George Coupland Explained

George Coupland
Birth Date:1959 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Dumfries, Scotland
Spouse:Jane E. Parker
Thesis Title:The conjugation system and insertion sequences of the IncN plasmid R46
Thesis Url:http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12011
Thesis Year:1984

George Michael Coupland FRS (born 20 December 1959, in Dumfries) is a Scottish plant scientist, and Research Scientist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Education

Coupland earned a First Class Honours from University of Glasgow in 1981, and PhD from University of Edinburgh in 1984.[5] [6]

Career and research

He was postdoctoral researcher at University of Cologne from 1985 to 1988.He was Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, University of Cambridge, from 1989 to 1990.He was Research Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, from 1990 to 2001.[7]

With Liam Dolan, Nicholas Harberd, Alison Mary Smith, Cathie Martin, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the undergraduate textbook Plant Biology.[8]

Awards and honours

Coupland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2007[9] and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in May 2012.[10]

Personal life

He is married to British botanist Jane E. Parker.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne - Control of Flowering Time . 7 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512043149/http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/english/research/couplandGroup/coupland/ . 12 May 2011 .
  2. Web site: Fellowship of the Royal Society. Kate. FromSEB. Sebiology.org. 10 June 2016. 24 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095914/http://www.sebiology.org/publications/Bulletin/July07/Fellowship.html. dead.
  3. Book: John lnnes Centre. John lnnes Centre & Sainsbury Laboratory Annual Report 2001. 2001. The Centre. Norwich, England.
  4. Society for Experimental Biology
  5. George Coupland's
  6. PhD. University of Edinburgh. The conjugation system and insertion sequences of the IncN plasmid R46. George Michael. Coupland. 1984. 59322492. 1842/12011.
  7. Web site: Coupland, George. Mpg.de. 10 June 2016.
  8. Book: Smith . Alison Mary . Alison Mary Smith . Coupand . George . George Coupland . Dolan . Liam . Liam Dolan . Harberd . Nicholas . Nicholas Harberd . Jones . Jonathan . Jonathan D. G. Jones . Martin . Cathie . Cathie Martin . Sablowski . Robert . Amey . Abigail . 2009 . Plant Biology . . 978-0815340256 . registration .
  9. Web site: Fellows. royalsociety.org. The Royal Society. 12 October 2014.
  10. Web site: National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected. https://web.archive.org/web/20120504002407/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html. dead. 4 May 2012. 1 May 2012. National Academy of Sciences.

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