Jane A. Langdale

Jane Langdale

Jane Langdale in 2015, portrait from the Royal Society
Born Jane Alison Langdale
(1960-08-25) 25 August 1960[1]
Coventry[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Gene detection using immobilized DNA probes (1985)
Doctoral students
  • Debbie Alexander
  • Armando Bravo-Garcia[3]
  • Dave Fitter
  • Jim Fouracre[4]
  • Anne Francis
  • Eftychios Frangedakis[5]
  • Matt Hodges[6][7]
  • Ruairidh Sawers
  • Yuki Yasumura[8]
Notable awards

Website

Jane Alison Langdale (born 1960)[1] FRS[11] is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.[12] and a Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford.[13][14][15][16][17]

Education

Langdale was educated at Barr's Hill Grammar School in Coventry[1][13] and the University of Bath, where she was awarded an Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Biology.[13] Her PhD was in human genetics and carried out at St Mary's Hospital Medical School[13] and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School.[18][19] and awarded by the University of London.[20]

Career

Following her PhD, Langdale was employed for five years as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University with Tim Nelson.[21] She returned to the UK in 1990, to work in the Department of Plant Sciences where she has worked since.

Research

Langdale's research interests are in two main areas:

  1. the evolution of leaf development and meristem function in bryophytes, lycophytes and monilophytes
  2. the evolution and development of kranz anatomy in C4 plants,[22] especially rice.[23]

Langdale's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)[24] and has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature,[25] Science,[26] Current Opinion in Plant Biology,[23] Development,[27] Gene,[18] Trends in Genetics,[28]The Plant Cell,[29][30][31] the Annual Review of Plant Biology,[32] Planta,[33] Plant Physiology,[34] the Journal of Cell Science,[35] The EMBO Journal,[36] The Plant Journal, PLOS ONE[37] Genes & Development[2] and the New Phytologist.[38][39][40]

Langdale is the co-author of the book How to Succeed as a Scientist: From Postdoc to Professor[41] with materials scientist Barbara Gabrys. She featured on the BBC series, Plants: From Roots to Riches in 2014 with Kathy Willis.[42][43]

Awards and honours

Langdale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[11] Her certificate of election reads:

“ Jane Langdale has produced a body of work that has transformed our understanding of how plants make leaves and how leaves changed during major evolutionary transitions. The breadth of her research program has led to the elucidation of mechanisms operating throughout leaf development – from the earliest stages of organ inception and specification at the shoot apex, through patterning of distinct cell-types, to chloroplast biogenesis. She has done all of this in a comparative framework and has thus advanced our understanding of leaf development not just in model flowering plant species but in species from all major land plant lineages.[10] ”

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 LANGDALE, Prof. Jane Alison. Who's Who 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Langdale, J A; Rothermel, B A; Nelson, T (1988). "Cellular pattern of photosynthetic gene expression in developing maize leaves.". Genes & Development 2 (1): 106–115. doi:10.1101/gad.2.1.106. ISSN 0890-9369.
  3. ↑ Bravo-Garcia, Armando (2008). Regulation of chloroplast development in diverse plant species (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 421769580.
  4. ↑ Fouracre, Jim P. (2013). Genetic regulation of Kranz anatomy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  5. ↑ "People in the Langdale Laboratory". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
  6. ↑ Hodges, Matthew Edmiston (2011). The evolution of eukaryotic cilia (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  7. ↑ Hodges, M. E.; Wickstead, B; Gull, K; Langdale, J. A. (2011). "Conservation of ciliary proteins in plants with no cilia". BMC Plant Biology 11: 185. doi:10.1186/1471-2229-11-185. PMC 3268115. PMID 22208660.
  8. ↑ Yasumura, Yuki (2004). Conserved regulation of chloroplast development in Physcomitrella patens and higher plants (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 421769580.
  9. ↑ http://people.embo.org/profile/jane-langdale
  10. 1 2 "Professor Jane Langdale FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-06.
  11. 1 2 "Professor Jane Langdale FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  12. ↑ Jane Langdale's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Jane Langdale, The Queen's College". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2014-02-18.
  14. ↑ "Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. JA Langdale". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2013-08-30.
  15. ↑ "Jane Langdale Lab, Department of Plant Sciences". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2014-08-15.
  16. ↑ Interview with Jane Langdale, conference chair The EMBO Meeting 2011 on YouTube
  17. ↑ Ethics and plant science -- improving food yields in a changing environment with Jane Langdale on YouTube
  18. 1 2 Langdale, J. A.; Malcolm, A. D. B. (1985). "A rapid method of gene detection using DNA bound to Sephacryl". Gene 36 (3): 201–210. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(85)90175-1.
  19. ↑ Malcolm, A. D.; Fallon, R. A.; Langdale, J. A.; Figueiredo, H; Nicholls, P. J.; Voss, U. B.; Wickenden, C; Woodhead, J. L. (1987). "DNA probes in human disease". Biochemical Society symposium 53: 131–43. PMID 3332764.
  20. ↑ Langdale, Jane Alison (1985). Gene detection using immobilized DNA probes (PhD thesis). University of London. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
  21. ↑ Langdale, J. A.; Rothermel, B. A.; Nelson, T. (1988). "Cellular pattern of photosynthetic gene expression in developing maize leaves". Genes & Development 2: 106–115. doi:10.1101/gad.2.1.106.
  22. ↑ Langdale, J. A. (2011). "C4 cycles: Past, present, and future research on C4 photosynthesis". The Plant Cell 23 (11): 3879–92. doi:10.1105/tpc.111.092098. PMC 3246324. PMID 22128120.
  23. 1 2 Hibberd, J. M.; Sheehy, J. E.; Langdale, J. A. (2008). "Using C4 photosynthesis to increase the yield of rice—rationale and feasibility". Current Opinion in Plant Biology 11 (2): 228–231. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2007.11.002. PMID 18203653.
  24. ↑ "UK Government research grants awarded to Jane Langdale". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2015-05-06.
  25. ↑ Harrison, C. J.; Corley, S. B.; Moylan, E. C.; Alexander, D. L.; Scotland, R. W.; Langdale, J. A. (2005). "Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution". Nature 434 (7032): 509–14. doi:10.1038/nature03410. PMID 15791256.
  26. ↑ Tsiantis, M; Schneeberger, R; Golz, J. F.; Freeling, M; Langdale, J. A. (1999). "The maize rough sheath2 gene and leaf development programs in monocot and dicot plants". Science 284 (5411): 154–6. doi:10.1126/science.284.5411.154. PMID 10102817.
  27. ↑ Schneeberger, R; Tsiantis, M; Freeling, M; Langdale, J. A. (1998). "The rough sheath2 gene negatively regulates homeobox gene expression during maize leaf development". Development (Cambridge, England) 125 (15): 2857–65. PMID 9655808.
  28. ↑ Langdale, J. A.; Nelson, T. (1991). "Spatial regulation of photosynthetic development in C4 plants". Trends in Genetics 7 (6): 191–6. doi:10.1016/0168-9525(91)90435-S. PMID 1906211.
  29. ↑ Waters, M. T.; Wang, P; Korkaric, M; Capper, R. G.; Saunders, N. J.; Langdale, J. A. (2009). "GLK transcription factors coordinate expression of the photosynthetic apparatus in Arabidopsis". THE PLANT CELL ONLINE 21 (4): 1109–28. doi:10.1105/tpc.108.065250. PMC 2685620. PMID 19376934.
  30. ↑ Nelson, T; Langdale, J. A. (1989). "Patterns of leaf development in C4 plants". THE PLANT CELL ONLINE 1 (1): 3–13. doi:10.1105/tpc.1.1.3. PMC 159732. PMID 2535465.
  31. ↑ Rossini, L; Cribb, L; Martin, D. J.; Langdale, J. A. (2001). "The maize golden2 gene defines a novel class of transcriptional regulators in plants". The Plant cell 13 (5): 1231–44. doi:10.1105/tpc.13.5.1231. PMC 135554. PMID 11340194.
  32. ↑ Nelson, T.; Langdale, J. A. (1992). "Developmental Genetics of C4 Photosynthesis". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 43: 25–47. doi:10.1146/annurev.pp.43.060192.000325.
  33. ↑ Wang, P; Fouracre, J; Kelly, S; Karki, S; Gowik, U; Aubry, S; Shaw, M. K.; Westhoff, P; Slamet-Loedin, I. H.; Quick, W. P.; Hibberd, J. M.; Langdale, J. A. (2013). "Evolution of GOLDEN2-LIKE gene function in C3 and C4 plants". Planta 237 (2): 481–95. doi:10.1007/s00425-012-1754-3. PMC 3555242. PMID 22968911.
  34. ↑ Tolley, B. J.; Sage, T. L.; Langdale, J. A.; Hibberd, J. M. (2012). "Individual maize chromosomes in the C3 plant oat can increase bundle sheath cell size and vein density". Plant Physiology 159 (4): 1418–27. doi:10.1104/pp.112.200584. PMC 3425187. PMID 22675083.
  35. ↑ Hodges, M. E.; Scheumann, N; Wickstead, B; Langdale, J. A.; Gull, K (2010). "Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the centriole from protein components". Journal of Cell Science 123 (Pt 9): 1407–13. doi:10.1242/jcs.064873. PMC 2858018. PMID 20388734.
  36. ↑ Langdale, J. A.; Zelitch, I; Miller, E; Nelson, T (1988). "Cell position and light influence C4 versus C3 patterns of photosynthetic gene expression in maize". The EMBO Journal 7 (12): 3643–51. PMC 454936. PMID 2850171.
  37. ↑ Saint-Marcoux, D; Proust, H; Dolan, L; Langdale, J. A. (2015). "Identification of Reference Genes for Real-Time Quantitative PCR Experiments in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha". PLOS ONE 10 (3): e0118678. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118678. PMC 4370483. PMID 25798897.
  38. ↑ Sanders, H. L.; Langdale, J. A. (2013). "Conserved transport mechanisms but distinct auxin responses govern shoot patterning in Selaginella kraussiana". New Phytologist 198 (2): 419–28. doi:10.1111/nph.12183. PMID 23421619.
  39. ↑ Hodges, M. E.; Wickstead, B; Gull, K; Langdale, J. A. (2012). "The evolution of land plant cilia". New Phytologist 195 (3): 526–40. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04197.x. PMID 22691130.
  40. ↑ Bravo-Garcia, A; Yasumura, Y; Langdale, J. A. (2009). "Specialization of the Golden2-like regulatory pathway during land plant evolution". New Phytologist 183 (1): 133–41. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02829.x. PMID 19383092.
  41. ↑ Gabrys, Barbara; Langdale, Jane (2012). How to succeed as a scientist : from postdoc to professor. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-18683-8.
  42. ↑ Willis, K. J. (2014). Kew and BBC Radio 4. London: John Murray. ISBN 1444798235.
  43. ↑ "Plants: From Roots to Riches, Towards the Light". London: BBC.
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