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Sir Michael John Berridge, FRS FMedSci FBPhS (born 22 October 1938) is a Rhodesian-born British physiologist and biochemist. He is best known for his work on cellular transmembrane signalling, in particular the discovery that inositol trisphosphate acts as a second messenger, linking events at the plasma membrane with the release of Ca2+ within the cell.〔(Lagnado J. New honorary members for the Biochemical Society. ''The Biochemist'' (December 2004) ) (accessed 7 January 2009)〕 As of 2009, he is the Emeritus Babraham Fellow in the Signalling Programme Department of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, and honorary professor of cell signalling at the University of Cambridge.〔(Babraham Institute: Michael Berridge - Emeritus Babraham Fellow ) (accessed 6 January 2009)〕 ==Education and career== Born in Gatooma in Southern Rhodesia, Berridge gained a BSc in zoology and chemistry at the University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury (1960), where his interest in insect physiology was stimulated by Eina Bursell. He came to the UK to study with insect physiologist Sir Vincent Wigglesworth at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, gaining his PhD on the topic of nitrogen excretion in the African cotton stainer (''Dysdercus fasciatus'') in 1965.〔〔 Berridge moved to the USA for his early postdoctoral positions, which were in the Department of Biology of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, with Dietrich Bodenstein (1965–6); in the Developmental Biology Center of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, with Michael Locke (1966–7); and in the Department of Biology of Case Western Reserve University with Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen (1967–9).〔〔 He returned to Cambridge in 1969 to become senior and later principal scientific officer of the Agricultural and Food Research Council Unit of Invertebrate Chemistry and Physiology at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge. He served as senior principal scientific officer of the Unit of Insect Neurophysiology and Pharmacology from 1978 until 1990.〔 He then joined the Laboratory of Molecular Signalling of the Babraham Institute as deputy chief scientist, becoming head of that laboratory in 1994, a position he held until his retirement in 2004, when he was appointed the first Emeritus Babraham Fellow.〔 In 1994, he was appointed honorary professor of cell signalling at the University of Cambridge.〔 He is a fellow of Trinity College.〔(Trinity College, Cambridge: The Fellowship ) (accessed 7 January 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Berridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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