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British biochemist and academic

Stephen BusbyFRS
Education	University of Cambridge (B.A. 1972), University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1975)
Known for	Molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression in bacteria
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	Pasteur Institute, University of Birmingham
Doctoral advisor	George Radda
Other academic advisors	Rex Richards

Stephen Busby FRS is a British biochemist, and professor at the University of Birmingham. His research is concerned with the molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression in bacteria, especially regulation of transcription initiation in Escherichia coli.

Career

Stephen Busby started his career working for several years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he remained until moving to the University of Birmingham in 1983.

After obtaining his doctorate at Oxford, he worked in the laboratory of George Radda, in collaboration with Rex Richards, on nuclear magnetic resonance of metabolites. Subsequently his interest moved towards reguatory mechanisms and transcription in bacteria, participating in making recommendations about transctiption initiation, and developing new methods for studying recombinant protein production.

Administrative activities

Busby was Head of the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham between 2012 and 2016. Over much of the same period he was chair of the Biochemical Society (2011–2016). He has been a Member of BBSRC Committee E (Fellowships).

References

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Hoult, D.I.; Busby, S.J.; Gadian, D. G.; Radda, G.K.; Richards, R. E.; Seeley, P.J. (1974). "Observation of tissue metabolites using P nuclear magnetic resonance". Nature. 252 (5481): 285–287. doi:10.1038/252285a0.
Browning, Douglas F.; Busby, S.J. (2004). "The regulation of bacterial transcription initiation". Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2 (1): 57–65. doi:10.1038/nrmicro787.
Mejía-Almonte, Citlalli; Busby, Stephen J.W.; Wade, Joseph T.; van Helden, Jacques; Arkin, Adam P.; Stormo, Gary D.; Eilbeck, Karen; Palsson, Bernhard O; Galagan, James E.; Collado-Vides, Julio (2020). "Redefining fundamental concepts of transcription initiation in bacteria". Nat. Rev. Genet. 21 (11): 699–714. doi:10.1038/s41576-020-0254-8. PMC 7990032. PMID 32665585.
Hothersall, J.; Osgerby, A.; Godfrey, R.; Overton, T.; Richards, R. E. "New vectors for urea-inducible recombinant protein production" (PDF). New Biotechnol. 72: 89–96. doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2022.10.003.

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v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2005
Fellows	James Barber Martin T. Barlow Laurence D. Barron Andrew Blake Harry Bryden Stephen Busby Luca Cardelli Deborah Charlesworth John Collinge Paul Corkum John Croxall Tom Curran John Diffley Julian Downward Ronald Ekers Robert Evans Philip Richard Evans Alastair Fitter Uta Frith David Gadsby Douglas Higgs Brian Kennett David Masser Thomas Masters Tom McKillop Goverdhan Mehta Roger Ervin Miller Michael J. Morgan Ian Paterson John Richard Anthony Pearson Philip Power Nicholas Proudfoot Trevor Robbins Douglas Ross Philip Russell Peter John Sadler Christopher Snowden David Spiegelhalter Daniel St Johnston Lloyd N. Trefethen Richard S. Ward Colin Watts John G. White Ernest Marshall Wright
Foreign	Raoul Bott Catherine Cesarsky Ilkka Hanski Hartmut Michel Ryōji Noyori Harold Varmus
Honorary	Leonard Wolfson

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