Biography

George Banting (Chairman of Editorial Board, Biochemical Journal) was awarded his PhD in 1987 by the Council for National Academic Awards for work in the field of somatic cell genetics, undertaken at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London , under the supervision of Dr Peter Goodfellow. He then moved, with a Royal Society fellowship and subsequently a European Molecular Biology Organization fellowship, to work with Dr Keith Stanley in the Cell Biology Programme at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany . 

In 1989 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Biochemistry Department of the University of Bristol . He was then promoted to a Readership in 1994 and awarded a Personal Chair in 2001.He is currently Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and is a member of the MRC Synaptic Plasticity Centre. His research is focused on the study of membrane traffic pathways within mammalian cells, particularly the molecular interactions that govern traffic in the latter stages of the secretory pathway and different endocytic pathways.

George Banting has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Biochemical Journal since 1995 and a member of various committees of the Biochemical Society since 1993. He is also a member of the Board of Portland Press Ltd. He is currently Chairman of the Basic Science Interviewing Committee of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the Wellcome Trust’s 'Molecules, Genes and Cells' Strategy Committee.

Peter Shepherd (Chairman-elect of Editorial Board, Biochemical Journal) received his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry at Massey University in New Zealand in 1983, and his PhD from the same university in 1989. He then moved to the USA to carry out postdoctoral research in Professor Barbara Kahn's laboratory at Harvard Medical School working on the mechanisms involved in insulin-stimulated glucose transport. In 1992, he moved to a fellowship at Cambridge University where he worked on understanding the role of phosphoinositide 3-kinase in insulin signalling. In 1996, he was appointed to a lectureship at University College London, where he continued his studies of insulin signalling pathways. He was awarded a personal chair at UCL in 2003 and in 2004 was appointed Professor of Cellular Signalling at the University of Auckland . His current research focuses on the signal transduction pathways mediated by lipid kinases and also on how metabolites such as glucose impact on these signalling pathways.

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