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Professor Peter W H Holland MA PhD DSc FLS FRS 

 

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Peter Holland is the Linacre Professor of Zoology, Associate Head of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, a Fellow of Merton College, and Head of the Development Research Group. He came to Oxford in 2002, following 8 years as Professor of Zoology in the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading. Previously, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow, the Browne Research Fellow and a Demonstrator in Zoology at Oxford. His research interests include evolutionary developmental biology, genome evolution, homeobox genes, and molecular phylogeny.

Peter Holland was awarded the Alexander Kowalevsky Medal (2006), Blaise Pascal Medal in Natural Sciences (2005), the inaugural Genetics Society Medal (2004), the De Snoo van 't Hoogerhuys Medal (1999) and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1996). He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2003.

Peter Holland is a Governor and Council Member of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, member of the international advisory panel for the Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Sweden (now the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences), an Honorary Research Fellow of the Natural History Museum, London, the specialist advisor on homeobox gene names for the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, associate editor of Zoological Science (Japan), a joint Section Head for Faculty of 1000, and member of the editorial boards of Evolution & Development, Molecular & Developmental Evolution, Development, Genes & Evolution and BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Forthcoming seminars

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Latest media:

Feb 2009: Australian ABC Radio (amphioxus ‘toolkit genes’): click here to listen

Feb 2009: Science blog (genomics and evolution): click here to read

June 2008: Science blog (amphioxus genome): click here to read

May 2008: Webcast lecture at Rockefeller University, New York: click here to watch

 

Publications:

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To Evolution and Development Group

To Department of Zoology, Oxford

To: HomeoDB: a database of homeobox genes

To: Nothing to do with homeobox genes for a change

Contact details

 

Professor Peter W H Holland FRS
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Tinbergen Building
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

e-mail: peter.holland@zoo.ox.ac.uk

tel: (+44) 01865-271185

fax: (+44) 01865-271184

 

 

 

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