John Tooze
| John Tooze FRS | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 16, 1938 |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Studies on amphibian erythrocytes and erythropoietic tissues (1965) |
| Notable awards | EMBO Gold Medal |
John Tooze FRS[1] (born 16 May 1938)[2] was Vice President of Scientific and Facility Operations at Rockefeller University from 2005 to 2013 and formerly Executive Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).[3]
Education
Tooze was educated at Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham, Jesus College, Cambridge (BA, 1961) and King's College London (PhD, 1965)[2] while working in the laboratory where Maurice Wilkins and John Randall worked.[4]
Career and research
Following his PhD, Tooze spent two years working as a postdoctoral researcher with James Watson at Harvard University.[4] He returned to the UK and was appointed a Lecturer at King's College London from 1965 to 1968. He made a series of significant contributions to our understanding of the exocytic and endocytic pathways in neuroendocrine and exocrine cells and the exploitation of these pathways by enveloped animal viruses. He has also provided the first evidence that endocytic membranes are utilised in the morphogenesis of vaccinia and human cytomegalovirus.[1][5]
Tooze also served as Executive Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for over 20 years and Secretary of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC).[2][6][7][8] In 1982, he founded The EMBO Journal.[1][9]
For two years he worked full-time as assistant and then deputy editor of the scientific journal Nature working with the editor-in-chief John Maddox.[4][10]
Awards and honours
Tooze was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal and EMBO Membership, both in 1986[4] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994.[1][11]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Anon (1994). "Dr John Tooze FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- 1 2 3 TOOZE, Dr. John. Who's Who. 1995 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ↑ John Tooze's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 4 Ferry, Georgina (2014). "John Tooze Biography". embo.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-24.
- ↑ J. Tooze, M. Hollinshead, B. Reis, K. Radsak & H. Kern (1993). "Progeny vaccinia and human cytomegalovirus particles utilize early endosomal cisternae for their envelopes". European Journal of Cell Biology. 60 (1): 163–178. PMID 8385018.
- ↑ Tooze, John (1986). "The Role of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) in European Molecular Biology (1970-1983)". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 29 (3-2): S38–S46. doi:10.1353/pbm.1986.0017.
- ↑ Ferry, Georgina (2014). EMBO in perspective: a half-century in the life sciences (PDF). Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization. p. 145. ISBN 978-3-00-046271-9. OCLC 892947326. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-24.
- ↑ Ferry, Georgina (2014). "History: Fifty years of EMBO". Nature. London. 511 (7508): 150–151. doi:10.1038/511150a.
- ↑ Tooze, John (1986). "Signing off". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 11 (1): 2. doi:10.1016/0968-0004(86)90215-X.
- ↑ Tooze, John (1967). "Almost All the Viruses". Nature. 216 (5121): 1248–1249. doi:10.1038/2161248b0.
- ↑ Anon (31 January 2014). "John Tooze, VP of scientific and facility operations, retires". Rockefeller University. Archived from the original on 2016-03-18. Retrieved 15 March 2016.