George Coupland

George Coupland
Born	(1959-12-20) 20 December 1959 (age 65)[2] Dumfries, Scotland
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow
Spouse	Jane E. Parker
Scientific career
Fields	Biology[1]
Thesis	The conjugation system and insertion sequences of the IncN plasmid R46 (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Neil Willetts Richard Hayward David Finnegan
Website	www.mpipz.mpg.de/10586/coupland-dpt

George Michael Coupland FRS (born 20 December 1959, in Dumfries) is a Scottish plant scientist, and Research Scientist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Education

Coupland earned a First Class Honours from University of Glasgow in 1981, and PhD from University of Edinburgh in 1984.[2][8][9]

Career and research

He was postdoctoral researcher at University of Cologne from 1985 to 1988. He was Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, University of Cambridge, from 1989 to 1990. He was Research Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, from 1990 to 2001.[10]

With Liam Dolan, Nicholas Harberd, Alison Mary Smith, Cathie Martin, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the undergraduate textbook Plant Biology.[5]

Awards and honours

Coupland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2007[11] and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in May 2012.[12]

Personal life

He is married to British botanist Jane E. Parker.[13][2]

References

1. George Coupland publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. "COUPLAND, George". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. "Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne - Control of Flowering Time". Archived from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
4. FromSEB, Kate. "Fellowship of the Royal Society". Sebiology.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
5. Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 978-0815340256.
6. John lnnes Centre (2001). John lnnes Centre & Sainsbury Laboratory Annual Report 2001. Norwich, England: The Centre.
7. George Coupland delivers the SEB's 2014 Woolhouse Lecture on YouTube Society for Experimental Biology
8. George Coupland's ORCID 0000-0001-6988-4172
9. Coupland, George Michael (1984). The conjugation system and insertion sequences of the IncN plasmid R46 (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/12011. OCLC 59322492.
10. "Coupland, George". Mpg.de. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
11. "Fellows". royalsociety.org. The Royal Society. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
12. "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. 1 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012.
13. John lnnes Centre 2001, p. 41.