Giles Oldroyd

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Giles Oldroyd
FRS
Born
Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd
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
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Thesis Identification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato  (1998)
Notable students Yiliang Ding
Website www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/giles-oldroyd

Giles Edward Dixon Oldroyd FRS is a British plant scientist and president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. [2] He previously served as a professor at the University of Cambridge, [1] [3] where he worked on legume symbioses in Medicago truncatula . [4] He has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award winner and the Society of Biology (SEB) President's Medal winner. [5] According to Clarivate Analytics, Oldroyd was listed among the top 1% of highly cited researchers in plant sciences in multiple years beginning in 2014. [6]

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Education

Oldroyd attended Huntington School, York before studying for a BA degree in plant biology at the University of East Anglia from 1990 to 1994. [7] He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley, studying plant/pathogen interactions in tomatoes. [8]

Career and research

After his PhD, he moved to Stanford University to work as a postdoctoral scientist studying legume/rhizobial interactions in the laboratory of Sharon R. Long. [9] [10] [11] In 2002, Oldroyd moved to the John Innes Centre to start his own research group and in 2017 he moved his research group to the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. In 2020, Oldroyd was appointed to the Russel R Geiger Professorship of Crop Science in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the new Crop Science Centre, a partnership between the University of Cambridge and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.

Oldroyd's work focuses on understanding the signalling mechanisms that allow the associations with these beneficial micro-organisms and the use of this information to transfer the nitrogen-fixing capability from legumes to cereal crops.

In 2012, Oldroyd was part of a collaboration that received a US$10 million research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study nitrogen-fixing symbioses in cereal crops, aiming to engineer cereal crops such as maize to undergo the beneficial root nodule symbiosis. [12] [13] The Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project received a further $35 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations in 2023. [14]

As of January 2026, he has an h-index of 87, according to Google Scholar. [1]

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 Giles Oldroyd publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Giles Oldroyd". Danforth Plant Science Center. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  3. ↑ "Professor Giles Oldroyd". Sainsbury Laboratory.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 "PRESIDENT'S MEDALLISTS" (PDF). Society for Experimental Biology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Giles Oldroyd's Web of Science profile". Publons. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "Professor Giles Oldroyd". Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge . Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  8. ↑ Oldroyd, Giles Edward Dixon (1998). Identification and characterization of Prf a resistance gene in tomato (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC   42329477.
  9. ↑ Oldroyd, G.E.D; Wais, R. J; Galera, C; Catoira, R; Penmetsa, R. V; Cook, D; Gough, C; Denarie, J; Long, S. R (2000). "Genetic analysis of calcium spiking responses in nodulation mutants of Medicago truncatula". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97 (24): 13407–13412. Bibcode:2000PNAS...9713407W. doi: 10.1073/pnas.230439797 . PMC   27237 . PMID   11078514.
  10. ↑ "Giles Oldroyd profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Passion drives the best and brightest in biology". THE - Times Higher Education. 14 July 2006.
  12. ↑ "GM crop scientists win $10m grant". BBC News. 15 July 2012.
  13. ↑ "ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture".
  14. ↑ "Cambridge-led consortium receives $35m to boost crop production sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa".
  15. ↑ "Giles Oldroyd | Faculty Member". Faculty Opinions.
  16. ↑ "Giles Oldroyd". The Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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