Loren Rieseberg

loren.rieseberg (at) botany.ubc.ca

DEGREES

1987             Ph.D., Botany, Washington State University, Pullman
1984             M.S., Botany, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1981             B.A., Biology, Southern College, Chattanooga

 

APPOINTMENTS

2006-            Professor, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia
2004-            Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
2000-04        Associate Chair for Research and Facilities, Department of Biology, IU
1997-04        Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
1996-00        Director, Plant Sciences Program, Indiana University
1993-97        Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University
1987-93        Assistant Professor of Botany, Claremont Graduate School, CA

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2010-            Fellow, Royal Society (UK National Academy)
2010-            Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
2010-            Fellow, Society of Biology
2010-14        Member-at-Large, Biological Sciences Section, AAAS
2006             President, American Genetics Association
2005-            Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
2004             Guggenheim Fellowship
2004             Stebbins Medal (medal given for the best book, monograph, or article published on plant systematics and plant                       evolution the previous year)
2004-            Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003-08        MacArthur Fellowship (Unrestricted $500,000 fellowship awarded to “individuals who have shown extraordinary                        originality and dedication in their creative pursuits”)
2003             A.R. Wallace – R.E. Franklin Medal for significant but under-appreciated contributions to the life sciences
2003-            Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1998             David Starr Jordan Prize (International prize given once every three years to a scientist under 40 years of age for                       "innovative contributions to the study of evolution, ecology, population, or organismal biology")
1999             Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University
1997-07        Class of ‘54 Endowed Professorship
1997             Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University
1990             George R. Cooley Award in Plant Systematics
1990-91        Second Vice-President, California Botanical Society

 

LECTURES

2010             George Williams Lecture, State University of New York, NY
2010             Loomis Distinguished Lecture, Iowa State University, IA
2009             William F. Hanna Lecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
2008             Darwin Lecture, University of Calgary
2008             Annals of Botany Lecture, Botany 2008, Vancouver, BC
2008             Melinda Denton Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2006             Brewer Lecture, Washington State University, Pullman
2006             Double-Helix Lecture, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2006             Sir Julian Huxley Lecture, Systematics Association, London
2007             Keynote Address, Summit on Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments, Los Angeles, CA
2003             Eminent Biologist Lecture, Pittsburgh Ecoforum
2003             John Davidson Lecture in Plant Systematics, University of British Columbia
2001             Bessey Lecture, Iowa State University
1994             G. Ledyard Stebbins Lecture, Botanical Society of America annual meeting

 

BROADER RECOGNITION

2008             Featured in “Best in Class” Nature 455:455-458. PDF
2006             Profiled as “Dream Team Recruit,” Globe and Mail, October 30, 2006
2007             Featured in the Q & A section of Current Biology 17:R187-R188 PDF
2003             Profiled in Science (Vol. 3025, p. 1499): No Garden-Variety Biologist PDF
2002             Research on transgenic plants with A. Snow and D. Pilson cited by Discover magazine as one of top 100 science stories                       of 2002

 

EDITORIAL

2009-10        Faculty of 1000
2008-            Editorial Board, Evolutionary Applications
2002-            Editorial Board, Conservation Genetics
2001-            Editorial Board, BMC Genetics
2001-03        Senior Editor, New Phytologist
2000-01        Chief Editor, Molecular Ecology Notes
1998-            Chief Editor, Molecular Ecology (biweekly journal averaging 1400 submissions per year)
1999             Assistant Editor, Plant Systematics and Evolution
1998-            Editorial Board, International Journal of Plant Science
1997-06        Associate Editor, American Journal of Botany
1995-99        Senior Editor, Molecular Ecology
1992-94        Editorial Board, Evolutionary Trends in Plants
1987-93        Editorial Board, Aliso