Dr. Elizabeth Lord
Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences
Responsibilities
As Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, she has final authority on faculty merit review files and all non-senate academic personnel files; she works with the Academic Personnel Office on all academic approvals, and is responsible for changes to the Call, Chair forums, and other aspects of Faculty Development.
Biography
Professor Elizabeth Lord earned the BA Degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts in 1972 and the Ph.D. in Botany at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. After a brief postdoctoral appointment at University of California, Davis, she joined the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences in 1978. Dr. Lord’s research area is plant cell and developmental biology and she had been funded by NSF’s Developmental Mechanisms Program since 1980. Her work on the mechanisms of fertilization in flowering plants has earned her a national award from the Botanical Society of America. Dr. Lord has served as a Chair of Dept of BPS (1997-2000) after a year as Vice Chair in charge of graduate student affairs. During that time, she co-developed the interdepartmental graduate program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology. Dr. Lord serves on several editorial boards in her field and on NSF review panels. On campus she has chaired the Senate Committee on Academic Personnel and the Committee on Academic Freedom. She served on the Chancellor’s Advisory committee on the Life and Agricultural Sciences and the Graduate Program Developmental Committee. In 1998 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 2003-2005 she was Associate Dean in the Graduate Division.
| Contact Information | |
| Vice Provost for Academic Personnel Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor 365 Surge Building University of California Riverside, CA 92521 Office: (951) 827-2304 Fax: (951) 827-6226 E-mail: lordvp@ucr.edu |
Professor of Botany and Developmental Biologist Center for Plant Cell Biology Department of Botany and Plant Sciences 3118 Batchelor Hall University of California Riverside, CA 92521 Office: (951) 827-4441 Fax: (951) 827-4437 E-mail: lord@ucr.edu |
Education
BA Biology 1972- University of Massachusetts
PhD Botany 1978- University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas
My interests are in plant developmental biology, with an emphasis on flower organ growth and pollination. A major focus now is the role of the gynoecium in pollination. Our model is that adhesion events between the pollen tube, which carries the sperm cells, and the style facilitate tube cell guidance to the ovary and then fertilization. We have isolated the adhesion molecules from the style using an in vitro adhesion assay that mimics the in vivo interaction between the pollen tube and the style. An exciting new discovery is the lily stigma molecule involved in guiding pollen tubes into the style. This small protein, name Chemocyanin, was discovered using as in vitro chemotropism assay. It is the first chemotropic peptide described for plants (PNAS 2003 100:16125-16130). Our research has been supported by funds from NSF, Developmental Mechanisms since 1980.
Academic Appointments
2005- Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, UC Riverside
2003-2005 Associate Dean Graduate Division, UC Riverside
1997-2000 Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
1996-1997 Vice Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
1994-1995 Chair, Committee on Academic Personnel
1989- Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
1984-1989 Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
1978-1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
Selected Honors and Professional Activities (since 1989)
2005-2006 Member, Editorial Board of Plant Physiology, Monitoring Editor
1998-2006 Member, Advisory Board of Journal, Plant Molecular Biology
1998-2004 Member, Advisory Board of Journal, Protoplasma
1998 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1997 Women Who Make a Difference Award, from the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
1997, 2000, Member, National Science Foundation Developmental Mechanisms Panel
2005
2000 Member, National Science Foundation IGERT Proposal Selection Panel
1994-2004 Member, Editorial Board of Review Journal, Advances in Botanical Research, Academic Press, London
1994- Member, Editorial Board of University of California Publications in Botany
1989 Recipient of the Pelton Award, Botanical Society of America