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molecular cell biologist

Keith Gull, British molecular cell biologist. Achievements include discovery of mode of action of the antibiotic griseofulvin; antimicrotubule drug selective toxicity; the trypanosome cytoskeleton in cell division. Darwin lectureship British Association, 1983. Fellow Academy Medical Science, 1999.

Background

Gull, Keith was born on May 29, 1948 in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. Son of David and Doris (Manging) Gull.

Education

Gull was educated at Eston Grammar School and where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973.

Career

He has been the principal of Street Edmund Hall, Oxford since 1 October 2009, succeeding Michael Mingos. He held a personal chair at Kent when he moved to the University of Manchester where he spent the 1990s involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean. He moved to Oxford in 2002.

He was Chairman of the Biochemical Society (1999–2002), and is a trustee of Cancer Research United Kingdom. According to Google Scholar and Scopus his most cited peer-reviewed scientific papers are on Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi.

More recently, the Gull laboratory has worked on Leishmania.

Achievements

  • Keith Gull has been listed as a noteworthy molecular cell biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Royal Society]

Gull was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization) in 2010.

Interests

  • Avocations: fly fishing, painting.

Connections

Married Dianne Hilary Elgar, August 12, 1972. Children: David Graeme, Hannah Ruth.

Father:
David Gull

Mother:
Doris (Manging) Gull

Spouse:
Dianne Hilary Elgar

child:
David Graeme Gull

child:
Hannah Ruth Gull

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Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Society; Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Marjory Stephenson Prize Marjory Stephenson Prize

    The Marjory Stephenson Prize is the principal prize of the Society for General Microbiology, awarded for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.