R. Michael Roberts
American biologist
R. Michael Roberts (born October 23, 1940, in Menston, United Kingdom) is an American biologist who is the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Animal sciences and Biochemistry at the University of Missouri. He is a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, first published in 2013.
Birth and education
R. Michael Roberts was born on October 23, 1940, in Menston, in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a BA in Botany and PhD in Plant Physiology/Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. His DPhil thesis was entitled The utilisation of ¹⁴C labelled substrates by growing plant organs (1965) and was supervised by Vernon S. Butt.
Academic career
In September 1965 Roberts went to the United States to do post-doctoral work with Frank Loewus at State University of New York-Buffalo (SUNY). Roberts was a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Florida from 1970-1985.
In 1985, Roberts joined the University of Missouri. He served as Chair of the Veterinary Pathobiology Department the University of Missouri from 1995 to 1998. He was named the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences, Biochemistry, and Veterinary Pathobiology as of 1996 and was the Chancellor's Professor as of 2019.
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