Name Jane Langdale | Fields Botany | |
Institutions Yale UniversityUniversity of OxfordOxford Martin School Doctoral students Debbie AlexanderArmando Bravo-GarciaDave FitterJim FouracreAnne FrancisEftychios FrangedakisMatt HodgesRuairidh SawersYuki Yasumura Notable awards EMBO member (2007)FRS (2015) Books How to Succeed as a Scientist: From Postdoc to Professor Institution University of Oxford, Oxford Martin School, Yale University | ||
Jane Alison Langdale (born 1960) FRS is a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. and a Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford.
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Education
Langdale was educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School in Coventry and the University of Bath, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Biology. Her PhD was in human genetics and carried out at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. and awarded by the University of London.
Career
Following her PhD, Langdale was employed for five years as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University with Tim Nelson. She returned to the UK in 1990, to work in the Department of Plant Sciences where she has worked since.
Research
Langdale's research interests are in two main areas:
- the evolution of leaf development and meristem function in bryophytes, lycophytes and monilophytes
- the evolution and development of kranz anatomy in C4 plants, especially rice.
Langdale's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Science, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Development, Gene, Trends in Genetics,The Plant Cell, the Annual Review of Plant Biology, Planta, Plant Physiology, the Journal of Cell Science, The EMBO Journal, The Plant Journal, PLOS ONE Genes & Development and the New Phytologist.
Langdale is the co-author of the book How to Succeed as a Scientist: From Postdoc to Professor with materials scientist Barbara Gabrys. She featured on the BBC series, Plants: From Roots to Riches in 2014 with Kathy Willis.
Awards and honours
Langdale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:
Langdale was elected an EMBO Member in 2007.