Biography

Keith Lindsey is Professor of Plant Molecular Biology in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University (UK) and a Visiting Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan (China). His research interests are in understanding molecular mechanisms of plant development. A graduate of Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, he carried out postdoctoral research both at Edinburgh's Department of Botany and at the Department of Biochemistry at Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research). He was appointed to an academic faculty post at the University of Leicester in 1989, before moving to a Chair in Durham in 1996. He has previously held positions as President and Chair of Council of the Society for Experimental Biology (the UK's largest learned society for non-medical life sciences research); a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (BBSRC's governing body); and a member of the UK Government Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE, which advises government Ministers on genetically modified (GM)-related issues). He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and of the Royal Society of Biology. Keith has been an Editor of New Phytologist since 2003 and is Chair of The New Phytologist Foundation.