Liam Dolan

Liam Dolan

Liam Dolan portrait via the Royal Society
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (1991)
Doctoral advisor R. Scott Poethig[1]
Notable awards

Website

Liam Dolan, FRS[2] is a botanist and academic. He is the Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4][5]

Education

Dolan was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for genetic analysis of leaf development in the cotton plant Gossypium barbadense supervised by Scott Poethig.[1]

Career

Following his PhD, Dolan spent three years doing postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. After 13 years as an independent project leader in Norwich, Dolan moved to Oxford as the Sherardian Professor of Botany in 2009.

Research

Dolan's research aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonized the land 500 million years ago.[6][7][8][9][10] Dolan's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[11]

Awards and honours

Dolan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

“ Liam Dolan has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the development and evolution of land plant rooting systems. He was the first to define the precise cellular body plan of the Arabidopsis root and discovered the molecular genetic mechanism governing root hair cell differentiation. He demonstrated that this mechanism is ancient and was the first to discover the mechanism that controlled the development of the earliest land plant rooting systems that caused dramatic climate change over 400 million years ago. These pivotal discoveries illuminate our understanding of the interrelationships between the development of plants, their evolution and the Earth System.[2] ”

Dolan was also elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and awarded the Presidents Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Liam, Dolan (1991). A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Professor Liam Dolan FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-19.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ Liam Dolan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  6. ↑ Foreman, J.; Demidchik, V.; Bothwell, J. H. F.; Mylona, P.; Miedema, H.; Torres, M. A.; Linstead, P.; Costa, S.; Brownlee, C.; Jones, J. D. G.; Davies, J. M.; Dolan, L. (2003). "Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth". Nature 422 (6930): 442–446. doi:10.1038/nature01485. PMID 12660786.
  7. ↑ Dolan, L; Janmaat, K; Willemsen, V; Linstead, P; Poethig, S; Roberts, K; Scheres, B (1993). "Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root". Development (Cambridge, England) 119 (1): 71–84. PMID 8275865.
  8. ↑ Tanimoto, M.; Roberts, K.; Dolan, L. (1995). "Ethylene is a positive regulator of root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana". The Plant Journal 8 (6): 943. doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.1995.8060943.x. PMID 8580964.
  9. ↑ Gapper, C; Dolan, L (2006). "Control of plant development by reactive oxygen species". Plant Physiology 141 (2): 341–5. doi:10.1104/pp.106.079079. PMC 1475470. PMID 16760485.
  10. ↑ Dolan, L; Poethig, R (1998). "Clonal analysis of leaf development in cotton". American journal of botany 85 (3): 315. PMID 21684913.
  11. ↑ UK Government research grants awarded to Lian Dolan, Research Councils UK