Caroline Dean

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Caroline Dean
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Born (1957-04-02) 2 April 1957 (age 67)[1]
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Alma mater University of York (BSc, DPhil)[2]
Thesis Investigations of genome expression in young wheat leaves (1983)
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  • Susan Duncan
  • Robert Ietswaart
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Spouse Jonathan D. G. Jones (m. 1991)[1]
Children one son, one daughter[1][7]
Website
www.jic.ac.uk/staff/caroline-dean

Professor Caroline Dean OBE, FRS[5] is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre on the molecular control of timing of flowering in plants.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Education

Dean was educated at the University of York, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1978 and a DPhil[2] in 1982.[4][16]

Research

Dean's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council[17] and focuses on:

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"the timing of the transition to reproductive development in plants. The acceleration of flowering by prolonged cold is a classic epigenetic process called vernalization. The study of this and parallel genetic pathways has led us into the dissection of conserved chromatin silencing mechanisms involving non-coding RNAs. Our recent work has focused on a mechanistic understanding of vernalization and on the pathways that determine a requirement for vernalization. These pathways converge on a gene that encodes a floral repressor called FLC. We analyse how these pathways intersect during development, in different environmental conditions, and through evolution. This takes us into the analysis of what regulates reproductive strategy in plants. We use Arabidopsis as a reference to establish the regulatory hierarchy and then translate our findings into other species."[16]

Awards

In 2004 Dean became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2008 the United States National Academy of Sciences elected her a foreign fellow. Her nomination for the Royal Society reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Dean has made outstanding contributions in the study of developmental timing in plants. Her work has revealed the mechanism by which plants remember they have experienced winter, demonstrated novel RNA processing mechanisms controlling flowering and determined the molecular basis of natural variation in Arabidopsis flowering time. Her discoveries have broad significance in the fields of epigenetics, post-transcriptional regulation and molecular evolution. Dean has also made a massive contribution to the development of Arabidopsis as a model, establishing resources for genetic mapping and insertional mutagenesis, and providing physical maps that underpinned the sequencing of the genome.[5]

Personal life

Dean is married to Jonathan D. G. Jones and has one son and one daughter.[1][7]

References

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  11. ↑ Caroline Dean's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  15. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
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  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., via Research Councils UK
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