About Jeff Ellis
Born 1953. Jeff Ellis is an Australian geneticist.
Jeffrey Graham (Jeff) Ellis (born 4 May 1953 in Adelaide) is an Australian plant scientist, and Program Leader at CSIRO Plant Industry.
Life He earned a BAgSc in 1976, and a PhD in 1981, from the University of Adelaide. In 1984, as a Research Scientist in CSIRO Plant Industry, he worked on the identification of transcriptional control elements in the promoters of the maize alcohol dehydrogenase gene and the Agrobacterium T-DNA gene octopine synthase. Ellis and his research team were among the first to clone and characterize plant disease resistance genes.
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Jeff Ellis was born on 4 May 1953.
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