Richard Dixon (biologist)

For other people named Richard Dixon, see Richard Dixon (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Richard Nixon.

Richard Dixon FRS
Dixon in 2018
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences [1]
Scientific career
Institutions	University of North Texas Texas A&M University University of Cambridge Royal Holloway College
Thesis	Phytoalexin production by plant tissue cultures  (1976)
Website	bdi.unt.edu/richard-dixon

Richard A. Dixon is a British biologist who is distinguished research professor at the University of North Texas, a faculty fellow of the Hagler Institute of Advanced Study and Timothy C. Hall-Heep distinguished faculty chair at Texas A&M University. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Education

Dixon studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 ^[5] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research on the production of Phytoalexin by plant tissue cultures. ^[6]

Career and research

After his DPhil, Dixon was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge before starting his own research group at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.^{[ when? ]} He served as Director of the Plant Biology Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma from 1998 to 2013. For over 30 years he has been a world leader in the field of plant specialized metabolism, using multidisciplinary approaches to decipher the biosynthetic and regulatory pathways leading to lignin and bioactive flavonoids, and driving the field of metabolic engineering for development of more nutritious forages and bioenergy crops with enhanced traits for biorefining. ^{[2] [3] [7] [8] [9]} His papers have been cited over 66,000 times. ^[2]

From January 1, 2023 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ^[10] and he is also a member of the Editorial Board for PNAS . ^[11]

Awards and honours

Dixon was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States. ^[1] He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). ^[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. ^[2]

Dixon has been recognized as a Pioneer Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists. ^[12]

References

1. Marino, Melissa (2008). "Profile of Richard Dixon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 105 (7): 2263–2265. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.2263M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800273105 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2268123 . PMID   18272484.
2. Anon (2018). "Professor Richard Dixon FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

   "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. Richard Dixon publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. "Richard Dixon – Department of Biological Sciences". biology.unt.edu.
5. Anon (2015). "Interview with Richard A. Dixon". Trends in Plant Science. 20 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.009. ISSN   1360-1385. PMID   25466978.
6. Dixon, Richard A. (1976). Phytoalexin Production by Plant Tissue Cultures. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   863459623. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.453717.
7. Dixon, Richard A. (1995). "Stress-Induced Phenylpropanoid Metabolism". The Plant Cell. 7 (7): 1085–1097. doi:10.1105/tpc.7.7.1085. ISSN   1040-4651. PMC   160915 . PMID   12242399.
8. Lamb, Chris; Dixon, Richard A. (1997). "The Oxidative burst in plant disease resistance". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology. 48 (1): 251–275. doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.251. ISSN   1040-2519. PMID   15012264.
9. Levine, Alex; Tenhaken, Raimund; Dixon, Richard; Lamb, Chris (1994). "H₂O₂ from the oxidative burst orchestrates the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response". Cell. 79 (4): 583–593. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(94)90544-4. ISSN   0092-8674. PMID   7954825. S2CID   1488844.
10. "Welcoming Richard Dixon as the new Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions B". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
11. "Editorial Board | PNAS".
12. "ASPB Pioneer Members".

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