Loren H. Rieseberg

Loren H. Rieseberg
Fields	botany
Institutions	University of British Columbia, Indiana University
Alma mater	Washington State University
Notable awards	2003 MacArthur Fellows Program 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal

Loren H. Rieseberg is a Canadian-American botanist. 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]

He graduated from Washington State University, with a Ph.D. in 1987.

Awards

• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2012 Darwin–Wallace Medal^[4]

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.

References

1. http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=lriesebe
2. http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/rieseberg.html
3. http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/rieseberglab/people/biog.html
4. "Medals and Prizes". The Linnean Society of London. Retrieved 2013-02-01.

External links

• "Loren H. Rieseberg", Scientific Commons