Ottoline Leyser

Ottoline Leyser
Leyser in 2016
Born
Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser

(1965-03-07) 7 March 1965 (age 59)
EducationWychwood School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)[4]
Known forGARNet: Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network[5]
Spouse
Stephen John Day
(m. 1986)
[4]
Children2[4]
Parents
AwardsRosalind Franklin Award (2007)
Genetics Society Medal (2016)
EMBO Member (2017)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPlant Developmental Biology[2]
Institutions
ThesisAn analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype (1990)
Websitewww.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/leyser-ottoline Edit this at Wikidata

Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS (born 7 March 1965)[4] is a British plant biologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge who is on secondment as CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). From 2013 to 2020 she was the director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference nas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Ottoline Leyser publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Armitage, Jim (3 December 2023). "I'm harnessing Britain's brightest ideas to help business". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d Anon (2015). "Leyser, Prof. (Henrietta Miriam) Ottoline". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.245819. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Beale, M; Dupree, P; Lilley, K; Beynon, J; Trick, M; Clarke, J; Bevan, M; Bancroft, I; Jones, J; May, S; Van De Sande, K; Leyser, O (2002). "GARNet, the Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network". Trends in Plant Science. 7 (4): 145–7. doi:10.1016/s1360-1385(01)02224-5. PMID 11950604.