Cathie Martin

Catherine Rosemary Martin MBE FRS (born April 1955) is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of East Anglia and project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, co-ordinating research into the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address escalating chronic disease globally.[3][4][5][6][7]

Cathie Martin

MBE FRS
Cathie Martin at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Catherine Rosemary Martin

April 1955 (age 65)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forBlue tomato
AwardsEMBO Member (2011)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of East Anglia
John Innes Centre
ThesisPlant cell differentiation during seed germination (1981)
Notable studentsBeverley Glover[2]
Websitewww.jic.ac.uk/people/cathie-martin/

Education

Martin received a First Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. She then went on to obtain her PhD in Biochemistry in 1981, also from Cambridge.[8]

Research and career

Her research has included work on blood oranges, and purple, high anthocyanin tomatoes.[9][10]

After a period as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge[11][12] she moved to the John Innes Centre's Department of Genetics in 1983. She was the first to identify genes which regulated cell shape in plants.[11]

Since 2000, Cathie's research has focused on diet and health, researching how crops can be fortified to combat chronic disease across the world. This research has focused on plants which contain natural chemical compounds, which can be seen as 'natural medicines'. Examples include work researching blood oranges,[13] and high-anthocyanin purple tomatoes.[14]

With Liam Dolan, Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey she is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[15]

She is the editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell, and is the first woman and first non-American to hold this post.[11] She holds seven patents and co-founded the University spin-off company Norfolk Plant Sciences with Jonathan Jones, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the United States.[16][11]

Awards and honours

Martin was appointed MBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for "services to plant biotechnology"[17][18] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Most Promising Innovator 2014.[19] Cathie's research into Purple Tomatoes gained her and Dr Eugenio Butelli BBSRC's Most Promising Innovator award in 2014. She has also been recognised by:

References
  1. "Find people in the EMBO Communities". People.embo.org. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  2. Glover, Beverley Jane (1996). Cellular differentiation in plants (PhD thesis). University of East Anglia. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.338247. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. "Cathie Martin: Metabolic biology". Norwich: John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
  4. Dubos, Christian; Stracke, Ralf; Grotewold, Erich; Weisshaar, Bernd; Martin, Cathie; Lepiniec, Loïc (2010). "MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis". Trends in Plant Science. 15 (10): 573–581. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2010.06.005. PMID 20674465.
  5. Zhang, Yang; Butelli, Eugenio; Alseekh, Saleh; Tohge, Takayuki; Rallapalli, Ghanasyam; Luo, Jie; Kawar, Prashant G.; Hill, Lionel; Santino, Angelo; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Martin, Cathie (2015). "Multi-level engineering facilitates the production of phenylpropanoid compounds in tomato". Nature Communications. 6: 8635. doi:10.1038/ncomms9635. PMC 4639801. PMID 26497596.
  6. Cathie Martin publications from Europe PubMed Central
  7. Sponge, Creative. "Prof Cathie Martin - John Innes Centre". Jic.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  8. Martin, Catherine Rosemary (1981). Plant cell differentiation during seed germination. Lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557040208. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.277433.
  9. Butelli, Eugenio; Titta, Lucilla; Giorgio, Marco; Mock, Hans-Peter; Matros, Andrea; Peterek, Silke; Schijlen, Elio G W M; Hall, Robert D; Bovy, Arnaud G; Luo, Jie; Martin, Cathie (2008). "Enrichment of tomato fruit with health-promoting anthocyanins by expression of select transcription factors". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (11): 1301–1308. doi:10.1038/nbt.1506. PMID 18953354. S2CID 14895646.
  10. Jin, H. (2000). "Transcriptional repression by AtMYB4 controls production of UV-protecting sunscreens in Arabidopsis". The EMBO Journal. 19 (22): 6150–6161. doi:10.1093/emboj/19.22.6150. PMC 305818. PMID 11080161.
  11. "Cathie Martin Profile" (PDF). Brussels: European Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2015.
  12. Cathie Martin's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. "Scientists create new orange superjuice to help beat heart disease". The Independent. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  14. "Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops". BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  15. Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 978-0815340256.
  16. "Catherine Rosemary MARTIN". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016.
  17. "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 20.
  18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research. "Innovators 2014 part three – Cathie Martin and Eugenio Butelli's purple tomatoes – BBSRC". Bbsrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  20. "SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY PRESIDENT'S MEDALLISTS" (PDF). Sebiology.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  21. "Fellows – AAAS MemberCentral". Membercentral.aaas.org. Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  22. "Prof Cathie Martin made an MBE – John Innes Centre". Jic.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  23. "Catherine Martin". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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