Michael W. Bevan

Mike Bevan
Born	Michael Webster Bevan (1952-06-05) 5 June 1952 (age 64)
Fields	Genetics Genomics Plant breeding Plant Sciences Molecular biology
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis AFRC Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge John Innes Centre
Alma mater	University of Auckland (BSc, MSc) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis	Differentiation in plant tissue cultures (1979)
Notable awards	FRS (2013) Rank Prize (1986)
Website www.jic.ac.uk/staff/michael-bevan www.jic.ac.uk/profile/michael-bevan.asp

Michael Webster Bevan FRS (born 5 June 1952) is a Professor at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

Bevan was educated at the University of Auckland where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1973 and a Master of Science in 1974. He went on to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for work on differentiation in plant tissue cultures.

Following his PhD, Bevan did postdoctoral research with Mary-Dell Chilton at Washington University in St. Louis where he identified ways to make functional chimaeric genes based on knowledge of gene function.

Bevan returned to the UK at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge in 1980, part of the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC). This became the John Innes Centre of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) where he has worked since 1988.

As of 2014, Bevan's laboratory focus on the molecular control of plant growth.

Bevan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. His nomination reads:

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