Richard B. Flavell


Richard Bailey Flavell CBE, FRS is a British molecular biologist, Chief Scientific Officer of Ceres, Inc., and was director of John Innes Centre from 1987 to 1998.

Life

He was educated at the University of Birmingham and at the University of East Anglia. Following that he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1967-69 where he studied mitochondrial structure and function in Neurospora crassa. He then took up an appointment at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England in the Department of Cytogenetics under the leadership of Sir Ralph Riley. In the following years he built up a formidable team of plant molecular geneticists that emerged as one of the strongest in the world. The team was one of the first to clone plant DNA, to produce transgenic plants and to determine the structure of a plant mitochondrial genome. He also is Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Works

.Nicholas J. Brewin, Richard B. Flavell, , Nature Biotechnology 15, 222 - 223
.Richard B Flavell," A greener Revolution for All". Nature Biotechnology 34 1106-1110, 2016