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GM Science Review Panel - Members' Interests
Professor Michael Gale FRS
Professor Mike Gale FRS is an Associate Research Director at the
John Innes Centre. Previously he was Head of the Cambridge Laboratory
which moved to Norwich in 1990 from Cambridge, following the privatisation
of the Plant Breeding Institute. His has carried out research into
the genetics of cereal crops. He has unravelled the genetics of
the Green Revolution semi-dwarfing genes and the genetic control
of pre-harvest sprouting resistance in wheat. He constructed the
first molecular map of hexaploid bread wheat and his group have
been international leaders in developing the concept of 'synteny',
whereby the conservation of gene content and gene order over millions
of years can be exploited in fundamental and applied comparative
genetics. He is the author of more than 200 articles in scientific
journals. His work has been acknowledged by the awards of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England Research Medal in 1994, the Rank
Prize for Nutrition in 1997, the Royal Society Darwin Medal in 1998.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and a Foreign
Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999.
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Personal Interests
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Non-Personal Interests
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Name of Organisation
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Plant Bioscience Ltd., Norwich
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Consultant
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Norwich Research Ltd
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Director
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Rockefeller Foundation, New York
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Consultant
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John Innes Enterprises
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Director
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CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, FAO, Rome
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Consultant
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Norwich Research Park Development Partnership Ltd
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Director
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DeMontford University
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Consultant
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Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India
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Member, Scientific Advisory Board
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International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines
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Member of the Board of Trustees
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Central Advisory Service, ISNAR, The Hague
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Chairman,
Steering Committee
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School of Biology, University of Reading
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Member, Science Advisory Committee
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The Royal Society, London
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Fellow
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Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing
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Foreign Member
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