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Alma mater
  
Name
  
Stephen Oliver


Role
  
Scientist

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Born
  
Stephen George Oliver 3 November 1949 (age 75) (
1949-11-03
)

Institutions
  
UMISTUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of KentUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of California, IrvineNational Institute for Medical Research

Thesis
  
The role of RNA in the maintenance of mitochondrial DNA in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1975)

Doctoral students
  
Kyangyu YenRichard HarrisonChris LockwoodWalid Ahmed Mohamed Omara

Known for
  
Robot ScientistSystems Biology

Notable awards
  
FMedSci (2002)EMBO member (2004)FAAAS (2008)

Stephen oliver naidoc awards 2015 nitv


Stephen George Oliver FMedSci FAAAS (born 3 November 1949) is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

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Education

Oliver was educated at the University of Bristol gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology in 1971 followed by a PhD from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in 1974.

Research

Oliver's areas of research include functional genomics, systems biology and drug discovery using the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae which he has worked on since the 1970s. In 1992, whilst working at UMIST, Oliver led the team which provided first complete sequence analysis of an entire chromosome from any organism. More recently he has also been involved in the creation of a Robot Scientist and has been awarded research funding as principal investigator or co-investigator with a total value of over £26 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

References

Stephen Oliver (scientist) Wikipedia


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