Sir David Baulcombe, Ph.D. FMedSci FRS

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCES

Sir David Baulcombe is a highly accomplished researcher in plant biology, credited with the discovery and characterisation of an RNA silencing system that protects plants against viruses. His current focus is epigenetics, the science of how nurture influences nature and how environmental effects can be transmitted from one generation to the next.