Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | Washington State University |
| Awards | 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | botany |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia, Indiana University |
Loren H. Rieseberg, FRS is a Canadian-American botanist.
Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated from Washington State University, with a Ph.D. in 1987.
He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University,[1][2] and head of the Rieseberg Lab.[3] In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre.[4]
Honours and Awards
- 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London[5]
- 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal[6]
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Works
- Rieseberg, L.H., and J.H. Willis. "Plant speciation". 2007. Science 317:910-914.
- Rieseberg, L.H., T.E. Wood, and E. Baack. 2006. "The nature of plant species". Nature 440:524-527.
- Harter, A.V., K.A. Gardner, D. Falush, D.L. Lentz, R. Bye, L.H. Rieseberg. 2004. "Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America". Nature 430:201-205.
- Burke, J.M., and L.H. Rieseberg. 2003. "The fitness effects of transgenic disease resistance in wild sunflowers". Science 300:1250.
- Rieseberg, L.H., O. Raymond, D.M. Rosenthal, Z. Lai, K. Livingstone, T. Nakazato, J.L. Durphy, A.E. Schwarzbach, L.A. Donovan, and C. Lexer. 2003. "Major ecological transitions in annual sunflowers facilitated by hybridization". Science 301:1211-1216.
- Rieseberg, L. H., A. Widmer, M. A. Arntz, and J. M. Burke. 2002. "Directional selection is the primary cause of phenotypic diversification". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12242-12245.
References
- ^ http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=lriesebe
- ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/rieseberg.html
- ^ http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/rieseberglab/people/biog.html
- ^ https://science.ubc.ca/news/loren-rieseberg-appointed-director-ubc-biodiversity-research-centre
- ^ "Loren Reiseberg biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ^ "Medals and Prizes". The Linnean Society of London. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
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External links
- "Loren H. Rieseberg", Scientific Commons
- Rieseberg web page University of British Columbia