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Andrew Scott Doran is a British/American botanist, horticulturist, and Director of Collections at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Curator of Cultivated Plants at the University and Jepson Herbaria and past Vice President of the California Botanical Society.

Career
Doran developed an interest in plants at an early age at the preparatory school, Heatherdown School, Ascot, Berkshire where students were encouraged to have gardening plots. At Charterhouse School he regularly weeded the Verite house garden. Having held positions in the management of both living and preserved plants, libraries and archives, Doran is a proponent of making collections available on-line and has launched numerous virtual collections including the Charterhouse School Herbarium and John Muir’s Herbarium. At the Internet Archive he was responsible for cataloging and transporting the ProQuest LLC microfilm serials collections (formerly University Microfilms) from Ann Arbor to the Physical Archive in Richmond, California and was instrumental in acquiring the Marygrove College Library for digitization. He presents collections digitization projects at national and international conferences.

Doran is an authority on cultivated plants and cultivated plant nomenclature, having worked for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Department of Botany for a short time before working for Denver Botanic Gardens where he was employed as a plant taxonomist and was Registrar for Nymphaeaceae. At the University of Connecticut Doran described an intersubgeneric hybrid in the genus Nymphaea. Doran currently manages one of the world’s best documented living collections of plants with over 12,000 species and teaches occasional classes in using natural history collections for research.

Personal life
Doran lives in the East Bay in California and volunteers at the Carquinez Regional Education and Environment Center.