Loren H. Rieseberg Explained

Loren H. Rieseberg
Birth Place:	Alberta, Canada
Fields:	Botany
Alma Mater:	Washington State University
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Awards:	Darwin–Wallace Medal (2012)
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Loren H. Rieseberg (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist.

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,^{[1] [2]} and head of the Rieseberg Lab.^{[3] [4]} In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacing Sally Otto.^[5] He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has edited Molecular Ecology for many years.^{[2] [6]}

Honours and awards

• 1998 David Starr Jordan Prize^{[7] [2]}
• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London,^[8] Royal Society of Canada and Society of Biology^[7]
• 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal^[9]

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.

External links

• • "Loren H. Rieseberg", Scientific Commons

Notes and References

1. Web site: Loren Rieseberg . UBC . Department of Botany, Faculty of Science . May 3, 2019.
2. Web site: Loren H. Rieseberg . Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington . https://web.archive.org/web/20131104201317/http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/rieseberg.html . November 4, 2013 . dead.
3. Web site: The Rieseberg lab - Plant Evolutionary Genomics . Department of Botany, University of British Columbia . May 3, 2019.
4. Web site: Loren Rieseberg: Biographical Information . Department of Botany, University of British Columbia . 2010-04-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210251/http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/rieseberglab/people/biog.html . 2011-07-06 .
5. Web site: Loren Rieseberg appointed director of UBC Biodiversity Research Centre. 3 October 2016. UBC Science . 30 April 2019.
6. Web site: Molecular Ecology . . May 3, 2019 . 1365-294X.
7. Honouring Dr. Loren H. Rieseberg . R. Larry Peterson, Barry J. Shelp, and Christian R. Lacroix . . July 2011 . 89 . 7 . iii . 10.1139/b11-035.
8. Web site: Loren Reiseberg biography. Royal Society. 25 January 2017.
9. Web site: Medals and Prizes . . 2013-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130222082251/http://www.linnean.org/The-Society/awards_and_grants/Medals%2Band%2BPrizes . 2013-02-22 .