Ottoline Leyser

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Ottoline Leyser, 2016

Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser , DBE (born March 7, 1965 ) is a British botanist .

Life

Ottoline is the daughter of the British medievalists Henrietta and Karl Leyser . She successfully completed her bachelor's degree in genetics at Newnham College, an institute at the University of Cambridge , in 1986 . At the same point, she did her doctoral thesis in 1990 with An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype . She then did research in Cambridge, at Indiana University Bloomington and worked at the University of York from 1994 to 2010 . Since 2002 she has been an appointed professor of biology at the University of York. She is currently Professor and Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Her research focuses on plant hormones and physiological changes due to environmental influences during the growth process of plants. In 2007 she received the Rosalind Franklin Award , endowed with £ 30,000, for her work . She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Royal Society , the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics . In 2009 she became Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 2014 she was elected to the Leopoldina . In 2017 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and received the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award awarded.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ottoline Leyser (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
  2. ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2
  3. ↑ Tilmann Kiessling: Ottoline Leyser honored with the 2017 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. EMBO, press release from September 1, 2017 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on January 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Leyser, Ottoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leyser, Henrietta Miriam Ottoline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1965