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Professor Liam Dolan

Co-Director, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

Professor Dolan's research interests focus on cellular development and evolution in land plants. He joins us from the John Innes Institute where he has been working on understanding the general principles of cell development and evolution using specialized rooting cells such as rhizoids and root hairs as models.

Professor Jane Langdale

Co-Director, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

Jane graduated from the University of Bath with a BSc in Applied Biology specializing in microbiology. She then went on to do a PhD in Human Genetics and her research interests now focus on the evolution of plant development.

Mr Andrew Liddell

James Martin Fellow,Institute on Plants for the 21st Century Institute

Andrew is responsible for IT & Research Support for the Institute.He has also been working on the development of internet components of BRAHMS, BRAHMS online and related Web Services. The BRAHMS online web site was created to distribute BRAHMS software and to provide online search facilities for groups of BRAHMS databases.(BRAHMS is a powerful and flexible database management system for botanical researchers and herbaria, providing wide-ranging and innovative functionality to assemble, manage, edit, analyse and publish your data).

Mr Denis Filer

James Martin Fellow, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

I work on the documentation and evaluation of plant diversity, especially through the development and implementation of the BRAHMS data storage and analysis system. BRAHMS is used globally to support the management of botanical data and a broad range of botanical research initiatives.

Dr Will Hawthorne

James Martin Fellow, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

I am a tropical botanist / plant ecologist, concentrating mostly on the interface between the academic and the practical management of tropical biodiversity, particularly in forest and mostly in Africa and the Caribbean.

Dr Stephen Harris

James Martin Fellow, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

My research concentrate on the use of molecular markers in evolutionary and conservation biology, especially hybridisation, polyploidy, the evolutionary consequences of human-mediated plant movement and conservation genetics.I am also interested in the problems of using herbarium specimens as a source of DNA for evolutionary studies, and the history of botany.

Dr Peter Darrah

James Martin Fellow, Institute on Plants for the 21st Century

Microbial ecology of the rhizosphere.

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British High Commissioner talks on the UK-Brunei link

A recent collaboration with the Ministry of Brunai was mentioned during a speech given by His Excellency Rob Fenn, British High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam at the Queen's Birthday Party 2011 celebration in the Indera Samudra Ballroom, The Empire Hotel & Country Club, Jerudong.

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Institute Director interviewed by Irish Times

Professor Liam Dolan has been interview by the Irish Times.

Liam Dolan, head of the 400-year-old University of Oxford’s botanic garden, says plant science is central to humanity’s future. ‘YOU COULD have been a fish,” says Dr Liam Dolan, keeper of the University of Oxford’s Botanic...

Professor Liam Dolan elected member of EMBO

Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany has been elected to the membership of EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organisation.

EMBO membership comprises around 1,400 of the world’s foremost molecular biologists from all fields ranging from evolutionary to computational biology,...