Person

Waterhouse, Peter Michael (1955 - )

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Born
24 November 1955
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumbria, United Kingdom
Occupation
Plant geneticist

Summary

Peter Waterhouse is an expert in plant genetics, known for leading the CSIRO research group that discovered the role of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), in virus resistance and gene silencing of plants. This research was reported in 1998 the US Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Waterhouse's research, demonstrated in rice and tobacco plants, opened up the possible applications of gene silencing as a way of tailoring plants for specific resistances and yields and has had a significant impact agricultural plant science. He collaborated closely with fellow Plant Industry research scientist Ming-Bo Wang on this research, and the two were awarded several prizes for their findings, including the 2007 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. Waterhouse was a research scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant industry between 1981 and 2008. He later became Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Queensland Institute of Technology.

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In 2005 Waterhouse was awarded the CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence (jointly with Ming-Bo Wang and colleagues) for leading research in one of the most high profile, commercially relevant areas of modern molecular biology, RNA interference (RNAi).

Chronology

1977
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
1977 - 1978
Career position - Research fellow, University of Cambridge
1981
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Scottish Crop Research Institute, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
1981
Career event - Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1986 - 1993
Career position - Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1989 - 1991
Career position - Leader of Virology sub-program, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1991 - 1992
Career position - Acting program leader in Plant Defence, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1992 - 1993
Career event - Visiting fellow, Centre for Protein Engineering, Medical Research Council Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge Antibody Technology Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
1993 - 1999
Career position - Leader of Virology sub-program, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1993 - 2000
Career position - Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1995 - 1998
Career position - Program leader of Plant Defence, CRC for Plant Sciences
1995 - 2008
Career position - Member, Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council
1999
Career position - Leader of the Genomics sub-program, CRC for Plant Sciences
2000 - 2006
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
2002
Award - Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Medal
2005
Award - CSIRO Chairman's Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence (with Ming-Bo Wang and colleagues)
2006 - 2008
Career position - Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
2007
Award - The Bulletin's Smartest Scientists in Australia with Ming-Bo Wang
2007
Award - Prime Minister's Prize for Science (with Ming-Bo Wang), Commonwealth of Australia
2008 -
Career position - Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
2008 - 2014
Career position - Professor, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
2008 - 2014
Award - Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship
2009 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2014 -
Career position - Professor of Molecular Genetics, Queensland Institute of Technology
2016 -
Award - ARC Laureate Fellowship

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