Ottoline Leyser
DBE FRS | |
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Born | Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser 7 March 1965 England |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)[3] |
Known for | GARNet: Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network[4] |
Spouse |
Stephen John Day (m. 1986) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plant Developmental Biology[2] |
Institutions | |
Thesis | An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype (1990) |
Website | www |
Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser
Education
Leyser's birth was registered in
Research and career
Leyser's
For a time around 2019, Leyser chaired of the Centre for Science and Policy Management Committee at Cambridge.[13] In 2020 she was appointed the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, the body which directs government funding towards research and innovation.[14] She was elected Regius Professor of Botany at Cambridge in the same year.[15]
Awards and honours
Leyser was elected a
Leyser was appointed
Leyser was elected a foreign associate of the
Leyser was appointed
Personal life
Leyser is the daughter of the historians Henrietta Leyser and Karl Leyser.[3] She married Stephen John Day in 1986 and has one son and one daughter.[3] She has been a guest of Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific multiple times.[24][25] in 2023 she was a guest of Michael Berkeley on Private Passions.[26]
References
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- ^ "Great British bioscience pioneers – Professor Ottoline Leyser". BBSRC. Archived from the original on 16 June 2015.
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- ^ "Ottoline Leyser". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ a b "EC/2007/26: Ottoline Leyser Certificate of Election". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 10 July 2019.
- PMID 24493584.
- ^ "Management Committee". Centre for Science and Policy. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser to join UK Research and Innovation as new Chief Executive". UKRI. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Hlaba, K. L. (14 May 2020). "Professor Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS elected as Regius Professor of Botany". www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 7.
- ^ "Past Council Members". Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ Bioethics' official website Archived 1 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, nuffieldbioethics.org; accessed 1 January 2017.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Dr. Ottoline Leyser" (PDF). leopoldina.org. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ NTNU's list of honorary doctors, ntnu.edu; accessed 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Genetics Society Medal". Genetics Society. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N8.
- ^ Jukic, Igor. "Ottoline Leyser honoured with the 2017 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award". EMBO. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, The Life Scientific at 10: What does it take to be a scientist?". BBC. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Dame Ottolinne Leyser".