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Mark C Field
Born	London, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Oxford Rockefeller University Stanford University
Occupation(s)	Professor of Cell Biology and Parasitology at UoD Research Scientist at Czech Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor at Rockefeller University
Known for	Parasitic Disease research particularly parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei
Awards	Wellcome Trust Award 2017 Fellow of the Society of Biology 2011 British Society for Parasitology C.A Wright Medal 2010
Website	http://fieldlab.org

Mark C Field

Personal Life and Education

Professor Mark C Field completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies in biochemistry at the University of Oxford [1]. His postdoctoral career was initially spent in Rockefeller University before he went on to Genentech Inc. and subsequently Stanford University [6]. He returned to England in 1994 where he established his own laboratory. Professor Field was appointed as a Visiting Professor at The Rockefeller University in 2013 and to the Institute of Parasitology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic in 2018. He currently resides in Central Edinburgh along with his partner, daughter, three tabbies and a music studio [6].

Research

Mark Field is Professor of Cell Biology and Parasitology at University of Dundee (UoD). He is actively involved in tresearch in parasitic diseases, with the major emphasis on the African Trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, but also extending into environmental organisms, such as the algae Euglena [2]. Field is currently affiliated to the Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery in UoD and the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) [3].

With awareness of the threat posed by parasitic disease and the challenges for controlling them, Field established his laboratory in 1994 in London. It was first based at Imperial College London from 1994 to 2004, before moving to the University of Cambridge between 2005 to 2013. Since 2013, it has been at the School of Life Sciences at UoD [2].

Field’s research objectives are the discovery, functional characterisation and validation of novel gene products, drug targets and chemical tools towards neglected diseases to provide

therapy, deep insights into protist cell biology and to understand eukaryotic evolution at the molecular level. His laboratory strives to achieve this through three major interrelated areas of interest:

1. Endocytotic systems of trypanosomes
2. Nuclear architecture and function in trypanosomes
3. Evolutionary biology, eukaryogenesis, eukaryotic microbial diversity

Field collaborates with molecular parasitologists, microbiologists, evolutionary biologists, immunologists and cell biologists, providing an excellent skills base and a lively, intellectual research atmosphere, directed towards the understanding of protists and the diseases they cause [2]. His active collaborations span across the globe including scientists in the UK, EU, Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia [6].

Publishing Statistics and Current Work [3,6]:

• Authored 200 research articles
• Citations: 11,500
• Publications: 30 years publication record
• H-factor: 61
• Abstracts: nearly 300
• Current Work: Molecular Parasitology, Intracellular Transport, Gene Expression and Eukaryotic Evolution
• Interest: Bioinformatics, graphic design, functional genomics and eukaryotic evolutionary biology

Awards and Achievements [2,3,6]:

• Wellcome Trust Investigator Award 2017
• Fellow of the Society of Biology 2011
• British Society for Parasitology C.A Wright Medal 2010
• Board Member of Wellcome Trust Expert Reading Group
• External Advisor for MiCoBion at BioCev, Charles University
• Fellow of the Linnean Society
• Member of Faculty of a Thousand
• Served on Medical Research Council Infection and Immunity Board and  Council of the British Society for Parasitology

Affiliation [3,5]:

• 2020 Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery
• 2020 Wellcome Centre for Anti -Infectives Research (WCAIR)
• 2013-2020 University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
• 2019-2020 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
• 2004-2014 University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
• 1995-1996 Stanford University , Palo Alto, California, United States
• 1989-1994 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• 1994 Genentech Incorporated , South San Francisco, California. United States
• 1991-1993 Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States

References

1. Mark C. Field (0000-0002-4866-2885) [Internet]. Orcid.org. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4866-2885
2. [Internet]. Fieldlab.org. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: http://fieldlab.org
3. Professor Mark Field FRSB [Internet]. School of Life Sciences. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: https://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/mark-field
4. Mark Field | Mendeley [Internet]. Mendeley.com. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/mark-field6/
5. Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Field, Mark C.) [Internet]. Scopus.com. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7201475745
6. [Internet]. Fieldlab.org. 2020 [cited 4 August 2020]. Available from: http://fieldlab.org/biog.html