Item GS/8/9/6/5 - Photograph of Keith Chater

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Black and white photograph of Keith Chater

Admin History: Prof Keith Chater, Emeritus Fellow, Molecular Microbiology Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, and John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow. He is a member of Faculty of 1000. He is honorary professor at University of East Anglia. Chater studied for a PhD at Birmingham University working on transduction in Salmonella, after which he joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with David Hopwood. His group developed the FC31 bacteriophage into a series of cloning vectors that are used to isolate genes in Streptomyces.