Nicholas José Talbot
FRS
FRSB (born 5 September 1965) is Group Leader and Executive Director at
The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.
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Education
Talbot was educated at
Midhurst Grammar School .
[2] He went on to study at the
University of Wales, Swansea for a Bachelor of Science degree in
Microbiology graduating in 1986. Following his undergraduate degree, he trained at the
University of East Anglia (UEA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1990 for
genetic and
genomic analysis of the leaf
mould Cladosporuim fulvum .
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Career
After
postdoctoral research at
Purdue University from 1990 to 1993,
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[7] Talbot was appointed a Lecturer at the
University of Exeter in 1993, and has been Professor of Molecular Genetics since 1999. He was appointed
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. In 2018 Talbot joined The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich as Group Leader and Executive Director.
Research
Talbot's research investigates
plant pathology and
developmental biology ,
[1] especially the rice blast fungus
Magnaporthe grisea ,
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[12] one of the world's most devastating diseases. Talbot is the editor of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi
[13] and Plant-Pathogen Interactions .
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Talbot's research has been funded by the
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) .
[15] Talbot has twice been awarded prestigious
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants in 2013
[16] and 2022.
[17] His current ERC grant supports the SEPBLAST project which will build on his research group's recent discoveries on fungal morphogenetic proteins, called septins, being essential for the rice blast pathogen to cause disease.
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Awards and honours
Talbot was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2010, a member of the
European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013, and a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:
Nicholas Talbot is distinguished for his discoveries contributing to our knowledge of how fungi cause disease in plants. He has elucidated the molecular processes of cell differentiation and
autophagic
cell death in fungi causing diseases such as
rice blast . He 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. His work is characterised by a combination of
molecular , genetic, genomic and
cell biological approaches.
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Personal life
Talbot is married to Catherine Ann Walsh, with two sons and one daughter.
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References
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Nick Talbot publications indexed by
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"TALBOT, Prof. Nicholas José" .
Who's Who . Vol. 2014 (online
Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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ORCID
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Nick Talbot's publications indexed by the
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Talbot, Nicholas José (1990).
Genetic and genomic analysis of Cladosporuim fulvum (syn. Fulvia fulva) (PhD thesis). University of East Anglia.
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"Professor Nick Talbot FRS FSB" .
University of Exeter . Retrieved 23 September 2014 .
^ Talbot, N. J.; Salch, Y. P.; Ma, M; Hamer, J. E. (1993).
"Karyotypic Variation within Clonal Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea" . Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 59 (2): 585–93.
Bibcode :
1993ApEnM..59..585T .
doi :
10.1128/AEM.59.2.585-593.1993 .
PMC
202148 .
PMID
16348876 .
^ Dean, R. A.;
Talbot, N. J. ; Ebbole, D. J.; Farman, M. L.; Mitchell, T. K.; Orbach, M. J.; Thon, M; Kulkarni, R; Xu, J. R.; Pan, H; Read, N. D.; Lee, Y. H.; Carbone, I; Brown, D; Oh, Y. Y.; Donofrio, N; Jeong, J. S.; Soanes, D. M.; Djonovic, S; Kolomiets, E; Rehmeyer, C; Li, W; Harding, M; Kim, S; Lebrun, M. H.; Bohnert, H; Coughlan, S; Butler, J; Calvo, S; et al. (2005).
"The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea" . Nature . 434 (7036): 980–6.
Bibcode :
2005Natur.434..980D .
doi :
10.1038/nature03449 .
PMID
15846337 .
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Talbot, N. J. (2003). "On the trail of a cereal killer: Exploring the Biology of Magnaporthe grisea ". Annual Review of Microbiology . 57 : 177–202.
doi :
10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090957 .
PMID
14527276 .
^ Veneault-Fourrey, C.; Barooah, M; Egan, M; Wakley, G; Talbot, N. J. (2006). "Autophagic Fungal Cell Death is Necessary for Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus". Science . 312 (5773): 580–3.
Bibcode :
2006Sci...312..580V .
doi :
10.1126/science.1124550 .
PMID
16645096 .
S2CID
11323211 .
^ Talbot, N. J. (1993).
"Identification and Characterization of MPG1, a Gene Involved in Pathogenicity from the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea" .
The Plant Cell . 5 (11): 1575–90.
doi :
10.1105/tpc.5.11.1575 .
PMC
160387 .
PMID
8312740 .
^ Thines, E; Weber, R. W.; Talbot, N. J. (2000).
"MAP kinase and protein kinase A-dependent mobilization of triacylglycerol and glycogen during appressorium turgor generation by Magnaporthe grisea" .
The Plant Cell . 12 (9): 1703–18.
doi :
10.2307/3871184 .
JSTOR
3871184 .
PMC
149080 .
PMID
11006342 .
^ Talbot, Nick (2001). Molecular and cellular biology of filamentous fungi: a practical approach . Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0199638373 .
^ Talbot, Nick (2004). Plant-pathogen interactions . Oxford: Blackwell Pub.
ISBN
9781405147934 .
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"UK Government research grants awarded to Nicholas Talbot]" . rcuk.ac.uk .
Research Councils UK . Archived from
the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2014 .
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"Datahub of ERC funded projects" . erc.easme-web.eu . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
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"Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro grant" . Norwich Research Park . 29 April 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
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"Exciting research on plant infections awarded a multi-million euro…" . The Sainsbury Laboratory . 27 April 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ Anon (2014).
"Professor Nicholas Talbot FRS" . London: royalsociety.org. Archived from
the original on 24 September 2014.
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