J.B. Neilands
| Joe Neilands | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 11, 1921 Glen Valley, British Columbia |
| Died | October 23, 2008 (aged 87) |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Education | University of Guelph (undergraduate degree, 1944), Dalhousie University (master's degree, 1946), University of Wisconsin, Madison (Ph.D., 1949) |
| Thesis | Studies on (I) vitamin and amino acid content of fish and meat products (II) molybdenum toxicity in the rat (III) bound pantothenic acid. (1949) |
| Doctoral students | Kary Mullis, Bo G. Malmström |
| Notable awards | 1958 Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Spouse | Juanita L'Esperance (1958-his death) |
| Children | One son |
John Brian "Joe" Neilands (September 11, 1921 – October 23, 2008) was a Canadian-born American biochemist and professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1951 until his retirement in 1993.
Neilands was born on September 11, 1921 in Glen Valley, British Columbia, to Thomas Abraham Neilands and Mary Rebecca Neilands (née Harpur), both of whom immigrated from Northern Ireland. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Guelph in 1944, his master's degree from Dalhousie University in 1946, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in biochemistry in 1949. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institutet's Medical Nobel Institute in , Sweden.
Neilands joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 as an assistant professor, where he remained until he retired in 1993. In 1958, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow; during his fellowship, he studied in London, Copenhagen, and Vienna. In 1974, he was named an honorary professor at the University of San Marcos in Peru. One of his doctoral students was Kary Mullis, who received a Ph.D. under his supervision in 1973 and won a Nobel Prize in 1993. In his memoir
Neilands' main area of research was microbial iron transport. His early research (from 1950 to 1952) focused on enzymes, including the isolation of from different sources, and on identifying its properties. In 1957, he was the first to note that ferrichrome could act as an iron transport agent.
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