Loren H. Rieseberg

American botanist

University of British Columbia
Indiana University

Websitewww.botany.ubc.ca/people/loren-rieseberg

Loren H. Rieseberg FRSC FRS FRSB (born 1961) is a Canadian-American botanist.

Born in Alberta, Canada, his family moved to the US. He graduated from Washington State University with a Ph.D. in 1987.

He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University,^[1]^[2] and head of the Rieseberg Lab.^[3]^[4] In October 2016, he was appointed the Director of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, replacing Sally Otto.^[5] He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has edited Molecular Ecology for many years.^[2]^[6]

Honours and awards

1998 David Starr Jordan Prize^[7]^[2]
2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
2010 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London,^[8] Royal Society of Canada and Society of Biology^[7]
2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal^[9]

Works

Rieseberg, L.H., and J.H. Willis. "Plant speciation". 2007. Science 317:910-914.
Rieseberg, L.H., T.E. Wood, and E. Baack. 2006. "The nature of plant species". Nature 440:524-527.
Harter, A.V., K.A. Gardner, D. Falush, D.L. Lentz, R. Bye, L.H. Rieseberg. 2004. "Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America". Nature 430:201-205.
Burke, J.M., and L.H. Rieseberg. 2003. "The fitness effects of transgenic disease resistance in wild sunflowers". Science 300:1250.
Rieseberg, L.H., O. Raymond, D.M. Rosenthal, Z. Lai, K. Livingstone, T. Nakazato, J.L. Durphy, A.E. Schwarzbach, L.A. Donovan, and C. Lexer. 2003. "Major ecological transitions in annual sunflowers facilitated by hybridization". Science 301:1211-1216.
Rieseberg, L. H., A. Widmer, M. A. Arntz, and J. M. Burke. 2002. "Directional selection is the primary cause of phenotypic diversification". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12242-12245.

The standard author abbreviation Rieseberg is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[10]

References

^ "Loren Rieseberg". Department of Botany, Faculty of Science. UBC. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Loren H. Rieseberg". Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013.
^ "The Rieseberg lab - Plant Evolutionary Genomics". Department of Botany, University of British Columbia. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
^ "Loren Rieseberg: Biographical Information". Department of Botany, University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
^ "Loren Rieseberg appointed director of UBC Biodiversity Research Centre". UBC Science. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ "Molecular Ecology". Wiley Online Library. ISSN 1365-294X. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
^ ^a ^b R. Larry Peterson, Barry J. Shelp, and Christian R. Lacroix (July 2011). "Honouring Dr. Loren H. Rieseberg". Botany. 89 (7): iii. doi:10.1139/b11-035.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Loren Reiseberg biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
^ "Medals and Prizes". The Linnean Society of London. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
^ International Plant Names Index. Rieseberg.