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| Peter Holland is the Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, UK. After a degree in Zoology at Oxford, and a PhD in Genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, he took a junior faculty position in the Department of Zoology at Oxford and later a Royal Society Research Fellowship. In 1994, he moved to the University of Reading to become Professor of Zoology, before retuning to Oxford to take his present post in 2002. His research focuses on homeobox gene evolution, comparative genomics, gene duplication and molecular phylogenetics. His research group cloned and mapped the Hox gene cluster in amphioxus, characterized gene duplication in vertebrate evolution and discovered the ParaHox gene cluster. Peter Holland was awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1996), the De Snoo van't Hoogerhuis Medal (1999) and the Genetics Society Medal (2004). He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2003. |
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