Professor Beverley Glover

  • • Head of Evolution and Development
  • • Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Available to supervise doctoral students
Professor Beverley Glover

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Beverley Glover is Head of Evolution and Development at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Previous Positions

2013 to present - Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - Cambridge, England

2013 to present - Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution - University of Cambridge, England

2010 to 2013 - Reader in Evolution and Development - University of Cambridge, England

1999 to 2010 - Senior Lecturer in Plant Molecular Genetics - University of Cambridge, England

1996 to 1999 - Research Fellow - Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, England

Qualifications

1993 to 1996 - PhD in Plant Development - John Innes Centre, Norwich, England

1989 to 1993 - BSc in Plant and Environmental Biology - University of St Andrews, Scotland

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Awards & Fellowships

2021 - Pilkington Prize for Teaching - University of Cambridge

2022 - Best Lecturer 2022 - Cambridge University Students Union Student Led Teaching Award

2010 - William Bate Hardy Prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

2009 - British Ecological Society Marsh Book of the Year Award

Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal

Committees

Council Member - European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Patron - Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust

Vice-President - Cambridgeshire Beekeepers’ Association

Member - Editorial Board of Current Biology

Member - Advisory Board of New Phytologist

Member - Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Member - NERC peer review college

Member - Science Advisory Committee of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

Member - Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Public Engagement

The group is involved in a number of projects that explain pollination and the relationships between plants and animals to a wider audience. See more

Research

Research Group

Evolution and Development

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Research Overview

My main area of interest is the evolution and development of floral features that attract pollinating animals. I’m keen to approach questions of floral evolution in an integrative way, combining molecular genetic approaches to understand floral development with functional analyses using bumblebees and other pollinators. Where possible, these projects are carried out with regards to the phylogenetic context.

School of Biological Sciences Theme Affiliations

Organisms, Evolution and Ecology

Publications

Selected publications

Multiple gene co-options underlie the rapid evolution of sexually deceptive flowers in Gorteria diffusa 23 March 2023 Current Biology Roman T Kellenberger, Udhaya Ponraj, Boris Delahaie, Róisín Fattorini, Janneke Balk, Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Karin H Müller, Allan G Ellis & Beverley J Glover Cuticle chemistry drives the development of diffraction gratings on the surface of Hibiscus trionum petals 23 November 2022 Current Biology Edwige Moyroud, Chiara A. Airoldi, Jordan Ferria, Chiara Giorio, Sarah S Steimer, Paula J Rudall, Christina J Prychid, Shannon Halliwell, Joseph F Walker, Sarah Robinson, Markus Kalberer & Beverley J Glover Mechanical buckling can pattern the light-diffracting cuticle of Hibiscus trionum 14 September 2021 Cell Reports Chiara A Airoldi, Carlos A Lugo, Raymond Wightman, Beverley J Glover & Sarah Robinson TTG1 proteins regulate circadian activity as well as epidermal cell fate and pigmentation 11 September 2019 Nature Plants Chiara A Airoldi, Timothy J Hearn, Samuel F Brockington, Alex A R Webb & Beverley J Glover Understanding Flowers and Flowering, Second Edition Book 2 January 2014 Oxford University Press Academic Beverley Glover

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part IA Evolution and Behaviour

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part IB Plant and Microbial Science

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part II Plant Sciences on the Natural Sciences Tripos

Postgraduate MPhil in Biological Sciences (Developmental Biology) by advanced study