James Murray#
| Membership Number: | 4315 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81238-murray-jim |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2020 Director and Head of School, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
- 2010 - 2015 Head, Division of Molecular Biosciences, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
- 2008 - present Professor of Biosciences, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
- 2004 - 2008 Professor of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - 2008 Academic Director, MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise course
- 2001 - 2004 University Reader in Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
- 1988 - 2001 University Lecturer in Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
- 1987 - 1988 EMBL Postdoctoral Fellowship, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
- 1983 - 1987 EMBL Predoctoral Fellowship, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Firefly luciferase
- Plant systems biology
- Plant cell cycle control
- Molecular diagnostics
- Plant developmental biology
- Plant cell biology
- Yeast plasmids and molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2012 - 2017 Royal Society-Wolfson Research Fellow
- 2012 BBSRC Commercial Innovator of the Year
