Researchers in developmental biology, stem cells, and plant biology

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A. Harvey Millar

A. Harvey Millar, born 1971, is an Australian plant biochemist and molecular biologist at The University of Western Australia, known for plant mitochondrial proteomics and the SUBA database.

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Adolf Engler

Adolf Engler (1844–1930) was a German botanist and plant geographer who directed the Berlin-Dahlem botanical garden and created the most widely accepted classification of all plants.

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Adrian S. Woolf

Adrian S. Woolf is a British clinician-scientist in pediatric nephrology at the University of Manchester who studies congenital abnormalities of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder.

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Adrien Burlacot

Adrien Burlacot is a French algal physiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, known for a 2022 Nature paper on algal CO2 concentration.

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Adrienne E. Clarke

Adrienne E. Clarke (born 6 January 1938, Melbourne) is an Australian plant molecular biologist, the first female Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, who chaired CSIRO and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

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Alain Goossens

Alain Goossens, born 1971, is a Belgian plant molecular biologist, senior full professor at Ghent University and VIB group leader known for research on jasmonate signaling and plant specialized metabolites.

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Alan Lloyd

Alan Lloyd, also known as Alan M. Lloyd, is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on plant cell fate and pigments.

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Alan R. Kimmel

Alan R. Kimmel is an American cell biologist who leads a development section at the NIH's NIDDK, studying Dictyostelium signaling and the perilipin proteins of lipid droplets.

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Albert Charles Seward

Albert Charles Seward (1863–1941) was a British botanist and geologist, Cambridge Professor of Botany and Master of Downing College, and the leading figure in palaeobotany for almost four decades.

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Albert Charles Smith

Albert Charles Smith (1906–1999) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist who studied the flowering plants of South America and Fiji and wrote the five-volume Flora Vitiensis Nova.

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Albert Frey-Wyssling

Albert Frey-Wyssling (1900–1988) was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology, inferring plant cell fine structure before the electron microscope, and was professor of general botany at ETH Zurich from 1938 to 1970.

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Albert Joyce Riker

Albert Joyce Riker (1894–1982) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for his research on crown gall tumors and plant tissue culture.

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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Venezuelan-born developmental biologist who studies animal regeneration using planarian flatworms, and is President of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.

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Alex Shigo

Alex Shigo (1930–2006), USDA Forest Service pathologist dubbed father of modern arboriculture; CODIT four-wall decay model, branch collar pruning, dissection of ~10,000 trees, Shigometer.

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Alex Webb (plant biologist)

Alex A. R. Webb is a plant biologist who leads the Circadian Signal Transduction Group at the University of Cambridge and proposed chronoculture, timing agriculture by the plant clock.

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Alexander Braun

Alexander Braun (1805–1877) was a German botanist, professor at the University of Berlin from 1851, remembered as a founder of the mathematical study of phyllotaxis.

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Alexander Gurwitsch

Alexander Gurwitsch (Александр Гурвич) was a Russian and Soviet embryologist who introduced the morphogenetic field concept into biology and claimed in 1923 to have discovered mitogenetic radiation.

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Alexander Meissner

Alexander Meissner is a German epigeneticist known for mapping DNA methylation who directs the Department of Genome Regulation at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.

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Alexandra L. Joyner

Alexandra L. Joyner is a Canadian developmental neuroscientist and mouse geneticist who built genetic tools for studying mouse brain development and the childhood tumor medulloblastoma at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

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Alfonso Martínez Arias

Alfonso Martínez Arias is a Spanish developmental biologist who spent 37 years at the University of Cambridge and is now an ICREA Research Professor in Barcelona, known for gastruloids, stem-cell models of mammalian gastrulation.

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Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou

Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou, also published as Ali H. Brivanlou, is an Iranian-born American developmental biologist at Rockefeller University known for the default model of neural induction.

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Alice Barkan

Alice Barkan is an American molecular biologist who spent her faculty career at the University of Oregon, studying chloroplast gene expression and PPR RNA-binding proteins; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

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Alice Y. Cheung

Alice Y. Cheung is a plant molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on pollen-pistil interactions and FERONIA signaling.

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Alistair M. Hetherington

Alistair M. Hetherington, also published as A. M. Hetherington, is a plant scientist and Melville Wills Professor of Botany, Emeritus, at the University of Bristol.

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Allan Spradling

Allan C. Spradling is an American developmental biologist and geneticist who developed P-element transformation in fruit flies and discovered the first stem cell niche in the Drosophila ovary.

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Allen Kerr (plant pathologist)

Allen Kerr (1926–2023) was a Scottish-born Australian plant pathologist at the University of Adelaide whose crown gall work enabled biological control and plant genetic engineering.

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Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle

Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist, born in Paris in 1806, who directed the Geneva botanical gardens and wrote the 1855 Géographie botanique raisonnée.

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Amander Clark

Amander Clark is an Australian-born American stem cell biologist at UCLA, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology and founding director of its Center for Reproductive Science, Health, and Education.

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Amos Tanay

Amos Tanay (עמוס תנעי) is an Israeli computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot who studies epigenetics and gene regulation by combining computational models with single-cell genomics.

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Amy Ralston

Amy Ralston is an American developmental biologist and professor at Michigan State University known for work on Cdx2 and the first cell fate decision in the mouse embryo.