Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
| Purpose | Research and teaching in plant biology |
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Head of Department
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Liam Dolan |
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Parent organization
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University of Oxford |
| Website | www |
The Department of Plant Sciences, at the University of Oxford, England, focusses on research and teaching in plant and fungal biology.
As of 2015[update] senior academic staff (full professors) include:
In total, the Department has:
The Department has three research groups:
The Department houses the Oxford University Herbaria that consists of two herbaria:
In total the collections contain 800,000 specimens and the department has close links with the University's Oxford Botanic Garden.
Forestry was an important part of the university under the name of the Imperial Forest Institute, from 1924, later the Commonwealth Forest Institute from 1939. The Oxford Forestry Institute was incorporated into the Department of Plant Sciences in 2002, and research relating to forestry is now undertaken under the department's name. It ran a post graduate MSc forestry course for many years: Forestry and its Relation to Land Use.
Coordinates: 51°45′32″N 1°15′09″W / 51.7590°N 1.2524°W
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