Sarah Otto

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Sally Otto
FRS FRSC
Born
Sarah Perin Otto

(1967-10-23) October 23, 1967 (age 56)
Other namesSally Otto
Alma materStanford University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEvolution[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
University of Edinburgh
ThesisEvolution in sexual organisms: the role of recombination, ploidy level, and nonrandom mating (1992)
Doctoral advisorMarcus Feldman
Other academic advisorsNick Barton
Websitewww.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto Edit this at Wikidata

Sarah Perin Otto

Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia.[1][2] From 2008-2016, she was the director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia.[3] Otto was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.[4] In 2015 the American Society of Naturalists gave her the Sewall Wright Award for fundamental contributions to the unification of biology. In 2021, she was awarded the Darwin–Wallace Medal for contributing major advances to the mathematical theory of evolution.[5][6][7]

Education

Otto received her

PhD in 1992 from Stanford University.[8]

Research and career

She did

genomic changes that underlie adaptation by yeast to harsh environmental conditions.[12]

Science communication

Since 2013 Otto has been the director of the Liber Ero Fellowship

The European Society of Evolutionary Biology as well as a council member of The Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Genetic Association.[15]


Awards and honours


References

  1. ^ a b Sarah Otto publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "UBC Killam Professors". January 06, 2017. University of British Columbia. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Loren Rieseberg appointed director of UBC Biodiversity Research Centre". UBC Science. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  4. ^ "MacArthur Fellows Program: Meet the 2011 Fellows". September 20, 2011. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Sally Otto wins 2021 The Darwin-Wallace Medal". www.zoology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  6. ISBN 978-0-691-12344-8
  7. ^ Sarah Otto publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. OCLC 38714611
    .
  9. ^ "Sarah P. Otto". www.zoology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  10. ^ OTTO, SARAH P., and TROY DAY. A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution. Princeton University Press, 2007. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4hnd.
  11. ^ "Council of Canadian Academies | CCA | Fellow in Focus: Sarah P. Otto, FRSC". www.scienceadvice.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  12. ^ "Sarah Otto — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  13. ^ "Liber Ero Fellowship Program". Liber Ero Fellowship Program. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  14. ^ "CSEE – Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution". csee-scee.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  15. ^ "Advisory Board". Evidence For Democracy. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  16. ^ Anon (2024). "Professor Sarah Otto FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society.
  17. ^ 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Sarah "Sally" Otto (http://www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awards-and-prizes/lifetime-achievement-award.html)
  18. ^ "Sarah Otto (Natural Sciences) 2023 Killam Prize". www.killamlaureates.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  19. ^ "Sally Otto wins 2021 The Darwin-Wallace Medal". www.zoology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  20. ^ CSEE Bulletin no.22 pg 8 (http://csee-scee.ca/category/news/bulletins/)
  21. PMID 27277415
    . Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  22. ^ "Sarah Otto". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  23. ^ "Awards". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  24. ^ "Awards". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  25. ^ "Awards". www.amnat.org. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
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