Cathie's CV
My research has focused on cellular specialisation in plants and I was the first to identify genes regulating cell shaping in plants. I have been a plenary speaker and session organiser at several international biotechnology meetings, and I have been asked to present the work I co-ordinate on the European Union-sponsored FLORA project at many international biotechnology meetings. I am inventor on seven patents and I recently co-founded a spin-out company (Norfolk Plant Sciences) with Professor Jonathan Jones FRS, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the US. My interests span the entire spectrum of plant biology, and in biological questions from the fundamental right to the applied ends of plant science. I am Editor-in-Chief of Plant Cell, the highest ranking international journal for research on plants sponsored by the American Society of Plant Biologists. I am the first woman and the first non-American to hold this post.
1977 First Class Hons. in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge (Part II: Botany)
1981 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Posts Held:
1981-1983 Cambridge University Research Fellow Research
1983 Higher Scientific Officer, Department of Genetics, John Innes Institute,
1986 Promoted to Senior Scientific Officer, John Innes Institute
1990 Unified Grade 7, John Innes Institute
1996 Individual Merit Promotion to Band 3, John Innes Centre (Renewed 2002)
1996-2000 Editorial Board, Plant Journal
1998-2002 Honorary Reader, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
2000- Visiting Professor, Royal Holloway College, University of London
2000- Co-Editor, Plant Cell
2000-2005 Program Grant Committee Member, HFSP
2002 Honorary Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia.
2004 Associate Editor, Plant Cell
2004 Editorial Board, Trends in Plant Sciences
2008-2013 Editor in Chief, Plant Cell
