Jim Murray
Jim Murray is a Professor and former Head of School at the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales UK. He graduated from the University of Cambridge and then did his PhD research at the European Molecular Biology Lab in Heidelberg working on the molecular mechanisms of yeast plasmid maintenance. He then returned to Cambridge and joined the faculty of the then newly created Institute of Biotechnology, where he was appointed to a Personal Chair as Professor of Molecular Biotechnology in 2003. He moved to Cardiff University in 2008. He has current research interests in the area of cell division and cell cycle control in plants, and in particular its role in growth and development. He also works in the area of Loop Mediated Amplifciation (LAMP)-based molecular diagnostics and was a co-founder in Cambridge of the successful spinout company Lumora (now part of the Erba Mannheim group). He is a Fellow of the Academia Europaea and the Learned Society of Wales, an Associate Editor of Plant Molecular Biology and of Journal of Experimental Botany, and was President of the Society for Experimental Biology 2021-2023.
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