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Jean Beggs | |
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| Born | Jean Duthie Lancaster 16 April 1950 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | Glasgow High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Known for | Molecular and cell biology, Genetics |
| Spouse | Dr Ian Beggs |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Awards | FRSE (1995) FRS (1998) CBE (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gene cloning in yeast, RNA splicing |
| Institutions | |
Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS FRSE DSc (née Lancaster, born 16 April 1950) is a Scottish geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.[1][2][3]
Biography
Beggs was born Jean Duthie Lancaster on 16 April 1950 to Jean Crawford (née Duthie) and William Renfrew Lancaster.[1] She attended Glasgow High School for Girls. She graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry in 1971,[4] and received her PhD from the University in 1974. From 1974-1977 she held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh working with Professors Kenneth and Noreen Murray.[1][4] Having received a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, Beggs moved to the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, working there for 2 years. In 1979, she began work as a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College London. In 1985, Beggs returned to the University of Edinburgh's Molecular Biology department at Edinburgh, where she was appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1999.[1][4][5]
Her research interests are in RNA splicing.[6]
In 1972 she married Dr Ian Beggs. They have two sons.[1]
Awards and honours
She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1995[1][7] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998.[8]
In 2003, she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".[9]
She received a CBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to science.[10]
She was the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vice President for Life Sciences from 2009 to 2012.
In 2016 she was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of St Andrews.[11]
In 2018 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Who's who (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2017.
- ^ "Jean Beggs profile". eurasnet.info. EURASNET. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ Jean Beggs publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c "Meet the team | The Beggs Lab". beggs.bio.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (30 November 2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Jean Beggs". wcb.ed.ac.uk. Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Biology.ed.ac.uk. School of Biological Sciences. 5 February 2010. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Royal Society of London". cirs-tm.org. CIRS. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Professor Jean Beggs FRS". Manchester: University og Manchester. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2016/title,562751,en.php
- ^ "Jean Beggs: 2018 RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award | RNA Society". Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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