# Education :

University of Sheffield, England B.Ss. 1965 Chemistry
University of Sheffield, England Ph.D. 1968 Organic Chemistry

Research and professional experience:
1969-1970 Research Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA .
1971-1972 Research Associate in Biochemistry, Harvard University, MA
1972-1986 senior Staff Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
1986-1992 Assistant Director for Research, Cold Spring Harbor, Lab NY.
1992-Present Research Director, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA .

OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES :
1987- Present Executive Editor : Nucleic Acids Research.
1996- Present Chairman, NCBI Board of Scientific Counsellors .
1998- Present Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Celera .
1998- Present Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, MultiGene Biotech.

Honors and awards:
1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
1995 Fellow of the Royal Society.
1997 Fellow of the American Academy of microbiology.

Publications (31 out of a total of 191):
# Roberts, R.J. (1997) Restriction Enzymes. In: Molecular Genetic Analysis of Populations, a Practical Approach 2/e. (Hoelzel, A.R., Ed.), Oxford University Press, 379-397.
# Roberts, R. J. and Macelis, D. (1997) Restriction enzymes and methylases. Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. (Smith, AD et al., Eds.) Oxford University Press. pp. 725-738.
# Roberts, R.J. and Cheng, X. (1998) Base Flipping. Annual Review of Biochemistry, 67: 181-198.
# Roberts, R.J. and Macelis, D. (1998) REBASE - Restriction enzymes and methylases. Nucl. Acids Res. 26: 338-350.
# O'Gara, M., Horton, JR, Roberts, RJ, Cheng, X. (1998) Structures of HhaI methyltransferase complexed with substrates containing mismatches at the target base. Nature Struct. Biol. 5: 872-877
# Roberts, R.J. and Macelis, D. (1999) REBASE - Restriction enzymes and methylases. Nucl. Acids Res. 27: 312-313.
# O'Gara, M., Zhang, X., Roberts, R.J., Cheng, X. (1999) Structure of a binary complex of HhaI methyltransferase with S-adenosyl-L-methionine formed in the presence of a short nonspecific DNA oligonucleotide. J. Mol. Biol. 287: 201-209.