Martin Embley

Martin Embley
FRS FMedSci
Born
Thomas Martin Embley
EducationNewcastle University (PhD)
AwardsEMBO Membership (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsEukaryotes
Evolution
WorkplacesNewcastle University
North East London Polytechnic
Natural History Museum, London
ThesisAspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum (1983)
Websiteresearch.ncl.ac.uk/microbial_eukaryotes/martinembley.html

Thomas Martin Embley is a British scientist who is a professor at Newcastle University who has made contributions to the understanding of the origin of eukaryotes and the evolution of organelles such as mitochondria, mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, that are found in parasitic protists.

In May 2021, Embley was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011.

Education

Embley was educated at Newcastle University, where he was awarded a PhD on the biology of the bacterium Renibacterium salmoninarum in 1983.

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2009). "Martin Embley EMBO biography". people.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. ↑ Martin Embley publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 Anon (2019). "Professor Martin Embley FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  4. ↑ Martin Embley publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ↑ Berriman, M. (2005). "The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei". Science. 309 (5733): 416–422. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..416B. doi:10.1126/science.1112642. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16020726. S2CID 18649858.
  6. ↑ Embley, T. Martin; Martin, William (2006). "Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges". Nature. 440 (7084): 623–630. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..623E. doi:10.1038/nature04546. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 16572163. S2CID 4396543.
  7. ↑ "Two leading scientists recognised with 'science Oscars'".
  8. ↑ "Professor Martin Embley FRS FMedSci". Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
  9. ↑ Embley, Thomas Martin (1983). Aspects of the biology of Renibacterium salmoninarum. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Newcastle upon Tyne. OCLC 10497082. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.372322.