title: Keith Chater
text: # Keith Chater
  
  Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, and John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow, at John Innes Centre. He is a member of Faculty of 1000. He is honorary professor at University of East Anglia.
  
  ## Career
  
  Chater studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham working on transduction in Salmonella.
  
  ## Career and research
  
  He joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with David Hopwood. His group developed the ΦC31 bacteriophage into a series of cloning vectors that are used to isolate genes in Streptomyces.
  
  