Liam Dolan

Liam Dolan

Liam Dolan in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (1991)
Doctoral advisor R. Scott Poethig[1]
Notable awards

Website

Liam Dolan, FRS[2] is a botanist and academic. He is the Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4][5][6][7]

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 aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonized 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 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[13]

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.[14]

Awards and honours

Dolan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[15] His certificate of election reads:

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

Dolan is also en elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and was awarded the Presidents Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Liam, Dolan (1991). A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  2. 1 2 3 "Professor Liam Dolan FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-19.
  3. 1 2 Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ Liam Dolan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Saint-Marcoux, D; Proust, H; Dolan, L; Langdale, J. A. (2015). "Identification of Reference Genes for Real-Time Quantitative PCR Experiments in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0118678. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118678. PMC 4370483Freely accessible. PMID 25798897.
  7. ↑ Takeda, S.; Gapper, C.; Kaya, H.; Bell, E.; Kuchitsu, K.; Dolan, L. (2008). "Local Positive Feedback Regulation Determines Cell Shape in Root Hair Cells". Science. 319 (5867): 1241–1244. doi:10.1126/science.1152505.
  8. ↑ Foreman, J.; Demidchik, V.; Bothwell, J. H. F.; Mylona, P.; Miedema, H.; Torres, M. A.; Linstead, P.; Costa, S.; Brownlee, C.; Jones, J. D. G.; Davies, J. M.; Dolan, L. (2003). "Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth". Nature. 422 (6930): 442–446. doi:10.1038/nature01485. PMID 12660786.
  9. ↑ Dolan, L; Janmaat, K; Willemsen, V; Linstead, P; Poethig, S; Roberts, K; Scheres, B (1993). "Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root". Development (Cambridge, England). 119 (1): 71–84. PMID 8275865.
  10. ↑ Tanimoto, M.; Roberts, K.; Dolan, L. (1995). "Ethylene is a positive regulator of root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana". The Plant Journal. 8 (6): 943–8. doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.1995.8060943.x. PMID 8580964.
  11. ↑ Gapper, C; Dolan, L (2006). "Control of plant development by reactive oxygen species". Plant Physiology. 141 (2): 341–5. doi:10.1104/pp.106.079079. PMC 1475470Freely accessible. PMID 16760485.
  12. ↑ Dolan, L; Poethig, R (1998). "Clonal analysis of leaf development in cotton". American journal of botany. 85 (3): 315. doi:10.2307/2446322. PMID 21684913.
  13. ↑ "UK Government research grants awarded to Lian Dolan". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2015-05-17.
  14. ↑ Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 0815340257.
  15. ↑ "Professor Liam Dolan FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. 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". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
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