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Notable awards
  
FRS (2013)

Name
  
Mervyn Bibb


Doctoral advisor
  
David Hopwood

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Fields
  
Molecular microbiology Actinomycetes Antibiotic biosynthesis Gene regulation

Institutions
  
John Innes Centre Stanford University

Thesis
  
Genetic and physical studies of a Streptomyces coelicolor plasmid (1978)

Institution
  
John Innes Centre, Stanford University

Alma mater
  
University of East Anglia

Mervyn James Bibb FRS is a Professor of Molecular microbiology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

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Education

Bibb was educated at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences and was awarded a PhD in 1978 for studies of plasmids in Streptomyces coelicolor.

Research

Bibb does research on

  • The regulation of secondary metabolism (antibiotic production) in streptomycetes
  • Functional genomics in Streptomyces, particularly transcriptome and proteome analysis
  • Lantibiotics from actinomycetes

    • Awards and honours

    Bibb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:

    References

    Mervyn Bibb Wikipedia
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