Philip Donoghue
{{Short description|British paleontologist (born 1971)}}
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| name = Philip Donoghue
| image = Professor Philip Conrad Donoghue FRS.jpg
| caption = Donoghue in 2015
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|4|5}}
| birth_place = Morriston, Wales
| birth_name = Philip Conrad James Donoghue
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| work_institution = University of Bristol
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
- University of Leicester (BSc, PhD)
- University of Sheffield (MSc)}}
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.674486
| thesis_title = Architecture, growth, and function of ozarkodinid conodonts
| thesis_year = 1996
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- FRS (2015){{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117101110/https://royalsociety.org/people/philip-donoghue-11351/|publisher=Royal Society|archive-date=17 November 2015|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/philip-donoghue-11351/|location=London|title=Professor Philip Donoghue FRS|author=Anon|year=2015}} 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 Licence." --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=25 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}}}
- President's Medal (2014)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013)
- Charles Schuchert Award (2010)
- Bigsby Medal (2007)
- Hodson Fund (2005){{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2004)
- Murchison Fund (2002)
- President's Award from the Palaeontological Association (1996)}}
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| website = {{URL|https://donoghue.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/}}
}}Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS is a British palaeontologist{{cite book|last1=Sepkoski|first1=David|last2=Ruse|first2=Michael|title=The paleobiological revolution: essays on the growth of modern paleontology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wp1iAGi0m00C&pg=PA84|access-date=11 April 2011|date=15 May 2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-74861-0|page=84}} and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol.{{GoogleScholar|id=VdQriAIAAAAJ|title=Philip C. J. Donoghue}}{{cite journal|last1=Heimberg|first1=A. M.|last2=Sempere|first2=L. F.|last3=Moy|first3=V. N.|last4=Donoghue|first4=P. C. J.|last5=Peterson|first5=K. J.|title=MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=105|issue=8|year=2008|pages=2946–2950|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.0712259105|pmid=18287013|pmc=2268565|bibcode=2008PNAS..105.2946H |doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Benton|first1=M. J.|last2=Donoghue|first2=P. C. J.|title=Paleontological Evidence to Date the Tree of Life|journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution|volume=24|issue=1|year=2006|pages=26–53|issn=0737-4038|doi=10.1093/molbev/msl150|pmid=17047029|doi-access=free}}
Education
Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1992{{Who's Who | title=DONOGHUE, Prof. Philip Conrad James | id = U284133 | volume = 2016 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}} and PhD in Paleontology in 1997 for research supervised by Richard Aldridge and Mark Purnell.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Leicester|title=Architecture, growth, and function of ozarkodinid conodonts|first= Philip Conrad James|last=Donoghue|year=1996|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.674486|oclc=504874321}} {{open access}} He also holds a Master of Science degree in palynology from the University of Sheffield.
Research and career
Donoghue held an 1851 Research Fellowship at the School of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham in 1997–1998, and a NERC Independent Research Fellow at the Department of Geology of the University of Leicester in 1999 before returning to the University of Birmingham where he held a proleptic appointment and then lecturer in palaeobiology from 1999 to 2003. Donoghue moved to the School of Earth Sciences of the University of Bristol as lecturer in geology from 2003 to 2007, senior lecturer in geology in 2007–2008, reader in geology from 2008 to 2010 and professor of palaeobiology in 2010. Donoghue was a NESTA Research Fellow from 2005 to 2007.
Donoghue's research{{Scopus|id=26643513300}} focuses on major transitions in evolutionary history, including the origin and early evolution of vertebrates, animals, and plants. He has been influential in developing a 'molecular palaeobiology' in which evidence from living and fossil species, anatomy and molecular biology, phylogenetics and developmental biology, can be integrated to achieve a more holistic understanding of evolutionary history. He introduced synchrotron tomography to palaeontology,{{cite journal|last1=Donoghue|first1=Philip C. J.|last2=Bengtson|first2=Stefan|last3=Dong|first3=Xi-ping|last4=Gostling|first4=Neil J.|last5=Huldtgren|first5=Therese|last6=Cunningham|first6=John A.|last7=Yin|first7=Chongyu|last8=Yue|first8=Zhao|last9=Peng|first9=Fan|last10=Stampanoni|first10=Marco|title=Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos|journal=Nature|volume=442|issue=7103|year=2006|pages=680–683|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature04890|pmid=16900198|bibcode=2006Natur.442..680D |s2cid=4411929}} and has played a leading role in establishing the role of palaeontology in establishing evolutionary timescales.{{cite journal|last1=Donoghue|first1=Philip C. J.|last2=Forey|first2=Peter L.|last3=Aldridge|first3=Richard J.|title=Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny|journal=Biological Reviews|volume=75|issue=2|year=2007|pages=191–251|issn=1464-7931|doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00045.x|pmid=10881388|s2cid=22803015}}
Awards and honours
Donoghue was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502131144/https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2015/phillip-donoghue/|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2015/phillip-donoghue/|archive-date=2 May 2015|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|title=Professor Phillip Donoghue FRS}}
{{blockquote|Philip Donoghue is a major force in the emerging field of molecular palaeontology. His work bridges the gap between palaeobiology, developmental biology and molecular evolution in highly innovative ways. He was pioneering in first demonstrating the utility of synchrotron imaging in palaeontology and has been a world leader in driving forward our understanding of the remarkable fossil embryos from the late pre-Cambrian and Cambrian and their biological significance. His work takes developmental and genomic data constrained by the fossil record to bring new insights into large-scale evolutionary patterns and the relationship between phenotypic and gene regulatory evolution.}}
Donoghue has been on the Councils of the Palaeontological Association, Systematics Association, the Micropalaeontological Society and the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. His research has been recognised by the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize of the Leverhulme Trust in 2004, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society in 2007, and the President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2014.
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Category:Alumni of the University of Leicester
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