Jeff Ellis | |
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Born | Jeffrey Graham Ellis 4 May 1953 Adelaide |
Education | University of Adelaide (Ph.D. 1981) |
Known for | Cloning and characterizing plant disease resistance genes |
Awards | Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plant Genetics |
Institutions | CSIRO Plant Industry |
Jeffrey Graham (Jeff) Ellis FRS FAA (born 4 May 1953 in Adelaide) is an Australian plant scientist, and Program Leader at CSIRO Plant Industry.[1][2]
He earned a BAgSc in 1976, and a PhD in 1981, from the University of Adelaide.[3] In 1984, as a Research Scientist in CSIRO Plant Industry, he worked on the identification of transcriptional control elements in the promoters of the maize alcohol dehydrogenase gene and the Agrobacterium T-DNA gene octopine synthase. Ellis and his research team were among the first to clone and characterize plant disease resistance genes.[4]