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Giles Oldroyd
FRS
Born
Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of East Anglia
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlant symbioses[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Stanford University
ThesisIdentification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato (1998)
Notable studentsYiliang Ding
Websitewww.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/giles-oldroyd

Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd FRS is a professor at the University of Cambridge,[1][2] working on beneficial Legume symbioses in Medicago truncatula.[3] He has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award winner and the Society of Biology (SEB) President's Medal winner.[4] From 2014 Giles has been in the top 1% of highly cited plant scientists across the world.[5]

Education

Giles attended Huntington School, York before studying for his Honours degree in Biology at the

tomatoes.[7]

Career and research

After his PhD, he moved to

postdoctoral scientist studying legume/rhizobial interactions in the laboratory of Sharon R. Long.[8][9][10] In 2002, Giles moved to the John Innes Centre
to start his own research group and in 2017 he moved his research group to the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. In 2020 Giles was appointed to the Russel R Geiger Professorship of Crop Science in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the new Crop Science Centre, a partnership between the University of Cambridge and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.

Giles Oldroyd's work focuses on understanding the signalling mechanisms that allow the associations with these beneficial micro-organisms and the use of this information to transfer the nitrogen-fixing capability from legumes to cereal crops. His website says "Our work has implications for global agriculture, but we are most interested in the application of our work to benefit small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa".

In 2012 Giles Oldroyd was awarded a $10m research grant from the

fertilisers.[11][12] The Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project received a further $35 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations in 2023.[13]

As of March 2023, he has an h-index of 81 according to Google Scholar.[1]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ a b c Giles Oldroyd publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Professor Giles Oldroyd". Sainsbury Laboratory.
  3. PMID 18444906
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  4. ^ a b "PRESIDENT'S MEDALLISTS" (PDF). Society for Experimental Biology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Giles Oldroyd's Publons profile". Publons. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Giles Oldroyd | Faculty Member". Faculty Opinions.
  7. OCLC 42329477
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  8. PMID 11078514
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  9. ^ "Giles Oldroyd profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  10. ^ "Passion drives the best and brightest in biology". THE - Times Higher Education. 14 July 2006.
  11. ^ "GM crop scientists win $10m grant". BBC News. 15 July 2012.
  12. ^ "ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture".
  13. ^ "Cambridge-led consortium receives $35m to boost crop production sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa".
  14. ^ "Giles Oldroyd". The Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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