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Prof. Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Ph.D, ForMemRS

Director

Elliot Meyerowitz is the Inaugural Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University. He studies the genetics of flowering plants, especially the small laboratory plant Arabidopsis thaliana. His laboratory has identified and cloned numerous flower development genes, leading to the "ABC Model" of floral organ specification. They were also the first to clone plant hormone receptor genes, explaining how plants respond to the stress hormone ethylene. Their current work combines studies of gene expression and cell division patterns in the growing tips of shoots (shoot apical meristems) with computational and mathematical modeling, as a way of understanding the dynamics of plant growth. Among his honors are the Genetics Society of America Medal (1996); the International Prize for Biology, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1997); the Lounsbery Award of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1999); the R.G. Harrison Prize of the International Society of Developmental Biologists (2005); and the Balzan Prize (2006). He received an honorary doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure in Lyons in 2007. Professor Meyerowitz is past president of the Genetics Society of America, the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology, and the Society for Developmental Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (he completed a term as a member of the Academy Council in 2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a foreign member of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the Académie des Sciences of France, and an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Prof. Ottoline Leyser, CBE, FRS

Associate Director

Ottoline Leyser's research is aimed at understanding the role of plant hormones in plant developmental plasticity. She studies the hormonal control of shoot branching in arabidopsis in order to understand better how plant hormones integrate environmental, developmental, and genetic inputs to regulate body plan. Her focus is on a network of three interacting hormones that move over long distances in the plant, providing a rich source of systemic information that is locally interpreted to regulate branching. She is interested in the biochemical and physiological modes of action of these hormones and how they relate to whole plant responses. Central to her approach is the combination of genetic analysis in the model plant Arabidopsis, and computational modelling of the system.