Loren H. Rieseberg FRSC FRS FRSB (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist.
Loren H. Rieseberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | Washington State University |
| Awards | Darwin–Wallace Medal (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | |
| Website | www |
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][4] In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacing Sally Otto.[5] He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has edited Molecular Ecology for many years.[2][6]
Honours and awards edit
- 1998 David Starr Jordan Prize[7][2]
- 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London,[8] Royal Society of Canada and Society of Biology[7]
- 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal[9]
Works edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "Loren Rieseberg". Department of Botany, Faculty of Science. UBC. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Loren H. Rieseberg". Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013.
- ^ "The Rieseberg lab - Plant Evolutionary Genomics". Department of Botany, University of British Columbia. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ "Loren Rieseberg: Biographical Information". Department of Botany, University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
- ^ "Loren Rieseberg appointed director of UBC Biodiversity Research Centre". UBC Science. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ "Molecular Ecology". Wiley Online Library. ISSN 1365-294X. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ a b R. Larry Peterson, Barry J. Shelp, and Christian R. Lacroix (July 2011). "Honouring Dr. Loren H. Rieseberg". Botany. 89 (7): iii. doi:10.1139/b11-035.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "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.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Rieseberg.