Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, and John Innes Foundation Emeritus Fellow, at John Innes Centre.[1] He is a member of Faculty of 1000.[2] He is honorary professor at University of East Anglia.[3][4]
Chater studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham working on transduction in Salmonella.[citation needed][when?]
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.[5]