Mervyn Bibb

Mervyn James Bibb is an Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

Education
Bibb was educated at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences and was awarded a PhD in 1978 for studies of plasmids in Streptomyces coelicolor.

Research
Bibb's research focused on


 * The regulation of secondary metabolism (antibiotic production) in streptomycetes
 * Functional genomics in Streptomyces, particularly transcriptome and proteome analysis
 * Lantibiotics from actinomycetes

Awards and honours
Bibb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads: