George Michael Coupland FRS (born 20 December 1959, in

Dumfries Dumfries ( ; ; from ) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, from the Anglo-Scottish border. Dumfries is the county town of the Counties of Scotland, ...

) is a Scottish plant scientist, and Research Scientist and Director of the

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Education

Coupland earned a

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from

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in 1981, and PhD from

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 1984.

Career and research

He was

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from 1985 to 1988. He was Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute,

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, from 1989 to 1990. He was Research Group Leader at the

John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and B ...

, from 1990 to 2001. With

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, Nicholas Harberd, Alison Mary Smith,

Cathie Martin Catherine Rosemary Martin (born April 1955) is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, co-ordinating research into the relationship between diet and health and ho ...

Jonathan D. G. Jones Jonathan Dallas George Jones (born 14 July 1954) is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and a professor at the University of East Anglia using molecular and genetic approaches to study disease resistance in plants. Education Jones ...

, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the undergraduate textbook ''Plant Biology''.

Awards and honours

Coupland was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in May 2007 and a foreign associate of the

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in May 2012.

Personal life

He is married to British botanist Jane E. Parker.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coupland, George 1959 births Living people Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of East Anglia Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences People from Dumfries Max Planck Institute directors