Name William Earnshaw | ||
Institutions University of Edinburgh
Johns Hopkins University
University of Geneva
University of Cambridge Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) Thesis The Structure of Bacteriophage p22 and its Assembly Intermediates (1977) Doctoral students Jan Bergmann
Anca Petruti-Mot
Susana Ribeiro
Laura Wood
Zhenjie Xu
Nikolaj Zuleger Notable awards FRS (2013)
FRSE
EMBO member (1999)
FMedSci (2009) Books Cell Biology Pageburst E-book on Vitalsource Retail Access Card, Bild CD-ROM Cell Biology | ||
William Charles Earnshaw FRS FRSE FMedSci is Professor of Chromosome Dynamics at the University of Edinburgh where he has been a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow since 1996.
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Education
Earnshaw was educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was awarded a PhD in 1977 for research on Enterobacteria phage P22 supervised by Jonathan King.
Career
Earnshaw completed postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge with Aaron Klug and Ron Laskey and at the University of Geneva with Ulrich Laemmli. Following this, he moved to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, working in Tom Pollard's department of cell biology for 13 years.
Awards and honours
Earnshaw was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His certificate of election reads:
Earnshaw is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).