John Sulston

Sir John Sulston
John Sulston portrait from the Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Born	John Edward Sulston (1942-03-27) 27 March 1942 (age 74) Cambridge, England
Citizenship	Britain
Nationality	English
Fields	Chemistry Molecular biology
Institutions	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute University of Cambridge Salk Institute Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Manchester
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Thesis	Aspects of oligoribonucleotide synthesis (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Colin Reese
Known for	Genome sequencing of Caenorhabditis elegans and humans Sulston score Apoptosis
Influences	Ian Fleming Leslie Orgel
Notable awards	FRS (1986) W. Alden Spencer Award (1986) EMBO Membership (1989) Darwin Medal (1996) Beadle Award (2000) Knight Bachelor (2001) Edinburgh Medal (2001) Nobel prize (2002) Gairdner Award (2002)
Spouse	Daphne Edith Bate (m. 1966)
Children	1 son, 1 daughter
Website sanger.ac.uk/people/faculty/honorary-faculty/john-sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston FRS (born 27 March 1942) is a British biologist. For his work on the cell lineage and genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, he was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. As of 2014^[update] he is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.

Sulston was born in Cambridge to parents The Reverend Canon Arthur Edward Aubrey Sulston and Josephine Muriel Frearson (née Blocksidge). His father was an Anglican priest and administrator of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. An English teacher at Watford Grammar School, his mother quit her job to care for him and his sister Madeleine. His mother home-tutored them until he was five. At age five he entered the local preparatory school (York House School, Redheath) where he soon developed aversion to games. He instead developed an early interest in science, having fun with dissecting animals and sectioning plants to observe their structure and function. Sulston won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and then to Pembroke College, Cambridge graduating in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry). He joined the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, after being interviewed by Alexander Todd and was awarded his PhD in 1966 for research in nucleotide chemistry.