Ottoline Leyser
Ottoline Leyser | |
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Leyser in 2016 | |
| Born | Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser 7 March 1965 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England |
| Education | Wychwood School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | GARNet: Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network |
| Spouse |
Stephen John Day (m. 1986) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | |
| Awards | Rosalind Franklin Award (2007) Genetics Society Medal (2016) EMBO Member (2017) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plant Developmental Biology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype (1990) |
| Website | www |
Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS (born 7 March 1965) is a British plant biologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge who is on secondment as CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). From 2013 to 2020 she was the director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge.