Richard Harland (biologist)

Richard M. Harland FRS[3][4] is CH Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Richard Harland

FRS
Born
Richard M. Harland
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisControl of chromosomal replication (1980)
Doctoral advisorRon Laskey
Websitemcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/harlandr.html

Education

Harland completed his PhD at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Ron Laskey on regulation of DNA replication in Xenopus embryos.[1][5]

Career and research

Following postdoctoral work at the LMB and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Harold M. Weintraub and Steve McKnight in Seattle he moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1985.[3][1]

Harland's research aims to understand early developmental biology of vertebrates at the molecular level. Major contributions include understanding the early embryo, and the induction and patterning of the neural plate and the Spemann-Mangold organizer.[3][6]

Awards and honours

Harland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[7] He was also elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2014.[1]

References
  1. Anon (2014). "Richard Harland NAS profile". nasonline.org. Washington D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23.
  2. Richard Harland publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. Anon (2019). "Professor Richard Harland FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “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)
  4. Richard Harland publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. Harland, Richard M. (1980). Control of chromosomal replication. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 556502145. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.256803.
  6. Zimmerman, Lyle B; De Jesús-Escobar, José M; Harland, Richard M (1996). "The Spemann Organizer Signal noggin Binds and Inactivates Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4". Cell. 86 (4): 599–606. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80133-6. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 8752214.
  7. Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
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