Stephen P. Long
Stephen Long | |
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Born | Stephen Patrick Long 13 August 1950 London, England |
Other names | Steve Long |
Citizenship | United States |
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Spouse | Ann Long[citation needed] |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) |
Scientific career | |
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Thesis | C4 photosynthesis in cool temperate climates, with reference to Spartina townsendii (S.L.) in Britain (1976) |
Doctoral students | Lisa Ainsworth |
Website | http://lab.igb.illinois.edu/ |
Stephen Patrick Long (born 13 August 1950)
Early life and education
Long was born and raised in London, England. His high school biology teacher inspired him to study plants—and famines in the 1960s encouraged him to find avenues to increase agricultural productivity.[10] Long earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural botany from Reading University in 1972 and went on to earn a doctorate in plant environmental physiology from Leeds University in 1976. In 2007, Lancaster University honored Long's environmental research contributions with a doctorate of environmental science honoris causa.[11]
Career and research
Long joined the faculty as a lecturer at the
In 2012, Long stepped down from leading the EBI to direct Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE),[12] a $25-million-dollar research project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engineer plants to photosynthesize more efficiently in order to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity. In 2017, the RIPE project received a $45 million reinvestment from the Gates Foundation, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the UK Department for International Development.[13] Long has also served as the director of two ARPA-E-funded projects: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS), 2013–2018[14] and Transportation Energy Resource from Renewable Agriculture – Mobile Energy-Crop Phenotyping Platform (TERRA-MEPP), 2015–2019.[15] He has also served as the deputy director of a third ARPA-E-funded project, Water Efficient Sorghum Technologies (WEST), 2016–2019.[16] In 2013, he was "selected from the faculty on the basis of their outstanding scholarship" and appointed as a Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Professor at Illinois.[17] In 2014, he joined the faculty of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, an interdisciplinary life sciences research institute at Illinois. In 2016, he became the Distinguished Professor in Crop Sciences FRS at Lancaster University. From 2017 to 2018, he served as the Newton Abraham Visiting Professor of Oxford University.[18] In 2018, he was amongst four Illinois faculty members selected for an Ikenberry Endowed Chair that is "deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on the campus".[19] In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[20]
In addition, Long is the founding and chief editor of Global Change Biology.[21] He also founded GCB Bioenergy,[22] the most highly cited bioenergy journal and second most highly cited agronomy journal. In 2018, he launched a new journal in silico Plants (isP) through the Oxford University Press that will publish cross-disciplinary research at the interface between plant biology, mathematics and computer science.[23]
He is a member of the Editorial Board for
Long is the author of more than 400 scientific publications, including more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nature[25] and Science.[26][27][28] Of particular note, he discovered the most productive land plant known[29] Echinochloa polystachya) and identified Miscanthus as a productive temperate plant, transforming it into a viable bioenergy crop in Europe and North America.[30] He also developed the "first dynamic model of the complete photosynthetic process."[31] Recent work by Long has centered on how to engineer plants to photosynthesize more efficiently to increase yields of food and bioenergy crops. Long was instrumental in the development of SoyFACE, the largest open-air laboratory in the word to evaluate the impact of future climatic conditions on crops.[32] In 2016, he proved that yield could be increased by computer-designed engineering; the results were published in Science,[33] covered by the New York Times,[34] and named one of the top scientific moments of 2016 by the Guardian.[35] Recently, Long led the team that engineered a crop that needs 25 percent less water—without compromising yield—by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.[36][37]
Awards and honors
In 1972, Long received the University of Prize from the
References
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- ^ "Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences NEWTON ABRAHAM VISITING PROFESSORSHIP". ox.ac.uk/. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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- ^ "Research shows how to grow more cassava, one of the world's key food crops". theconversation.com. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Steve Long". igb.illinois.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "Campus Insights: Steve Long". YouTube. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Stephen P. Long CV" (PDF). lab.igb.illinois.edu. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "RIPE". ripe.illinois.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "FFAR joins $45M project to boost crop yields through photosynthesis". agri-pulse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "PETROSS". petross.illinois.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "TERRAMEPP". terra-mepp.illinois.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "WEST". west.illinois.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ "CAS Professors | CAS". cas.illinois.edu. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor". plants.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Faculty members selected for distinguished chairs". news.illinois.edu. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "2019 NAS Election". nasonline.org. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
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- ^ "in silico Plants (isP) launches – a computational plant science journal". botany.one. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Editorial Board". www.pnas.org. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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- ^ "SoyFACE". oyface.illinois.edu. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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- ^ Gillis, Justin (17 November 2016). "With an Eye on Hunger, Scientists See Promise in Genetic Tinkering of Plants". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ Sella, Andrea; Scott, Sophie; Czerski, Helen; Miodownik, Mark; Rutherford, Adam; Rees, Martin; Fong, Kevin; Hartley, Sue; Mace, Georgina; Bell, Vaughan; Piot, Peter; Edwards, Tamsin (18 December 2016). "The 12 key science moments of 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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- ^ Win, Thin Lei. "Rebooting food: Finding new ways to feed the future". U.S. Retrieved 13 August 2018.