Tim Mitchison | |
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Born | Timothy John Mitchison 1958 (age 65–66)[4] |
Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) University of California, San Francisco (PhD) |
Spouse | Christine M. Field[5] |
Awards | Haldane Lecture (2002) Keith R. Porter Lecture (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Systems biology |
Institutions | Harvard Medical School National Institute for Medical Research Marine Biological Laboratory[1] |
Thesis | Structure and Dynamics of Organized Microtubule Arrays (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Marc Kirschner[2][3] |
Notable students | Tony Hyman Julie Theriot Jason Swedlow Inke Nathke Katharina Ribbeck |
Website | mitchison |
Timothy John Mitchison FRS is a cell biologist and systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the United States.[6][7][8] He is known for his discovery, with Marc Kirschner, of dynamic instability in microtubules,[9][10] for studies of the mechanism of cell division, and for contributions to chemical biology.[11]