Children one son, one daughter Name Ottoline Leyser | Fields Developmental biology | |
Born Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser 7 March 1965 (age 59) ( 1965-03-07 ) Thesis An analysis of fasciated mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of cytokinin in this phenotype (1990) Known for GARNet: Genomic Arabidopsis Resource Network Spouse Stephen John Day (m. 1986) Books Mechanisms in plant development Notable awards Royal Society, Rosalind Franklin Award, Order of the British Empire | ||
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Dame Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser Day DBE FRS (born 7 March 1965), known as Ottoline Leyser, is a British plant biologist and Professor of Plant Development at the University of Cambridge and director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge.
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Education
Leyser was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986, and a PhD in Genetics in 1990 from the same University for research supervised by Ian Furner.
Research
Leyser's research interests are in the genetics of plant development and the interaction of plant hormones with the environment.
Awards and honours
Leyser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. Her nomination reads:
Leyser is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2007, and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2009 to 2015 and a member of the Council’s Working Party on Biofuels (2009-2011).
She was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to plant science, science in society, and equality and diversity in science.
Personal life
Leyser is the daughter of the historians Henrietta and Karl Leyser. She married Stephen John Day in 1986 and has one son and one daughter.