Giles Oldroyd | |
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Born | Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of East Anglia University of California, Berkeley |
Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plant symbioses[1] |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Stanford University |
Thesis | Identification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato (1998) |
Notable students | Yiliang Ding |
Website | www |
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]