Anthony Trewavas

Anthony Trewavas
Born	Anthony Trewavas (1939-06-17) 17 June 1939 London, England
Nationality	British
Fields	Plant Biology Plant Behaviour Plant Intelligence Plant Physiology
Institutions	University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh Michigan State University
Alma mater	University College London (BSc) University College London (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Eric Crook

Anthony J. Trewavas FRS FRSE is a Professor at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Edinburgh , best known for his research in the fields of plant physiology and molecular biology. His lifetime research has concerned what is now recognized as plant behaviour.

He was born in 1939 and his secondary school education was John Roans Grammar School, Blackheath, London which he left in 1958 with five A levels. He obtained both his degree and Ph.D in Biochemistry at University College London before performing post doctoral work at the newly constituted University of East Anglia. He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1970. In 1972 he was invited to be first Visiting Professor at the prestigious Plant Research laboratory in Michigan State University. At the time this was laboratory was regarded as the foremost laboratory dealing with plant research. He also after invitation spent periods of time as Visiting Professor at other Universities in the Americas and Europe usually providing up to 20 lectures. He is the author of some 250 scientific papers and three books both as editor and author. He was made Professor Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh in 2004.

Plant behavior is simply the response to signals. His main research contribution as the leader of the Edinburgh Molecular Signalling Group, has been in the role of calcium in signal transduction during plant development. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1993), the Royal Society of Arts (1995), the Royal Society of London (1999), the Centre for Future Studies (2001) Academia Europea in 2002 and received the "corresponding membership" award from the American Society of Plant Biologists in 1999, a prize given to one non-US biologist per year. He is named by the Institute for Scientific Information as in the most highly cited author group in the field of animal and plant Sciences. He is a past or present member of the editorial boards of the publications, Trends in Plant Science, Botanica Acta, Plant Physiology, What's New in Plant Physiology, Biochemical Journal "Molecular Plant", "Plant Signaling and Behaviour", Plant, Cell and Environment.