Richard Dixon (biologist)

Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of North Texas

AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences^[1]

InstitutionsUniversity of North Texas
Texas A&M University
University of Cambridge
Royal Holloway College

ThesisPhytoalexin production by plant tissue cultures (1976)

Richard Dixon FRS
Dixon in 2018
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences^[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	University of North Texas Texas A&M University University of Cambridge Royal Holloway College
Thesis	Phytoalexin production by plant tissue cultures (1976)

Website	bdi.unt.edu/richard-dixon

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]

Dixon studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973^[5] followed by a 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] His papers have been cited over 66,000 times.^[2]

From January 1, 2023 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B^[10] and he is also a member of the Editorial Board for PNAS.^[11]

Awards and honours

Dixon was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States.^[1] He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).^[2] He was elected a 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

1 2 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.
1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2018). "Professor Richard Dixon FRS". London: Royal Society. 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)
1 2 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".

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2018
Fellows	Jim Al-Khalili Polly Arnold Jillian Banfield Margaret Brimble Neil Brockdorff Frank Caruso Vincenzo Cerundolo Kevin Costello Robert Crabtree Philip Dawid Peter Dayan Richard Dixon Gregory Edgecombe Wenfei Fan Roger Goody Robin Grimes Gregory Hannon Demis Hassabis Judy Hirst Graeme Jameson Harren Jhoti Sophien Kamoun Andrew King Dimitri Kullmann Dominic Kwiatkowski Richard Marais Cathie Martin Elon Musk Peter O'Hearn Vassilis Pachnis Tracy Palmer Colin Prentice Lalita Ramakrishnan Nancy Reid Graham Richards David Richardson Sheila Rowan Ingrid Scheffer Michelle Simmons John Smol Timothy Softley John Speakman Graeme Stephens Angela Strank Charles Swanton Peter Visscher Guy Wilkinson Geordie Williamson Daniel Wise Nikolay Zheludev
Honorary	David Willetts (Baron Willetts of Havant)
Foreign	Carolyn Bertozzi Martin Chalfie Sebsebe Demissew Jeffrey Friedman Fabiola Gianotti Albrecht Hofmann Butler Lampson Tullio Pozzan Joachim Sauer Adi Shamir

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