Liam Dolan
{{Short description|British botanist}}
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| caption = Liam Dolan at the Royal Society admissions day in London, 2014
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| fields = Plant development
Plant evolution
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- University College Dublin (BSc)
- University of Pennsylvania (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)
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| thesis_year = 1991
| doctoral_advisor = R. Scott Poethig
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| awards = EMBO Member (2009)
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Liam Dolan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/liam-dolan-11347/ |author=Anon|title=Professor Liam Dolan FRS |publisher=Royal Society|year=2014 |location=London }} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}} is a senior group leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Research Groups |url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research/research-groups |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=oeaw.ac.at}} He previously served as Sherardian Professor of Botany in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 2009 to 2021.{{Scopus id}}{{Cite journal
| pmid = 25798897
| pmc = 4370483
| year = 2015
| last1 = Saint-Marcoux
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| title = Identification of Reference Genes for Real-Time Quantitative PCR Experiments in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
| journal = PLOS One
| volume = 10
| issue = 3
| pages = e0118678
| last2 = Proust
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| last3 = Dolan
| first3 = L | author-link3 = Liam Dolan
| last4 = Langdale
| first4 = J. A. | author-link4 = Jane A. Langdale
| doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0118678
| bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1018678S
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Education
Dolan was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for genetic analysis of leaf development in the cotton plant Gossypium barbadense supervised by Scott Poethig.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Liam|last=Dolan |title=A genetic analysis of leaf development in cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |year=1991 |oclc=187456465|id={{ProQuest|303940892}}}}
Career and research
Following his PhD, Dolan spent three years doing postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. After 13 years as an independent project leader in Norwich, Dolan moved to Oxford as the Sherardian Professor of Botany in 2009 to 2021.
Dolan's research{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}} aims to define genetic mechanisms that control the development of plants and determine how these mechanisms have changed since plants colonised the land 500 million years ago.{{Cite journal | last1 = Foreman | first1 = J. | last2 = Demidchik | first2 = V. | last3 = Bothwell | first3 = J. H. F. | last4 = Mylona | first4 = P. | last5 = Miedema | first5 = H. | last6 = Torres | first6 = M. A. | last7 = Linstead | first7 = P. | last8 = Costa | first8 = S. | last9 = Brownlee | first9 = C. | last10 = Jones | first10 = J. D. G. | author-link10 = Jonathan D. G. Jones| doi = 10.1038/nature01485| last11 = Davies | first11 = J. M. | last12 = Dolan | first12 = L. | author-link12 = Liam Dolan| title = Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth | journal = Nature | volume = 422 | issue = 6930 | pages = 442–446 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12660786| bibcode = 2003Natur.422..442F | s2cid = 4328808 }}{{Cite journal
| pmid = 8275865
| year = 1993
| last1 = Dolan
| first1 = L
| title = Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root
| journal = Development
| volume = 119
| issue = 1
| pages = 71–84
| last2 = Janmaat
| first2 = K
| last3 = Willemsen
| first3 = V
| last4 = Linstead
| first4 = P
| last5 = Poethig
| first5 = S
| last6 = Roberts
| first6 = K
| last7 = Scheres
| first7 = B
| doi = 10.1242/dev.119.1.71
| hdl = 1874/12639
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}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1995.8060943.x| pmid = 8580964| title = Ethylene is a positive regulator of root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana| journal = The Plant Journal| volume = 8| issue = 6| pages = 943–8| year = 1995| last1 = Tanimoto | first1 = M. | last2 = Roberts | first2 = K. | last3 = Dolan | first3 = L. | doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal
| pmid = 16760485
| year = 2006
| last1 = Gapper
| first1 = C
| title = Control of plant development by reactive oxygen species
| journal = Plant Physiology
| volume = 141
| issue = 2
| pages = 341–5
| last2 = Dolan
| first2 = L
| doi = 10.1104/pp.106.079079
| pmc = 1475470
| pmid = 21684913
| year = 1998
| last1 = Dolan
| first1 = L
| title = Clonal analysis of leaf development in cotton
| journal = American Journal of Botany
| volume = 85
| issue = 3
| pages = 315
| last2 = Poethig
| first2 = R
| doi=10.2307/2446322
| jstor = 2446322
}} Dolan's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517213314/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/00A4A860-0C12-4797-ADB6-D808392AB793|url=http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/00A4A860-0C12-4797-ADB6-D808392AB793|title=UK Government research grants awarded to Lian Dolan|publisher=Research Councils UK|archive-date=2015-05-17}}
Dolan has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the development and evolution of land plant rooting systems.{{cite journal|last1=Qu|first1=Li-Jia|last2=Kim|first2=Chul Min|last3=Dolan|first3=Liam|title=ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE SIX-LIKE Class I Genes Promote Root Hair Development in the Grass Brachypodium distachyon|journal=PLOS Genetics|volume=12|issue=8|year=2016|pages=e1006211|issn=1553-7404|doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006211|pmid=27494519 |pmc=4975483 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal|last1=Hetherington|first1=Alexander J.|last2=Dolan|first2=Liam|title=Stepwise and independent origins of roots among land plants|journal=Nature|volume=561|issue=7722|year=2018|pages=235–238|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/s41586-018-0445-z|pmid=30135586|pmc=6175059|bibcode=2018Natur.561..235H}} He was the first to define the precise cellular body plan of the Arabidopsis root and discovered the molecular genetic mechanism governing root hair cell differentiation. He demonstrated that this mechanism is ancient and was the first to discover the mechanism that controlled the development of the earliest land plant rooting systems that caused dramatic climate change over 400 million years ago. These pivotal discoveries illuminate the interrelationships between the development of plants, their evolution and the Earth System.
With Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Alison Mary |author-link1=Alison Mary Smith |last2=Coupand |first2=George |author-link2=George Coupland |last3=Dolan |first3=Liam |author-link3=Liam Dolan |last4=Harberd |first4=Nicholas |author-link4=Nicholas Harberd |last5=Jones |first5=Jonathan |author-link5=Jonathan D. G. Jones |last6=Martin |first6=Cathie |author-link6=Cathie Martin |last7=Sablowski |first7=Robert |last8=Amey |first8=Abigail |date=2009 |title=Plant Biology |url=https://archive.org/details/plantbiology0000unse |publisher=Garland Science |isbn=978-0815340256 |url-access=registration }}
=Awards and honours=
Dolan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. Dolan was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2009,{{Cite web|url=http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-liam-dolan-elected-to-the-membership-of-the-european-molecular-biology-organization/|title=Professor Liam Dolan Elected to the Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization {{!}} Magdalen College Oxford|website=magd.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-07-18}} and was awarded the President's Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sebiology.org/Documents/Meetings/Pres_Meds.pdf |title=Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists |access-date=20 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304134227/http://www.sebiology.org/Documents/Meetings/Pres_Meds.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} In 2024, Dolan was elected a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences{{Cite web|url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/news/liam-dolan-elected-member-of-the-austrian-academy-of-sciences|title=Liam Dolan Elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences|website=oeaw.ac.at}}
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