Jane Alison Langdale Federal Reserve System is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.
Education
Langdale was educated at Barr"s Hill Grammar School in Coventry and the University of Bath, where she was awarded an Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Biology. Her Doctor of Philosophy was in human genetics and carried out at Street Mary"s Hospital Medical School and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. and awarded by the University of London.
Career
And a Senior Fellow at The Queen"s College, Oxford. and awarded by the University of London. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1990, to work in the Department of Plant Sciences where she has worked since. Langdale"s research interests are in two main areas: the evolution of leaf development and meristem function in bryophytes, lycophytes and monilophytes the evolution and development of kranz anatomy in C4 plants, especially rice.
Langdale"s research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and the Natural Environment Council (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) and has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Science, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Development, Gene, Trends in Genetics,The Plant Cell, the Annual Review of Plant Biology, Planta, Plant Physiology, the Journal of Cell Science, The European Molecular Biology Organization Journal, The Plant Journal, PLOS ONE Genes & Development and the New Phytologist.
Langdale is the co-author of the book How to Succeed as a Scientist: From Postdoc to Professor with materials scientist Barbara Gabrys. She featured on the British Broadcasting Corporation series, Plants: From Roots to Riches in 2014 with Kathy Willis.