Nicholas Jose Talbot FRS FRSB was born on 5 September 1965 and is Group Leader and Executive Director at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.
14 Facts About Nick Talbot
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Nick Talbot went on to study at the University of Wales, Swansea for a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology graduating in 1986.
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Nick Talbot was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer in 2010.
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In 2018 Nick Talbot joined The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich as Group Leader and Executive Director.
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Nick Talbot's research investigates plant pathology and developmental biology, especially the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea, one of the world's most devastating diseases.
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Nick Talbot is the editor of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi and Plant-Pathogen Interactions.
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Nick Talbot's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Nick Talbot has twice been awarded prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grants in 2013 and 2022.
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Nick Talbot was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2010, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.
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Nicholas Nick Talbot is distinguished for his discoveries contributing to our knowledge of how fungi cause disease in plants.
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Nick Talbot has elucidated the molecular processes of cell differentiation and autophagic cell death in fungi causing diseases such as rice blast.
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Nick Talbot has shown how these processes are intimately involved in virulence and pathogenicity and are orchestrated to enable the complex cellular processes that enable a filamentous fungus to invade healthy plants.
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Nick Talbot's work is characterised by a combination of molecular, genetic, genomic and cell biological approaches.
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Nick Talbot is married to Catherine Ann Walsh, with two sons and one daughter.