Ottoline Leyser

Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS is a British plant biologist.

Biography

Ottoline received her BA (1986) and PhD (1990) in Genetics from the University of Cambridge. After post-doctoral research at Indiana University and Cambridge, in she built an independent research programme at the University of York.^[1], where she worked from 1994-2010. Among her honours are the Society of Experimental Biology’s President’s Medal (2000), the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award (2007), the International Plant Growth Substance Association’s Silver Medal (2010), and she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.^[2] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2007. She is President Elect of International Plant Molecular Biology, Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council Bioscience Skills and Careers Strategy Panel, and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.^[3] She is Co-Editor in Chief of Current Opinions in Plant Biology and an Editor of Development. Prof. Ottoline Leyser in currently Associate Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Footnotes

1. ^ "BBSRC spotlight interview". http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/business-magazine/2010/summer/spotlight-ottoline-leyser.aspx. 
2. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 7. 31 December 2008.
3. ^ Nuffield Council on Bioethics' official website-Biofuels

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Name	Leyser, Ottoline
Alternative names	Leyser, Henrietta Miriam Ottoline
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