George Banting - Chair of the Editorial Board

George Banting is currently Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the Biochemistry Department of the University of Bristol and is a member of the MRC Synaptic Plasticity Centre in Bristol. The research work in his laboratory is focused on the study of membrane traffic pathways within mammalian cells, particularly the molecular interactions that govern traffic in the latter stages of the secretory pathway and different endocytic pathways.

He was awarded his PhD in 1987 by the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) for work, in the field of somatic cell genetics, that was undertaken at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, under the supervision of Dr Peter Goodfellow. He then moved, with a Royal Society fellowship and subsequently a European Molecular Biology Organization fellowship, to work with Dr Keith Stanley in the Cell Biology Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.

In 1989 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Biochemistry Department of the University of Bristol. He was then promoted to a Readership in 1994 and awarded a Personal Chair in 2001.

George Banting is a member of the Biochemical Society, the British Society for Cell Biology and the American Society for Cell Biology. He has been a member of the Membrane Group Committee of the Biochemical Society (1993 to 1999), Chairman of the Membrane Group Committee of the Biochemical Society (1997 to 1999), a member of the Editorial Committee of the Biochemical Journal (1995 to 1998 and currently), a member of the Biochemical Society Council (1997 to 1999 and 2004 to present), a member of the Biochemical Society Executive Committee 2004 to present), a member of the Working Group on Scientific Coverage of Interest Groups within the Biochemical Society (2000 to 2002) and a member of the Board of Portland Press Ltd (2004 to present). He is currently Chairman of the Basic Science Interviewing Committee of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the Wellcome Trust 'Molecules, Genes and Cells' Strategy Committee.

He is married and has two sons (aged 23 and 15) and a daughter (aged 18).