Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of North Texas
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 .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Education
Dixon studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973[ 5] Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research on the production of Phytoalexin by plant tissue cultures .[ 6]
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? 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 .[ 2] [ 3] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 2]
From January 1, 2023 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B [ 10] PNAS [ 11]
Awards and honours
Dixon was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States .[ 1] Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).[ 2] Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[ 2]
Dixon has been recognized as a Pioneer Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists .[ 12]
References
^ a b Marino, Melissa (2008). "Profile of Richard Dixon" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (7): 2263– 2265. Bibcode :2008PNAS..105.2263M . doi :10.1073/pnas.0800273105 ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 2268123 PMID 18272484 . ^ a b c d e Anon (2018). "Professor Richard Dixon FRS" . London: Royal Society . "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
^ a b Richard Dixon publications indexed by Google Scholar ^ "Richard Dixon – Department of Biological Sciences" . biology.unt.edu .^ Anon (2015). "Interview with Richard A. Dixon". Trends in Plant Science . 20 (1): 1– 2. doi :10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.009 . ISSN 1360-1385 . PMID 25466978 . ^ Dixon, Richard A. (1976). Phytoalexin Production by Plant Tissue Cultures bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863459623 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.453717 . ^ Dixon, Richard A. (1995). "Stress-Induced Phenylpropanoid Metabolism" . The Plant Cell . 7 (7): 1085– 1097. doi :10.1105/tpc.7.7.1085 . ISSN 1040-4651 . PMC 160915 PMID 12242399 . ^ Lamb, Chris; Dixon, Richard A. (1997). "The Oxidative burst in plant disease resistance". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology . 48 (1): 251– 275. doi :10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.251 . ISSN 1040-2519 . PMID 15012264 . ^ Levine, Alex; Tenhaken, Raimund; Dixon, Richard; Lamb, Chris (1994). "H₂O₂ from the oxidative burst orchestrates the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response". Cell . 79 (4): 583– 593. doi :10.1016/0092-8674(94)90544-4 . ISSN 0092-8674 . PMID 7954825 . S2CID 1488844 . ^ "Welcoming Richard Dixon as the new Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions B" . The Royal Society . Retrieved 2 March 2023 .^ "Editorial Board | PNAS" .^ "ASPB Pioneer Members" .
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