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Martin C. J. Maiden

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Martin C. J. Maiden
Born
Martin Christopher James Maiden
NationalityEnglish
EducationUniversity of Reading
Known forMultilocus sequence typing
AwardsFellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology
Thesis Arabinose-proton symport in escherichia coli  (1986)
Academic advisorsPeter Henderson[1]

Martin Christopher James Maiden[2] is an English microbiologist. He is Head of Department and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, where he is also a fellow of Hertford College.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2010, a Fellow of the Society of Biology in 2012,[1] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology, both in 2016.[3][4]

He is widely known as a developer of method of molecular typing of bacteria MLST.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Martin C.J. Maiden". The Maiden Lab. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ^ Clemence, Marianne Elizabeth Alexandra; Maiden, Martin Christopher James; Harrison, Odile Barbara (1 September 2018). "Characterization of capsule genes in non-pathogenic Neisseria species". Microbial Genomics. 4 (9). doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000208. ISSN 2057-5858. PMC 6202450. PMID 30074474.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Martin Maiden". Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Fellows Elected in 2016". American Academy of Microbiology. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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