Sophien Kamoun#
| Membership Number: | 3026 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kamounlab.net |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009-present- Head, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
- 2009-present- Honorary Professor, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- 2007-present- Senior Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
- 1998-2007- Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Dept. Plant Pathology, Ohio State Univ, Ohio Ag Res Dev Center (OARDC), Wooster, USA
- 1994-1997- Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Phytopathology, Wageningen Univ, The Netherlands
- 1991-1994- Postdoc, NSF Ctr for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens (CEPRAP), UC Davis
- 1987-1991- Research Assistant, Dept. Plant Pathology and Genetics Graduate Group, UC Davis
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Plant pathology
- Plant immunity
- Eukaryotic microbiology
- Genomics
- Genome evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Academia Europaea (Elected Member)
- 2011 President, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI).
- 2010 Daiwa Adrian Prize (scientific collaboration between Japanese and British research teams).
- 2010 Science Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology.
- 2010 Thomson Reuters Fast Breaking Paper: Hogenhout et al. Mol Plant-Microbe Interact 22:115.
- 2009 Science Advisory Board, Two Blades Foundation.
- 2009 President-elect, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI).
- 2008 BASF Science Panel.
- 2007 Board of Directors, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI).
- 2006 WE. Krauss Director’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Mentorship, OARDC
- 2004 Pomerene Teaching Award, CFAES, Ohio State University
- 2004 OARDC Junior Faculty Research Award
- 2003 American Phytopathological Society Syngenta Award
