University of East Anglia (UEA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1990 for genetic and genomic analysis of the leaf mould Cladosporuim fulvum.[3][5][6]

Career

After postdoctoral research at Purdue University from 1990 to 1993,[2][7] Talbot was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Exeter in 1993, and has been Professor of Molecular Genetics since 1999. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. In 2018 Talbot joined The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich as Group Leader and Executive Director.

Research

Talbot's research investigates plant pathology and developmental biology,[1] especially the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea,[8][9][10][11][12] one of the world's most devastating diseases. Talbot is the editor of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi[13] and Plant-Pathogen Interactions.[14]

Talbot's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[15] Talbot has twice been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants in 2013[16] and 2022.[17] His current ERC grant supports the SEPBLAST project which will build on his research group's recent discoveries on fungal morphogenetic proteins, called septins, being essential for the rice blast pathogen to cause disease.[18]

Awards and honours

Talbot was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2010, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

Nicholas Talbot is distinguished for his discoveries contributing to our knowledge of how fungi cause disease in plants. He has elucidated the molecular processes of cell differentiation and autophagic cell death in fungi causing diseases such as rice blast. He has shown how these processes are intimately involved in virulence and pathogenicity and are orchestrated to enable the complex cellular processes that enable a filamentous fungus to invade healthy plants. His work is characterised by a combination of molecular, genetic, genomic and cell biological approaches.[19]

Personal life

Talbot is married to Catherine Ann Walsh, with two sons and one daughter.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Nick Talbot publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d e f "TALBOT, Prof. Nicholas José". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c Nick Talbot ORCID 0000-0001-6434-7757
  4. ^ Nick Talbot's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Talbot, Nicholas José (1990). Genetic and genomic analysis of Cladosporuim fulvum (syn. Fulvia fulva) (PhD thesis). University of East Anglia.
  6. ^ "Professor Nick Talbot FRS FSB". University of Exeter. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  7. ^ Talbot, N. J.; Salch, Y. P.; Ma, M; Hamer, J. E. (1993). "Karyotypic Variation within Clonal Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 59 (2): 585–93. Bibcode:1993ApEnM..59..585T. doi:10.1128/AEM.59.2.585-593.1993. PMC 202148. PMID 16348876.
  8. ^ Dean, R. A.; Talbot, N. J.; Ebbole, D. J.; Farman, M. L.; Mitchell, T. K.; Orbach, M. J.; Thon, M; Kulkarni, R; Xu, J. R.; Pan, H; Read, N. D.; Lee, Y. H.; Carbone, I; Brown, D; Oh, Y. Y.; Donofrio, N; Jeong, J. S.; Soanes, D. M.; Djonovic, S; Kolomiets, E; Rehmeyer, C; Li, W; Harding, M; Kim, S; Lebrun, M. H.; Bohnert, H; Coughlan, S; Butler, J; Calvo, S; et al. (2005). "The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea". Nature. 434 (7036): 980–6. Bibcode:2005Natur.434..980D. doi:10.1038/nature03449. PMID 15846337.
  9. ^ Talbot, N. J. (2003). "On the trail of a cereal killer: Exploring the Biology of Magnaporthe grisea". Annual Review of Microbiology. 57: 177–202. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090957. PMID 14527276.
  10. ^ Veneault-Fourrey, C.; Barooah, M; Egan, M; Wakley, G; Talbot, N. J. (2006). "Autophagic Fungal Cell Death is Necessary for Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus". Science. 312 (5773): 580–3. Bibcode:2006Sci...312..580V. doi:10.1126/science.1124550. PMID 16645096. S2CID 11323211.
  11. ^ Talbot, N. J. (1993). "Identification and Characterization of MPG1, a Gene Involved in Pathogenicity from the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea". The Plant Cell. 5 (11): 1575–90. doi:10.1105/tpc.5.11.1575. PMC 160387. PMID 8312740.
  12. ^ Thines, E; Weber, R. W.; Talbot, N. J. (2000). "MAP kinase and protein kinase A-dependent mobilization of triacylglycerol and glycogen during appressorium turgor generation by Magnaporthe grisea". The Plant Cell. 12 (9): 1703–18. doi:10.2307/3871184. JSTOR 3871184. PMC 149080. PMID 11006342.
  13. ^ Talbot, Nick (2001). Molecular and cellular biology of filamentous fungi: a practical approach. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199638373.
  14. ^ Talbot, Nick (2004). Plant-pathogen interactions. Oxford: Blackwell Pub. ISBN 9781405147934.
  15. ^ "UK Government research grants awarded to Nicholas Talbot]". rcuk.ac.uk. Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  16. ^ "Datahub of ERC funded projects". erc.easme-web.eu. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  17. ^ "Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro grant". Norwich Research Park. 29 April 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  18. ^ "Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro…". The Sainsbury Laboratory. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  19. ^ Anon (2014). "Professor Nicholas Talbot FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014.
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