Anne Osbourn
Anne Osbourn | |
|---|---|
Osbourn in 2015 | |
| Born | Anne Elisabeth Osbourn |
| Education | Bingley Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Durham University University of Birmingham |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Natural products |
| Institutions | John Innes Centre University of East Anglia Sainsbury Laboratory New Phytologist |
| Thesis | Host adaptation and variation in septoria nodorum (1985) |
| Website | www |
Anne Elisabeth Osbourn is a professor of biology and group leader at the John Innes Centre, where she investigates plant natural product biosynthesis. She discovered that in the plant genome, the genes involved with biosynthesis organise in clusters. She is also a popular science communicator, poet and is the founder of the Science, Art and Writing (SAW) Initiative. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.