Peter Waterhouse (scientist)
Peter Michael Waterhouse is a British-Australian plant virologist and geneticist. He is a professor at the Queensland University of Technology.Biography
Peter Waterhouse received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Scottish Crop Research Institute at the University of Dundee. He joined CSIRO Plant Industry as a Research Scientist in 1981 and was the leader of the virology program from 1989 to 1999. In 2008, he was awarded the Federation Fellowship and took up a professorship in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. Following the conclusion of this fellowship, Waterhouse left the University of Sydney and took up a professorial appointment at the Queensland University of Technology in 2014.
In the late 1990s, Waterhouse led the CSIRO group which discovered that gene silencing and transgene-mediated virus resistance in plants were induced and targeted by double-stranded RNAs.Awards
