Hugh Nimmo, the first postdoctoral fellow of Unit Director Philip Cohen, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Hugh worked in Philip's laboratory from 1973 to 1976 on a grant funded by the British Diabetic Association (now called Diabetes UK). During this period he discovered that the enzyme glycogen synthase was phosphorylated at more than one site by more than one protein kinase, the first example of such "multisite phosphorylation." He then set up his own laboratory at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he has worked ever since, later being promoted to Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry. Hugh has made many important contributions to our understanding of the regulation of plant function by reversible phosphorylation. Most recently, he discovered how phosphorylation enables roots and shoots to operate distinct types of circadian clocks that are synchronized to allow plants to anticipate daily environmental changes. Hugh's wife Gill was also a postdoc in Philip Cohen's lab, while Carol MacKintosh, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, was a Ph.D. student in Hugh's laboratory before coming to Dundee. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, which is Scotland's National Academy of Sciences was founded in 1783 and is one of the world's oldest scientific academies.