Giles Oldroyd

Giles Oldroyd
Born
Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of East Anglia
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlant symbioses[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Stanford University
ThesisIdentification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato (1998)
Notable studentsYiliang Ding
Websitewww.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/giles-oldroyd

Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd FRS is a professor at the University of Cambridge,[1][2] working on beneficial Legume symbioses in Medicago truncatula.[3] He has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award winner and the Society of Biology (SEB) President's Medal winner.[4] From 2014 Oldroyd has been in the top 1% of highly cited plant scientists across the world.[5]

  1. ^ a b Giles Oldroyd publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Professor Giles Oldroyd". Sainsbury Laboratory.
  3. ^ Oldroyd, Giles .E.D.; Downie, J. Allan (2008). "Coordinating Nodule Morphogenesis with Rhizobial Infection in Legumes". Annual Review of Plant Biology. 59: 519–546. doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092839. PMID 18444906.
  4. ^ "PRESIDENT'S MEDALLISTS" (PDF). Society for Experimental Biology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Giles Oldroyd's Publons profile". Publons. Retrieved 8 June 2022.