Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie
Born (1931-12-05) 5 December 1931
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor, plant scientist
Known forion fluxes and stomata

Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie, FRS FRSE (born 5 December 1931) is a Scottish plant scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Plant Biophysics at the University of Cambridge[1] and a Life Fellow of Girton College.[2] Her specialty is biophysics, with particular interests in ion fluxes and stomata.[3]

Born on 5 December 1931, in Edinburgh,[3] MacRobbie was appointed "to a Personal Professorship in 1987, the first woman scientist in Cambridge to be awarded a Personal Chair."[3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1991 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998.[3] She is also a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists.[3] Roger Spanswick was a member of her laboratory.

Selected works

  • MacRobbie, E.A.C. (2000) "ABA activates multiple Ca2+ fluxes in stomatal guard cells, triggering vacuolar K+ (Rb+) release." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 12361-12368.
  • MacRobbie, E.A.C. (2002) "Evidence for a role for protein tyrosine phosphatase in the control of ion release from the guard cell vacuole in stomatal closure." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99: 11563-11568.

References

  1. ↑ "University of Cambridge Academic: Jim Haseloff / Julian Hibberd / Roger Leigh / Enid MacRobbie". plant-biology.com.
  2. ↑ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-enid-macrobbie
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Women Pioneers in Plant Biology / Biographies: Enid MacRobbie". American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 3 December 2003.


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