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ICE 2016 Plenary Presentation Featuring Dr. John A. Pickett
John Anthony Pickett CBE DSc FRS (born 1945) is a British chemist who is noted for his work on insect pheromones.
Contents
- ICE 2016 Plenary Presentation Featuring Dr John A Pickett
- Education
- Career and research
- Awards and honours
- References
Education
Pickett completed Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the University of Surrey and was a postdoctoral researcher in organic chemistry at UMIST.
Career and research
He joining the Brewing Research Foundation. In 1976, he moved to Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research), studying ways to control insect pests by modifying behavioural activity. He was appointed Head of the Insecticides and Fungicides Department (later the Biological Chemistry Department) in 1984, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Pest and Disease Management in 2007, Scientific Leader of Chemical Ecology in 2010 and is currently a Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow.
Awards and honours
He has also been a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham since 1991, and an Honorary Member of the Academic Staff at the University of Reading since 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1996. He was appointed a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US) in 2014.
He was awarded a share of the 2008 Wolf Prize in Agriculture "for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. Their scientific contributions on chemical ecology have fostered the development of integrated pest management and significantly advanced agricultural sustainability." He delivered the Croonian Lecture the same year to the Royal Society on Plant and Animal Communication.