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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1969 - present Scientist at John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K., investigating Streptomyces genetics and differentiation.
  • 1983 Fulbright Scholarship, Harvard University
  • 1983 - 1997 Member of Editorial Board, Gene / Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Bacteriology
  • 1988 - present Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia
  • 1995 Fellow of The Royal Society
  • 1997 Fred Griffith Review Lecture, Society for General Microbiology
  • 1998 - 2001 1998-2001 Head of Department of Genetics.
  • 1998-present Honorary Professor, Chinese National Academy of Sciences Institute of Microbiology, Beijing
  • 2000-present Honorary Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
  • 2001 - 2004 Head of Department of Molecular Microbiology.
  • 2003 - 2004 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Molecular Microbiology
  • 2004 - present John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow, John Innes Centre.
  • 2004 - 2009 Member of Editorial Board, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • 2004 - present Contributor to Faculty of 1000
  • 2005 Leeuwenhoek Lecuture, Royal Society

Keith Chater

John Innes Emeritus Fellow

Molecular Microbiology

Contact details

keith.chater@jic.ac.uk

Recent Publications

Chandra G., Chater K. F., Bornemann S. (2011)
Unexpected and widespread connections between bacterial glycogen and trehalose metabolism.
Microbiology 157 (6) 1565-1572
DOI:10.1099/mic.0.044263-0
Chater K. F. (2011)
Differentiation in Streptomyces: the properties and programming of diverse cell types.
Streptomyces Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Caister Academic Press
(3) 43–86
Fowler-Goldsworthy K., Gust B., Mouz S., Chandra G., Findlay K. C., Chater K. F. (2011)
The actinobacteria-specific gene wb1A controls major developmental transitions in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology-SGM 157 (5) 1312–1328
DOI:10.1099/mic.0.047555-0
Syson K., Stevenson C. E. M., Rejzek M., Fairhurst S. A., Nair A., Bruton C. J., Field R. A., Chater K. F., Lawson D. M., Bornemann S. (2011)
Structure of a Streptomyces maltosyltransferase GlgE: a homologue of a genetically validated anti-tuberculosis target
Journal of Biological Chemistry 286 (44) 38298-38310
DOI:10.1074/jbc.M111.279315
Aínsa J. A., Bird N., Ryding N. J., Findlay K. C., Chater K. F. (2010)
The complex whiJ locus mediates environmentally sensitive repression of development of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 98 (2) 225-236
DOI:10.1007/s10482-010-9443-3
Chater K. F., Biró S., Lee K. J., Palmer T., Schrempf H. (2010)
The complex extracellular biology of Streptomyces
FEMS Microbiology Reviews 34 (2) 171-198
DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00206.x
Ditkowski B., Troc P., Ginda K., Donczew M., Chater K. F., Zakrzewska-Czerwinska J., Jakimowicz D. (2010)
The actinobacterial signature protein ParJ (SCO1662) regulates ParA polymerization and affects chromosome segregation and cell division during Streptomyces sporulation.
Molecular Microbiology 78 (6) 1403-1415
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07409.x