Richard Dixon (biologist)
{{short description|Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of North Texas}}
{{other people|Richard Dixon}}
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| workplaces = University of North Texas
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Royal Holloway College
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| alma_mater = University of Oxford
| thesis_title = Phytoalexin production by plant tissue cultures
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Richard A. Dixon is a British biologist who is distinguished research professor at the University of North Texas, a faculty fellow of the Hagler Institute of Advanced Study and Timothy C. Hall-Heep distinguished faculty chair at Texas A&M University.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-dixon-13809/|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|author=Anon|year=2018|title=Professor Richard Dixon FRS}} 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}}}}{{Google scholar id}}{{cite web|url=https://biology.unt.edu/people/richard-dixon|title=Richard Dixon – Department of Biological Sciences|website=biology.unt.edu}}
Education
Dixon studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973{{cite journal|title=Interview with Richard A. Dixon|journal=Trends in Plant Science|volume=20|issue=1|year=2015|pages=1–2|issn=1360-1385|doi=10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.009|author=Anon|pmid=25466978}} {{closed access}} followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research on the production of Phytoalexin by plant tissue cultures.{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph010917462|title=Phytoalexin Production by Plant Tissue Cultures|first= Richard A.|last=Dixon|date=1976|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.453717}}|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|oclc=863459623}}
Career and research
After his DPhil, Dixon was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge before starting his own research group at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.{{when|date=June 2018}} He served as Director of the Plant Biology Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma from 1998 to 2013. For over 30 years he has been a world leader in the field of plant specialized metabolism, using multidisciplinary approaches to decipher the biosynthetic and regulatory pathways leading to lignin and bioactive flavonoids, and driving the field of metabolic engineering for development of more nutritious forages and bioenergy crops with enhanced traits for biorefining.{{cite journal|last1=Dixon|first1=Richard A.|title=Stress-Induced Phenylpropanoid Metabolism|journal=The Plant Cell|volume=7|issue=7|year=1995|pages=1085–1097|issn=1040-4651|doi=10.1105/tpc.7.7.1085| pmc=160915|pmid=12242399}}{{cite journal|last1=Lamb|first1=Chris|last2=Dixon|first2=Richard A.|title=The Oxidative burst in plant disease resistance|journal=Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology|volume=48|issue=1|year=1997|pages=251–275|issn=1040-2519|doi=10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.251|pmid=15012264}} {{closed access}}{{cite journal|last1=Levine|first1=Alex|last2=Tenhaken|first2=Raimund|last3=Dixon|first3=Richard|last4=Lamb|first4=Chris|title=H₂O₂ from the oxidative burst orchestrates the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response|journal=Cell|volume=79|issue=4|year=1994|pages=583–593|issn=0092-8674|doi=10.1016/0092-8674(94)90544-4|pmid= 7954825|s2cid=1488844}} {{closed access}} His papers have been cited over 66,000 times.
From January 1, 2023 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B{{cite web |title=Welcoming Richard Dixon as the new Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions B |url=https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/01/phil-trans-b-new-editor/?_ga=2.172992035.1420523407.1677749901-1893517947.1674559056 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=2 March 2023}} and he is also a member of the Editorial Board for PNAS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pnas.org/page/about/editorial-board|title = Editorial Board | PNAS}}
=Awards and honours=
Dixon was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States.{{cite journal|last1=Marino|first1=Melissa|title=Profile of Richard Dixon|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=105|issue=7|year=2008|pages=2263–2265|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.0800273105|pmid=18272484|pmc=2268123 |bibcode=2008PNAS..105.2263M|doi-access=free}} He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.
Dixon has been recognized as a Pioneer Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists.{{cite web | url=https://aspb.org/membership/aspb-pioneer-members/ | title=ASPB Pioneer Members }}
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