Professor
Lorna Ann Casselton FRS (born Lorna Ann Smith in 18 July 1938 in
RochfordRochford is a small town in the Rochford district of Essex in the East of England. It is sited about 43 miles from Central London and approximately 21 miles from the Essex county town, Chelmsford...
) is Emeritus Professor of Fungal
GeneticsGenetics, , a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding...
in the Department of
Plant ScienceBotany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development...
at
University of OxfordThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
.
She attended
Southend High School for GirlsSouthend High School for Girls is a grammar school situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of Southend-on-Sea, England. It has students from the ages 11 through to 18 years old. The current headteacher is Mrs A.D...
. From
University College LondonUniversity College London is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London...
, she gained a
BScA Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years ....
from
University College LondonUniversity College London is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London...
and a
PhDDoctor of Philosophy, abbreviated PhD , for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", or alternatively, DPhil, for the equivalent , is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities...
in 1964.
She was Professor of Genetics at
Queen Mary, University of LondonQueen Mary, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London...
from 1989-91. She gained her Oxford professorship in 1997.
On 30 November 2006, she was appointed Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the
Royal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence...
replacing Professor Dame
Julia HigginsDame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London....
.
She married Peter Casselton in 1961, divorcing in 1978.
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Professor
Lorna Ann Casselton FRS (born Lorna Ann Smith in 18 July 1938 in
RochfordRochford is a small town in the Rochford district of Essex in the East of England. It is sited about 43 miles from Central London and approximately 21 miles from the Essex county town, Chelmsford...
) is Emeritus Professor of Fungal
GeneticsGenetics, , a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding...
in the Department of
Plant ScienceBotany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development...
at
University of OxfordThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
.
Early life
She attended
Southend High School for GirlsSouthend High School for Girls is a grammar school situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of Southend-on-Sea, England. It has students from the ages 11 through to 18 years old. The current headteacher is Mrs A.D...
. From
University College LondonUniversity College London is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London...
, she gained a
BScA Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years ....
from
University College LondonUniversity College London is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury, London...
and a
PhDDoctor of Philosophy, abbreviated PhD , for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", or alternatively, DPhil, for the equivalent , is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities...
in 1964.
Career
She was Professor of Genetics at
Queen Mary, University of LondonQueen Mary, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London...
from 1989-91. She gained her Oxford professorship in 1997.
Recognition
On 30 November 2006, she was appointed Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the
Royal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence...
replacing Professor Dame
Julia HigginsDame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London....
.
Personal life
She married Peter Casselton in 1961, divorcing in 1978. She then married William Tollett in 1981.