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Name
  
Loren Rieseberg

Role
  
Botanist

Fields
  
Botany


Loren H. Rieseberg httpswwwmacfoundorgmediaphotosrieseberglo


Institutions
  
University of British Columbia, Indiana University

Alma mater
  
Washington State University

Notable awards
  
2003 MacArthur Fellows Program 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal

Education
  
Washington State University (1987)

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Loren H. Rieseberg, FRS is a Canadian-American botanist.

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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, and head of the Rieseberg Lab. In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre.

Honours and awards

  • 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • 2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
  • 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal
  • 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.

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