1. Anne Elisabeth Osbourn is a professor of biology and group leader at the John Innes Centre, where she investigates plant natural product biosynthesis.
20 Facts About Anne Osbourn
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Anne Osbourn discovered that in the plant genome, the genes involved with biosynthesis organise in clusters.
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Anne Osbourn is a popular science communicator, poet and is the founder of the Science, Art and Writing Initiative.
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Anne Osbourn was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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Anne Osbourn became interested in plants as a child and she attended Bingley Grammar School graduating in 1979.
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Anne Osbourn earned a bachelor's degree in botany at Durham University in 1982.
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Anne Osbourn has described the Salem State University educationalist Louise Swiniarksi as her 'anchor throughout my adult life'.
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Anne Osbourn moved to Norwich in 1985 to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre.
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Anne Osbourn identified that metabolic pathways organise in operon-like clusters, which allowed her to develop a novel opportunity to discover natural product pathways through genome mining.
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Anne Osbourn's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
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In 2006, Anne Osbourn became an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia.
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Anne Osbourn was the Director of the Norwich Research Park Industrial Biotechnology Alliance from 2013 to 2019.
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In 2004, Anne Osbourn was appointed to the UEA Creative Writing Course as a Nesta dreamtime fellow.
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Since then Anne Osbourn has become a popular science writer, and inspired by her own creative practice she founded the Science, Art and Writing Trust in 2005.
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In 2016 Anne Osbourn took part in an international exchange with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
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Anne Osbourn is an editor of the New Phytologist and is on the editorial board of Molecular Plant.
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Anne Osbourn has won various awards and honours, including the medal of the University of Helsinki in 2003.
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In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 2019 Anne Osbourn was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Anne Osbourn is the thirtieth research who has been elected Fellow from the John Innes Centre.
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Anne Osbourn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to plant science.