Tim Mitchison

Tim Mitchison
FRS
Born Timothy John Mitchison
1958 (age 59–60)[1]
Edinburgh
Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA)
University of California, San Francisco (PhD)
Spouse(s) Christine M. Field[2]
Awards Haldane Lecture (2002)
Keith R. Porter Lecture (2013)
Scientific career
Fields Systems biology
Institutions Harvard Medical School
National Institute for Medical Research
Marine Biological Laboratory[3]
Thesis Structure and Dynamics of Organized Microtubule Arrays (1984)
Doctoral advisor Marc Kirschner[4][5]
Website mitchison.hms.harvard.edu/people/timothy-mitchison

Timothy John Mitchison FRS is a systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor at Harvard Medical School in the United States.[6][7][8]

Education and early life

Mitchison was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student of Merton College, Oxford. He moved to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1979 for his PhD which was supervised by Marc Kirschner[9] and investigated the dynamic instability of microtubules.[9][10]

Career and research

Mitchison returned to the UK for postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London. In the late 1980s he returned to San Francisco where he was appointed assistant professor at UCSF. In the late 1990s he moved to Harvard University to become co-director of the Institute for Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 2006 he became deputy chair of the newly formed department of systems biology with Peter Sorger.

Awards and honors

Mitchison was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997 for “substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge”[11] and served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in 2010. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2014[12] and delivered the Keith R. Porter Lecture in 2013.

Personal life

Mitchison is married to scientist Christine M. Field with he has adopted two children.[2] Mitchison comes from a family of distinguished biologists; his father is Avrion Mitchison,[6] his uncles are Denis Mitchison and Murdoch Mitchison, his great uncle was J.B.S. Haldane and his great-grandfather John Scott Haldane. His grandparents were the politician Dick Mitchison and the writer Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane). His younger sister Hannah M. Mitchison is also a biologist.

References

  1. ↑ "Profile" (PDF). www.ascb.org.
  2. 1 2 "Timothy Mitchison". 1 November 2003.
  3. ↑ "Tim Mitchison (Harvard) Part 1: Self-organization of microtubule assemblies". YouTube.com.
  4. ↑ "Cell Biology Tree - Timothy J. Mitchison". academictree.org.
  5. ↑ Mitchison, T. J. (2013). "A question of taste". Molecular Biology of the Cell. 24 (21): 3278–3280. doi:10.1091/mbc.e13-07-0410. ISSN 1059-1524. PMC 3814136. PMID 24174461.
  6. 1 2 Wells, William (1997). "Tim Mitchison: Dynamic productivity". Current Biology. 7 (11): R666–R667. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(06)00346-0. PMID 9382812.
  7. ↑ "Timothy Mitchison". mitchison.hms.harvard.edu.
  8. ↑ Ishihara, K.; Nguyen, P. A.; Wuhr, M.; Groen, A. C.; Field, C. M.; Mitchison, T. J. (2014). "Organization of early frog embryos by chemical waves emanating from centrosomes". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 369 (1650): 20130454–20130454. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0454. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 4113098. PMID 25047608.
  9. 1 2 Mitchison, Timothy John (1984). Structure and Dynamics of Organized Microtubule Arrays. proquest.com (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 1020493513.
  10. ↑ Mitchison, Tim; Kirschner, Marc (1984). "Dynamic instability of microtubule growth". Nature. 312 (5991): 237–242. doi:10.1038/312237a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 6504138.
  11. ↑ Anon (1997). "Professor Timothy Mitchison FRS". royalsociety. London: Royal Society. 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)
  12. ↑ http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "Timothy Mitchison". www.nasonline.org.

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