Tim Mitchison 1905811 219507612 2008-06-15T15:40:41Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Tim Mitchison.jpg|frame|right|Tim Mitchison {{deletable image-caption|1=Tuesday, 25 December 2007}}]] --> Professor '''Timothy John "Tim" Mitchison''', PhD, [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[systems biology|systems biologist]]. He is [[Hasib Sabbagh]] Professor of Systems Biology at [[Harvard University]] in the [[United States]]. == Biography == Mitchison comes from a family of distinguished biologists; he is the son of [[Avrion Mitchison]], 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 his wife, the writer [[Naomi Mitchison|Naomi (nee Haldane)]]. His younger sister Hannah is also a biologist. Mitchison completed his undergraduate degree at [[Oxford University]]. Afterward he moved to the [[University of California, San Francisco]] in the [[United States]] in 1979, where he worked for the Ph.D. under the supervision of [[Marc Kirschner]]. At this time he discovered the Dynamic Instability of Microtubules. Later he worked at the [[National Institute for Medical Research]] in [[London]]. In the late 1980s he returned to San Francisco to become an assistant professor at UCSF. In the late 1990s he moved to Harvard to become co-director of the Institute for Chemistry and Cell Biology at [[Harvard Medical School]]. Recently he became deputy chair of the newly formed Department of Systems Biology. He was elected [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1997. When lecturing, he has the habit of closing his eyes constantly while speaking. This can be somewhat disconcerting to the audience. He is also known for his distinctive pronunciation of "skeletal" and "cytoskeletal" (He pronounces it Skuh-LEE-tal). == References == * Wells, W. (1997) Tim Mitchison: dynamic productivity ''[[Current Biology]]'' 7:666-667 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9382812&dopt=Abstract pubmed] == External links == * [http://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/faculty/mitchison/ Webpage at Harvard] * [http://mitchison.med.harvard.edu/index.html Mitchison lab] ** [http://mitchison.med.harvard.edu/people/Tim.htm Mitchison lab personal page] * [http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/110306.html Harvard magazine article] {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchison, Tim}} [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Harvard University faculty]] [[Category:Systems biologists]] [[Category:University of California, San Francisco alumni]] [[Category:University of California, San Francisco faculty]]