Nicholas José Talbot Federal Reserve System Financial Stability Board is a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter.
Education
Talbot was educated at Midhurst Grammar School. He went on to study at the University of Wales, Swansea for a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology graduating in 1986. Following his undergraduate degree, he trained at the University of East Anglia (UEA) where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 for genetic and genomic analysis of the leaf mold Cladosporuim fulvum.
Career
After postdoctoral research at Purdue University from 1990 to 1993, Talbot was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Exeter in 1993, and has been Professor of Molecular Genetics since 1999. He was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor for and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. Talbot"s research investigates plant pathology and developmental biology, especially the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea, one of the world’s most devastating diseases.
Talbot is the editor of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Filamentous Fungi and Plant-Pathogen Interactions.
Talbot’s research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).
Membership
Royal Society]
Talbot was elected Fellow of the Society of Biology (Financial Stability Board) in 2010, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.