Michael SinnottProfessor Michael J. Sinnott is a British citizen, yet is also a permanent resident of the United States. He graduated from the Honor School of Natural Science (Chemistry) Oxford University, UK in 1962. He remained there until 1966 when he moved to te University of Bristol, UK, where he carried out research work in the Department of Organic Chemistry under supervision of Professor M.C. Whiting. He was awarded aPh.D. by the University in 1969.Professor Sinnott took on postdoctoral research at Stanford University, California and the University of Bristol, before receiving the Tate and Lyle Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry for 1978 from the Chemical Society. He was promoted to a Readership in Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 1982, and was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989. He was awarded a University of Illinois Senior Scholarship in 1993. In 1996 he took a Chair in the Department of Paper Science, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.Professor Sinnott's current research interests are centered around the phenomenon of glycosyl transfer, using expertise with this type of reaction to address questions across a range of disciplines from mainstream physical organic chemistry, through enzymology to molecular evolution. Read More Read Less