Ottoline Leyser

Dame Ottoline Leyser
DBE FRS
Born Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser
(1965-03-07) 7 March 1965
Citizenship United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)[1]
Known for GARNet: Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network[2]
Spouse(s)
Stephen John Day (m. 1986)
[1]
Children Two[1]
Awards Rosalind Franklin Award (2007)
EMBO Member (2007)
Scientific career
Fields Plant Developmental Biology[3]
Institutions
Thesis An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype (1990)
Website

Dame (Henrietta Miriam) Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS (born 7 March 1965[1]) is a British plant biologist and Professor of Plant Development at the University of Cambridge and director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Education

Leyser was educated at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student of Newnham College, Cambridge where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in Genetics[12] in 1990 from the same University for research supervised by Ian Furner.[13]

Research and career

Leyser's research interests are in the genetics of plant development and the interaction of plant hormones with the environment. Her former doctoral students include Joanna Hepworth,[14] Gilu George,[15] Philip Garnett,[16] and Danielle Taylor.[17]

Awards and honours

Leyser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. Her nomination reads:

Leyser was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2007, and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[19] She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2009 to 2015[20] and a member of the Council’s Working Party on Biofuels (2009-2011).[21]

She was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2012.[22] She has been a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2014.[23]

In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[24]

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to plant science, science in society, and equality and diversity in science.[25]

Personal life

Leyser is the daughter of the historians Henrietta Leyser and Karl Leyser.[1] She married Stephen John Day in 1986 and has one son and one daughter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anon (2015). LEYSER, Prof. (Henrietta Miriam) Ottoline. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.245819. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Beale, M; Dupree, P; Lilley, K; Beynon, J; Trick, M; Clarke, J; Bevan, M; Bancroft, I; Jones, J; May, S; Van De Sande, K; Leyser, O (2002). "GARNet, the Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network". Trends in Plant Science. 7 (4): 145–7. doi:10.1016/s1360-1385(01)02224-5. PMID 11950604.
  3. 1 2 Ottoline Leyser publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ↑ Ottoline Leyser publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ "BBSRC spotlight interview".
  6. ↑ Leyser, O. (2011). "An interview with Ottoline Leyser. Interviewed by Eva Amsen". Development. 138 (22): 4815–17. doi:10.1242/dev.075333. PMID 22028022.
  7. ↑ Leyser, O. (2012). "Ottoline Leyser". Current Biology. 22 (8): R253–55. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.003. PMID 22675728.
  8. ↑ Sedwick, C. (2014). "Ottoline Leyser: The beauty of plant genetics". The Journal of Cell Biology. 204 (3): 284–85. doi:10.1083/jcb.2043pi. PMC 3912528. PMID 24493584.
  9. ↑ Kepinski, S.; Leyser, O. (2005). "The Arabidopsis F-box protein TIR1 is an auxin receptor". Nature. 435 (7041): 446–51. doi:10.1038/nature03542.
  10. ↑ Gray, W.M.; Kepinski, S.; Rouse, D.; Leyser, O.; Estelle, M. (2001). "Auxin regulates SCFTIR1-dependent degradation of AUX/IAA proteins". Nature. 414 (6861): 271–76. doi:10.1038/35104500. PMID 11713520.
  11. ↑ Sabatini, S.; Beis, D.; Wolkenfelt, H.; Murfett, J.; Guilfoyle, T.; Malamy, J.; Benfey, P.; Leyser, O.; Bechtold, N.; Weisbeek, P.; Scheres, B. (1999). "An auxin-dependent distal organizer of pattern and polarity in the Arabidopsis root". Cell. 99 (5): 463–72. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81535-4. PMID 10589675.
  12. ↑ Leyser, Henrietta Miriam Ottoline (1990). An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557279110. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.357803.
  13. ↑ "Great British bioscience pioneers – Professor Ottoline Leyser". BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2015-06-16.
  14. ↑ Hepworth, Joanna Alex (2012). Comparative analysis of the MAX pathway. whiterose.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of York. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.557209.
  15. ↑ George, Gilu (2012). Genotype by environment interaction in shoot branching. whiterose.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of York. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.559116.
  16. ↑ Garnett, Philip (2010). Agent based modelling of auxin transport canalisation. whiterose.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of York. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.535019.
  17. ↑ Taylor, Danielle J. (2013). Characterisation of the MAD and 17-4 branching regulators of Arabidopsis. whiterose.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of York. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.680600.
  18. ↑ "EC/2007/26: Ottoline Leyser Certificate of Election". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-06-16.
  19. ↑ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 7.
  20. ↑ "Past Council Members". Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  21. ↑ Bioethics' official website, nuffieldbioethics.org; accessed 1 January 2017.
  22. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. 1 May 2012.
  23. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ottoline Leyser" (PDF). leopoldina.org.
  24. ↑ NTNU's list of honorary doctors
  25. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N8.
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