Nicholas Talbot#
| Membership Number: | 3832 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.tsl.ac.uk/staff/professor-nick-talbot |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Executive Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory
- 2010 - 2018 Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Exeter
- 2005 - 2010 Head of School, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter
- 1999 - Professor of Molecular Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
- 1998 - 1999 Reader in Molecular Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
- 1993 - 1998 Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University, USAFungal biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant microbe interactions
- Fungal biology
- Plant biology
- Genetics
- Mycology
- Microbiology
- Plant disease
Honours and Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014 for his discoveries contributing to our knowledge of how fungi causes disease in plants
- Elected Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB), 2010
- European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, 2012-2017
- Elected as Member of EMBO 2013
- Whetzel-Wescott-Dimock Distinguished Lecturer, Cornell University, 2011
- Pirie Award Lecture, Rothamsted Research, 2010
- University of Aberdeen Annual Microbiology Prize Lecture, 2010
- John S. Karling Award Lecture, Mycological Society of America, 2008
- Plenary Prize Lecture, 9th International Mycological Congress, Edinburgh, 2010
- Distinguished Speaker Series, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China, 2008
- The President’s Medal, Society for Experimental Biology, 2000
- The Berkeley Award, The British Mycological Society, 1999
