Liam Dolan

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Liam Dolan
FRS
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Liam Dolan at the Royal Society admissions day in London, 2014
Alma mater
Awards EMBO Member (2009)
Scientific career
Fields Cellular development
Plant evolution
Institutions
Thesis A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)  (1991)
Doctoral advisor R. Scott Poethig [1]
Website www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research/research-groups/liam-dolan

Liam Dolan FRS [2] is a Senior Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, [3] the Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. [4] [5] [6]

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Education

Dolan was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for genetic analysis of leaf development in the cotton plant Gossypium barbadense supervised by Scott Poethig. [1]

Career and research

Following his PhD, Dolan spent three years doing postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. After 13 years as an independent project leader in Norwich, Dolan moved to Oxford as the Sherardian Professor of Botany in 2009.

Dolan's research [7] aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonised the land 500 million years ago. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Dolan's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). [13]

Dolan has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the development and evolution of land plant rooting systems. [2] [14] [15] He was the first to define the precise cellular body plan of the Arabidopsis root and discovered the molecular genetic mechanism governing root hair cell differentiation. [2] He demonstrated that this mechanism is ancient and was the first to discover the mechanism that controlled the development of the earliest land plant rooting systems that caused dramatic climate change over 400 million years ago. [2] These pivotal discoveries illuminate our understanding of the interrelationships between the development of plants, their evolution and the Earth System. [2]

With Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology. [16]

Awards and honours

Dolan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. [2] Dolan was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2009, [17] and was awarded the President's Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001. [18] In 2024, Dolan was elected a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences [19]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dolan, Liam (1991). A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania. OCLC   187456465. ProQuest   303940892.
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    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. "Research Groups". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  4. Liam Dolan publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. Saint-Marcoux, D; Proust, H; Dolan, L; Langdale, J. A. (2015). "Identification of Reference Genes for Real-Time Quantitative PCR Experiments in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha". PLOS One . 10 (3): e0118678. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1018678S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118678 . PMC   4370483 . PMID   25798897. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  6. Takeda, S.; Gapper, C.; Kaya, H.; Bell, E.; Kuchitsu, K.; Dolan, L. (2008). "Local Positive Feedback Regulation Determines Cell Shape in Root Hair Cells". Science. 319 (5867): 1241–1244. Bibcode:2008Sci...319.1241T. doi:10.1126/science.1152505. PMID   18309082. S2CID   206510120.
  7. Liam Dolan publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. Foreman, J.; Demidchik, V.; Bothwell, J. H. F.; Mylona, P.; Miedema, H.; Torres, M. A.; Linstead, P.; Costa, S.; Brownlee, C.; Jones, J. D. G.; Davies, J. M.; Dolan, L. (2003). "Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth". Nature . 422 (6930): 442–446. Bibcode:2003Natur.422..442F. doi:10.1038/nature01485. PMID   12660786. S2CID   4328808.
  9. Dolan, L; Janmaat, K; Willemsen, V; Linstead, P; Poethig, S; Roberts, K; Scheres, B (1993). "Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root". Development. 119 (1): 71–84. doi:10.1242/dev.119.1.71. hdl: 1874/12639 . PMID   8275865.
  10. Tanimoto, M.; Roberts, K.; Dolan, L. (1995). "Ethylene is a positive regulator of root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana". The Plant Journal. 8 (6): 943–8. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1995.8060943.x . PMID   8580964.
  11. Gapper, C; Dolan, L (2006). "Control of plant development by reactive oxygen species". Plant Physiology. 141 (2): 341–5. doi:10.1104/pp.106.079079. PMC   1475470 . PMID   16760485.
  12. Dolan, L; Poethig, R (1998). "Clonal analysis of leaf development in cotton". American Journal of Botany. 85 (3): 315. doi:10.2307/2446322. JSTOR   2446322. PMID   21684913.
  13. "UK Government research grants awarded to Lian Dolan". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015.
  14. Qu, Li-Jia; Kim, Chul Min; Dolan, Liam (2016). "ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE SIX-LIKE Class I Genes Promote Root Hair Development in the Grass Brachypodium distachyon". PLOS Genetics. 12 (8): e1006211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006211 . ISSN   1553-7404. PMC   4975483 . PMID   27494519.
  15. Hetherington, Alexander J.; Dolan, Liam (2018). "Stepwise and independent origins of roots among land plants". Nature. 561 (7722): 235–238. Bibcode:2018Natur.561..235H. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0445-z. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   6175059 . PMID   30135586.
  16. Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology . Garland Science. ISBN   978-0815340256.
  17. "Professor Liam Dolan Elected to the Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization | Magdalen College Oxford". www.magd.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  18. "Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  19. "Liam Dolan Elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences".

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