Person
Ellis, Jeffrey Graham (Jeff) (1953 - )
FAA FRS
- Born
- 4 May 1953
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Geneticist and Plant breeder
Summary
Jeffrey Graham Ellis is a leading plant geneticist. He has done extensive work genetically engineering plant species to become resistant to major diseases.
He has been a Senior Principal Research Scientist in the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry since 2001.
Details
Chronology
- 1976
- Education - Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons 1), University of Adelaide
- 1981
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Adelaide
- 1981 - 1982
- Career position - CSIRO Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Genetics Department, State University, Ghent, Belgium
- 1982 - 1984
- Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Plant Industry
- 1984 - 1992
- Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industry
- 1993 - 2001
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist and Project Leader of Program Y, CSIRO Plant Industry
- 1996 - 1998
- Career position - Associate Editor, Molecular plant microbe interactions
- 2001 -
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist and Program Leader of Program Y, Genetic Engineering for Plant Improvement in CSIRO Plant Industry
- 2001 - 2006
- Career position - Co-Editor, The plant cell
- 2005
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 2008
- Career position - CSIRO Fellow
- 2009
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Ellis, Jeffrey Graham (19530504-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514353. Details
Resource Sections
- Ward, C., 'Jeffrey Graham (Jeff) Ellis', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Ellis-Jeffrey-Graham. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 24 February 2012, Last modified: 10 January 2023