MA, PhD Cambridge. Retired as Deputy Director of John Innes Centre in 2006. Emeritus Professor at University of East Anglia. Published more than 150 papers in refereed journals, and also co-author of the major textbooks, Molecular Biology of the Cell now in its 6th edition (2014), Essential Cell Biology now in its 4th edition (2013), and Plant Cell Walls (2010). Also edited a two volume Handbook of Plant Science (2007).
