# Keith Chater

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British microbiologist

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**Keith Frederick Chater** [FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society)[1] (born 23 April 1944) is a British [microbiologist](/source/Microbiologist), formerly head of the departments of Genetics and [Molecular Microbiology](/source/Molecular_biology) at the [John Innes Centre](/source/John_Innes_Centre). He has held honorary professorships at the [University of East Anglia](/source/University_of_East_Anglia), [Huazhong Agricultural University](/source/Huazhong_Agricultural_University), and the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](/source/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences) Institute of Microbiology.

## Career

Chater studied for a PhD at the [University of Birmingham](/source/University_of_Birmingham) working on the genetics of methionine biosynthesis in *[Salmonella](/source/Salmonella)*.

## Career and research

He joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with [David Hopwood](/source/David_Hopwood). His group studied the complex life cycle of *[Streptomyces](/source/Streptomyces)*, and developed *[bacteriophage](/source/Bacteriophage)* ɸC31 - based cloning vectors used to isolate *Streptomyces* genes. He was also involved in [comparative genomics](/source/Comparative_genomics) of *Streptomyces*.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-royalsociety.org_1-0)** ["Professor Keith Chater FRS"](https://royalsociety.org/people/keith-chater-11212/). *[Royal Society](/source/Royal_Society)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20241112171757/https://royalsociety.org/people/keith-chater-11212/) from the original on 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2025.

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1995 Fellows Martin A. Bennett Iain Campbell Johnson Cann Keith Chater Ed Corrigan E. Brian Davies Graham Dixon-Lewis Richard Ellis Graham Farquhar Jeffrey Harborne Julia Higgins Jonathan Charles Howard Antony Jameson Jack Henri Kaplan Gurdev Khush Anthony Ledwith Frank Matthews Leslie Robin Marshall Christopher John Marshall Paul Mason David Miller Richard Alan North Tim Pedley Geoffrey James Pert Keith Peters Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps Richard J. Roberts Joseph Rotblat Jeremy Sanders Robert Malcolm Simmons Ian William Murison Smith Peter Sneath Laszlo Solymar Roger Tayler Richard Taylor Shirley M. Tilghman John E. Walker Stephen C. West Colin Windsor Andrew Wyllie Foreign Ugo Fano Gertrude B. Elion Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch Rita Levi-Montalcini Calvin Quate John Archibald Wheeler

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