Philip Donoghue
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Philip Donoghue in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
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| Born | Philip Conrad James Donoghue April 5, 1971 [1] Morriston, Wales[2] |
| Residence | England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Palaeontology |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
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| Thesis | Architecture, growth, and function of ozarkodinid conodonts (1996) |
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Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS[1] is a British palaeontologist[4] and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol.[5][6][7]
Education
Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 1992[2] and PhD in Paleontology in 1997 for research supervised by Richard Aldridge and Mark Purnell.[3] He also holds a Master of Science degree in palynology from the University of Sheffield.[2]
Research
Donoghue's research[8] focuses on major transitions in evolutionary history, including the origin and early evolution of vertebrates, animals, and plants.[1] He has been influential in developing a ‘molecular palaeobiology’ in which evidence from living and fossil species, anatomy and molecular biology, phylogenetics and developmental biology, can be integrated to achieve a more holistic understanding of evolutionary history. He introduced synchrotron tomography to palaeontology,[9] and has played a leading role in establishing the role of palaeontology in establishing evolutionary timescales.[1][10]
Awards and honours
Donoghue was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[1] His certificate of election reads:[11]
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Philip Donoghue is a major force in the emerging field of molecular palaeontology. His work bridges the gap between palaeobiology, developmental biology and molecular evolution in highly innovative ways. He was pioneering in first demonstrating the utility of synchrotron imaging in palaeontology and has been a world leader in driving forward our understanding of the remarkable fossil embryos from the late pre-Cambrian and Cambrian and their biological significance. His work takes developmental and genomic data constrained by the fossil record to bring new insights into large-scale evolutionary patterns and the relationship between phenotypic and gene regulatory evolution.
Donoghue has been on the Councils of the Palaeontological Society, Systematics Association, the Micropalaeontological Society and the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. His research has been recognised by the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize of the Leverhulme Trust in 2004, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society in 2007, and the President’s Medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2014.[1]
References
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