Douglas Kell

Douglas Kell
Born	April 7, 1953 (1953-04-07) (age 58)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	BBSRC, University of Manchester
Alma mater	University of Oxford

Professor Douglas Bruce Kell (born 7 April 1953) is a British biochemist at the University of Manchester^[1] and currently Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).^[2][3]

Education

He was educated at Hydneye House in Sussex, Bradfield College in Berkshire and St John's College, Oxford. He graduated with a BA Hons in Biochemistry in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Oxon) in 1978 with a thesis titled: "The Bioenergetics of Paracoccus denitrificans" supervised by Stuart Ferguson^[4] and Philip John.

From 1978 to 2002 he worked at Aberystwyth University, moving to UMIST in 2002 as EPSRC/RSC Research Chair in Bioanalytical Sciences.

Research

According to Google Scholar^[5] his most cited peer-reviewed research papers are in functional genomics,^[6] metabolomics^[7] and the yeast genome.^[8] He has also been involved in research to create a robot scientist^[9] in collaboration with Stephen Muggleton and Steve Oliver as well as several projects in systems biology^[10][11]

References

1. ^ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Douglas.kell Staff, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester
2. ^ http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2008/081001_new_chief_executive.html New Chief Executive joins UK's leading bioscience funder
3. ^ http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/November/24110801.asp Douglas Kell interview
4. ^ Kell, D.; John, P.; Ferguson, S. (1978). "The protonmotive force in phosphorylating membrane vesicles from Paracoccus denitrificans. Magnitude, sites of generation and comparison with the phosphorylation potential". The Biochemical journal 174 (1): 257–266. PMC 1185905. PMID 212022. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1185905.  edit
5. ^ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=douglas+kell Douglas Kell in Google Scholar
6. ^ Oliver, S. G.; Raamsdonk, L. M.; Teusink, B.; Broadhurst, D.; Zhang, N.; Hayes, A.; Walsh, M. C.; Berden, J. A. et al. (2001). "A functional genomics strategy that uses metabolome data to reveal the phenotype of silent mutations". Nature Biotechnology 19 (1): 45–50. doi:10.1038/83496. PMID 11135551.  edit
7. ^ Goodacre, R.; Vaidyanathan, S.; Dunn, W. B.; Harrigan, G. G.; Kell, D. B. (2004). "Metabolomics by numbers: Acquiring and understanding global metabolite data". Trends in Biotechnology 22 (5): 245–252. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2004.03.007. PMID 15109811.  edit
8. ^ Oliver, S.; Winson, M.; Kell, D.; Baganz, F. (1998). "Systematic functional analysis of the yeast genome". Trends in biotechnology 16 (9): 373–378. doi:10.1016/S0167-7799(98)01214-1. PMID 9744112.  edit
9. ^ King, R. D.; Whelan, K. E.; Jones, F. M.; Reiser, P. G. K.; Bryant, C. H.; Muggleton, S. H.; Kell, D. B.; Oliver, S. G. (2004). "Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist". Nature 427 (6971): 247–252. doi:10.1038/nature02236. PMID 14724639.  edit
10. ^ Kell, D. (2009). "Journal club". Nature 460 (7256): 669–669. Bibcode 2009Natur.460..669K. doi:10.1038/460669e. PMID 19661875.  edit
11. ^ Dobson, Paul D.; Smallbone, Kieran; Jameson, Daniel; Simeonidis, Evangelis.; Lanthaler, Karin; Pir, Pnar; Lu, Chuan; Swainston, Neil et al. (2010). "Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast". BMC Systems Biology 4: 145. doi:10.1186/1752-0509-4-145. PMC 2988745. PMID 21029416. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2988745.  edit

External links

• Douglas Kell homepage
• Professor Douglas Kell’s blog at the BBSRC
• Peer reviewed publications by Douglas Kell from PubMed
• Douglas Kell's publications on his website
• Publications by Douglas Kell in DBLP
• Interview with Douglas Kell on the website of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Douglas Kell research profile on BiomedExperts
• Grants awarded to Douglas Kell by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Douglas Kell on Twitter

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Date of birth	7 April 1953
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