Biography:William F. Martin
William Martin (born February 16, 1957 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist and microbiologist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf.
Born in Bethesda, Maryland, Martin was educated at Richland College, Dallas, Texas, and Texas A&M University. After working as a carpenter in Dallas, Martin moved to Hannover, Germany, and obtained his university Diploma from Technische Universität Hannover in 1985. Martin's PhD is from Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Cologne, where he did postdoctoral research, followed by further postdoctoral work at Institut für Genetik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, where he obtained his Habilitation in 1992.[citation needed] In 1999, Martin became full (C4) professor at Universität Düsseldorf.[citation needed]
Martin is a distinguished and sometimes controversial[citation needed] contributor to the field of molecular evolution and the origin of life. He is known particularly for his work on the evolution of the Calvin cycle and plastids including chloroplasts, and, more generally, for contributions to understanding the origin and evolution of eukaryotic cells. Martin is co-author, with Miklos Mueller of Rockefeller University, of the 1998 paper The Hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote.[citation needed] A wealth of subsequent research papers include contributions, independently and with Michael J. Russell of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to understanding the geochemical origins of cells and their biochemical pathways. Martin's work is well cited (nearly 30,000 times) and he has an h-index of 95.[1]
Awards
- 1990: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1997: Technology Transfer Prize, Industrie und Handelskammer Braunschweig
- 1998: Miescher-Ishida Prize of the International Society of Endocytobiology
- 2017: Spiridion Brusina Medal of the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences.[2]
- 2018: Preis der Klüh Stiftung [3]
Honours
- 2000-2007 Foreign Associate, CIAR Programme in Evolutionary Biology
- 2001- Faculty 1000 Member for Plant Genomes and Evolution
- 2006- Elected Fellow, American Academy for Microbiology
- 2006-2009 Julius von Haast Fellow of the New Zealand Ministry for Research, Science and Technology
- 2008 Elected Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Selected publications
- Martin, W; Mueller, M (1998). "The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote". Nature 392 (6671): 37–41. doi:10.1038/32096. PMID 9510246. Bibcode: 1998Natur.392...37M.
- Martin, W; Stoebe, B; Goremykin, V; Hansmann, S; Hasegawa, M; Kowallik, KV (1998). "Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts". Nature 393 (6681): 162–165. doi:10.1038/30234. PMID 11560168. Bibcode: 1998Natur.393..162M.
- Race, HL; Herrmann, RG; Martin, W (1999). "Why have organelles retained genomes?". Trends in Genetics 15 (9): 364–370. doi:10.1016/s0168-9525(99)01766-7. PMID 10461205. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1529207/1/Allen_Why%20organelle%20DNA%20V6.pdf.
- Martin, W; Rujan, T; Richly, E; Hansen, A; Cornelsen, S; Lins, T; Leister, D; Stoebe, B et al. (2002). "Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (19): 12246–12251. doi:10.1073/pnas.182432999. PMID 12218172. Bibcode: 2002PNAS...9912246M.
- Martin, W; Russell, MJ (2003). "On the origins of cells: An hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 358 (1429): 59–85. doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1183. PMID 12594918.
- Weiss, MC; Sousa, FL; Mrnjavac, N; Neukirchen, S; Roettger, M; Nelson-Sathi, S; Martin, WF (2016). "The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor". Nature Microbiology 1 (9): 16116. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.116. PMID 27562259.
References
- ↑ "Professor Martin Google Scholar Profile". https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ms16utkAAAAJ&hl=en.
- ↑ "Croatian Society of Natural Sciences". http://www.hdbmb.hr/news.htm.
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. William Martin erhält Preis der Klüh Stiftung 2018". http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/startseite/news-detailansicht-inkl-gb/article/prof-dr-william-martin-erhaelt-preis-der-klueh-stiftung-2018.html.
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