Ray Dixon#
| Membership Number: | 5537 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.jic.ac.uk/directory/ray-dixon |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6348-639X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Project Leader, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre and co-Director of the CAS-JIC Centre for Excellence in Plant and Microbial Sciences (located in Beijing and Shanghai)
- 2009 - 2013 Head of Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre
- 1998 - present Honorary Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
- 1995 - 2009 Research Group Leader Department of Molecular Microbiology John Innes Centre, Norwich UK
- 1987 - 1995 Senior Principal Scientific Officer, AFRC Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, University of Sussex (individual merit)
- 1978 - 1987 Principal Scientific Officer, AFRC Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory
- 1976 - 1978 Senior Scientific Officer, AFRC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Sussex
- 1975 - 1976 Higher Scientific Officer, AFRC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Sussex , Brighton
- 1975,05 - 1975,08 Visiting Research Fellow ,Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1973 - 1975,04 Post-doctoral research fellowship, University of Sussex
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological nitrogen fixation
- Transcriptional regulation
- Signal transduction in response to nitrogen and oxygen
- Bacterial enhancer binding proteins
- Synthetic biology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate, University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1987 Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 1983 Fleming Award, Society for General Microbiology
