Cathie Martin

Cathie Martin
MBE
Born February 1955 (age 61)[1]
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Employer University of Cambridge, John Innes Centre, University of East Anglia
Awards Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Scientific career

Fields
Thesis Plant cell differentiation during seed germination (1981)
Known for Blue tomato
Website
www.jic.ac.uk/scientists/cathie-martin

Catherine Rosemary Martin (born February 1955)[1] MBE is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of East Anglia and project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, coordinating research into the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address escalating chronic disease globally.[2][3][4]

Education

Martin received a First Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. She then went on to obtain her PhD in Biochemistry in 1981.[5]

Research and career

Her research has included work on blood oranges, and purple, high anthocyanin tomatoes.[6][7]

After a period as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge[8][9] she moved to the John Innes Centre’s Department of Genetics in 1983. She was the first to identify genes which regulated cell shape in plants.[8]

In recent years, Cathie’s research has focused on diet and health, researching how crops can be fortified to combat chronic disease across the world. This research has focused on plants which contain natural chemical compounds, which can be seen as ‘natural medicines’. Examples include work researching blood oranges,[10] and high-anthocyanin purple tomatoes.[11]

With Liam Dolan, Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey she is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[12]

She is the editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell, and is the first woman and first non-American to hold this post.[8] She holds seven patents and co-founded the corporate spin-off company Norfolk Plant Sciences with Jonathan Jones FRS, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the United States.[1][8]

Awards and honours

Martin was appointed MBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for "services to plant biotechnology"[13][14] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)’s Most Promising Innovator 2014.[15] Cathie’s research into Purple Tomatoes gained her and Dr Eugenio Butelli BBSRC’s Most Promising Innovator award in 2014. She has also been recognised by:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catherine Rosemary MARTIN". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10.
  2. ↑ "Cathie Martin: Metabolic biology". Norwich: John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22.
  3. ↑ Dubos, Christian; Stracke, Ralf; Grotewold, Erich; Weisshaar, Bernd; Martin, Cathie; Lepiniec, Loïc (2010). "MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis". Trends in Plant Science. 15 (10): 573–581. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2010.06.005.
  4. ↑ Zhang, Yang; Butelli, Eugenio; Alseekh, Saleh; Tohge, Takayuki; Rallapalli, Ghanasyam; Luo, Jie; Kawar, Prashant G.; Hill, Lionel; Santino, Angelo; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Martin, Cathie (2015). "Multi-level engineering facilitates the production of phenylpropanoid compounds in tomato". Nature Communications. 6: 8635. doi:10.1038/ncomms9635.
  5. ↑ Martin, Catherine Rosemary (1981). Plant cell differentiation during seed germination (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557040208.
  6. ↑ Butelli, Eugenio; Titta, Lucilla; Giorgio, Marco; Mock, Hans-Peter; Matros, Andrea; Peterek, Silke; Schijlen, Elio G W M; Hall, Robert D; Bovy, Arnaud G; Luo, Jie; Martin, Cathie (2008). "Enrichment of tomato fruit with health-promoting anthocyanins by expression of select transcription factors". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (11): 1301–1308. doi:10.1038/nbt.1506.
  7. ↑ Jin, H. (2000). "Transcriptional repression by AtMYB4 controls production of UV-protecting sunscreens in Arabidopsis". The EMBO Journal. 19 (22): 6150–6161. doi:10.1093/emboj/19.22.6150. PMC 305818Freely accessible. PMID 11080161.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Cathie Martin Profile" (PDF). Brussels: European Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23.
  9. ↑ Cathie Martin's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ "Scientists create new orange superjuice to help beat heart disease". Independent.co.uk. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  11. ↑ "Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  12. ↑ Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 0815340257.
  13. 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60534. p. 20. 2013-06-15.
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  15. 1 2 Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research. "Innovators 2014 part three – Cathie Martin and Eugenio Butelli's purple tomatoes - BBSRC". Bbsrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  16. ↑ "SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY PRESIDENT'S MEDALLISTS" (PDF). Sebiology.org. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  17. ↑ "Fellows - AAAS MemberCentral". Membercentral.aaas.org. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  18. ↑ "Prof Cathie Martin made an MBE - John Innes Centre". Jic.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
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