Publishing Management
Mark Patterson
Director of Publishing
Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1982, Mark Patterson obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in the laboratory of John Rosamond, where he worked on yeast cell cycle genetics. Mark then moved into human genetics and carried out post-doctoral research in the laboratories of Kay Davies (Oxford University) and Gilbert Chu (Stanford University). In 1994, after four years as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he studied the genetics of human sexual differentiation, Mark made the move into scientific publishing as the editor of Trends in Genetics. In 1999, he was appointed as the biology reviews editor at Nature and was subsequently involved in the launch of the Nature Reviews Journals as the editor of Nature Reviews Genetics. Before joining the Public Library of Science, Mark worked as the publisher for the Company of Biologists.
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