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Liam Dolan
FRS
Liam Dolan at the Royal Society admissions day in London, 2014
Alma mater
Awards
EMBO Member (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsCellular development
Plant evolution
Institutions
ThesisA genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (1991)
Doctoral advisorR. Scott Poethig[1]
Websitewww.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research/research-groups/liam-dolan

Liam Dolan FRS[2] is a Senior Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,[3] the Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4][5][6]

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 and research

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.

Dolan's research[7] aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonised the land 500 million years ago.[8][9][10][11][12] Dolan's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[13]

Dolan has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the development and evolution of land plant rooting systems.[2][14][15] 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.[2] 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.[2] These pivotal discoveries illuminate our understanding of the interrelationships between the development of plants, their evolution and the Earth System.[2]

With Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[16]

Awards and honours

Dolan was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[2] Dolan was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2009,[17] and was awarded the President's Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001.[18]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2014). "Professor Liam Dolan FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. ^ "Research Groups". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  4. ^ Liam Dolan publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. PMID 25798897. Open access icon
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  7. ^ Liam Dolan publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  9. PMID 8275865
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  11. PMID 16760485
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  12. PMID 21684913
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  13. ^ "UK Government research grants awarded to Lian Dolan". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015.
  14. PMID 27494519
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  15. PMID 30135586
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  16. ISBN 978-0815340256
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  17. ^ "Professor Liam Dolan Elected to the Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization | Magdalen College Oxford". www.magd.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  18. ^ "Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2014.

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