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Julian Hibberd

Julian Michael Hibberd (born December 1969)[6] is a Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2][1]

Julian Hibberd
BornDecember 1969 (age 54)[6]
Alma materUniversity of Wales, Bangor (BSc, PhD)
AwardsBBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (2000), Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallist (2005), The Melvin Calvin Award, International Society of Photosynthesis Research (2007) [1]
Scientific career
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Institutions
ThesisEffects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (1994)
Doctoral advisor
  • John Farrar
  • Bob Whitbread
Other academic advisorsJulie Scholes, Paul Quick, John C Gray, Malcolm Press[4][5]
Website

Education

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Hibberd was educated at University of Wales, Bangor where he was awarded his first degree in 1991 followed by a PhD in 1994.[4][7][8] His PhD thesis investigated the effects of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) on powdery mildew in barley and was supervised by John Farrar and Bob Whitbread.[9]

Research and career

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Following his PhD, Hibberd completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield with Paul Quick,[10] Malcolm Press[3] and Julie Scholes,[11] investigating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts.[12][13] He moved to Cambridge to work with John C. Gray in 1997,[4][14][15] and started his own group in 2000.

The Hibberd laboratory investigates the efficiency of the C4 photosynthetic pathway, with the aim of understanding its repeated evolution and also contributing to improving crop productivity.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[23][24] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[25] the FP7 program of the European Union,[4] and the European Research Council.

Hibberd was an Associate Editor from 2012 to 2022 of the scientific journal Plant Physiology.[26]

Awards and honours

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In 2008 Hibberd was named by the journal Nature as one of "Five crop researchers who could change the world" for his research that is attempting to replace C3 carbon fixation in rice with C4 carbon fixation. This would greatly increase the efficiency of photosynthesis and create a rice cultivar which could "have 50% more yield" which "would impact billions of people".

In 2000 Hibberd was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to investigate the role of photosynthesis in veins of C3 plants.[1][12][27] In 2005 he was awarded a President's medal by the Society for Experimental Biology, and in 2007 The Melvin Calvin Award by the International Society of Photosynthesis Research.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge". emma.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  2. ^ a b Julian Hibberd publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ a b Bungard, R. A.; Ruban, A. V.; Hibberd, J. M.; Press, M. C.; Horton, P.; Scholes, J. D. (1999). "Unusual carotenoid composition and a new type of xanthophyll cycle in plants". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (3): 1135–9. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.1135B. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.3.1135. PMC 15363. PMID 9927706.  
  4. ^ a b c d "Julian Hibberd biography". hibberdlab.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  5. ^ "Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences". University of Cambridge. 3 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06.
  6. ^ a b "Julian Michael HIBBERD: December 1969". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10.
  7. ^ Hibberd, Julian Michael (1994). Effects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (PhD thesis). University of Wales, Bangor. OCLC 33848839.
  8. ^ Julian Hibberd's ORCID 0000-0003-0662-7958
  9. ^ Hibberd, J.M.; Whitbread, R.; Farrar, J.F. (1996). "Effect of elevated concentrations of CO2 on infection of barley by Erysiphe graminis". Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 48 (1): 37–53. doi:10.1006/pmpp.1996.0004.
  10. ^ "Professor W Paul Quick". Sheffield: shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-10-26.
  11. ^ "Professor Julie Scholes". Sheffield: sheffield.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04.
  12. ^ a b "President's medallists: SEB Bulletin July 2005". Society for Experimental Biology. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  13. ^ Julian Hibberd. Insights into the evolution of the C4 pathway? on YouTube , The Journal of Experimental Botany
  14. ^ "GRAY, Prof. John Clinton". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  15. ^ Knoblauch, M; Hibberd, J. M.; Gray, J. C.; Van Bel, A. J. (1999). "A galinstan expansion femtosyringe for microinjection of eukaryotic organelles and prokaryotes". Nature Biotechnology. 17 (9): 906–9. doi:10.1038/12902. PMID 10471935. S2CID 10151980.
  16. ^ "The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  17. ^ Dodd, A. N. (2005). "Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage". Science. 309 (5734): 630–633. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..630D. doi:10.1126/science.1115581. PMID 16040710. S2CID 25739247.
  18. ^ Hibberd, J. M.; Quick, W. P. (2002). "Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants" (PDF). Nature. 415 (6870): 451–454. Bibcode:2002Natur.415..451H. doi:10.1038/415451a. PMID 11807559. S2CID 4330920.
  19. ^ Millen, R. S. (2001). "Many Parallel Losses of infA from Chloroplast DNA during Angiosperm Evolution with Multiple Independent Transfers to the Nucleus". The Plant Cell Online. 13 (3): 645–658. doi:10.1105/tpc.13.3.645. PMC 135507. PMID 11251102.
  20. ^ Hibberd, J. M.; Sheehy, J. E.; Langdale, J. A. (2008). "Using C4 photosynthesis to increase the yield of rice—rationale and feasibility". Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 11 (2): 228–231. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2007.11.002. PMID 18203653.
  21. ^ Wang, Peng; Fouracre, Jim; Kelly, Steven; Karki, Shanta; Gowik, Udo; Aubry, Sylvain; Shaw, Michael K.; Westhoff, Peter; Slamet-Loedin, Inez H.; Quick, W. Paul; Hibberd, Julian M.; Langdale, Jane A. (2012). "Evolution of GOLDEN2-LIKE gene function in C3 and C4 plants". Planta. 237 (2): 481–495. doi:10.1007/s00425-012-1754-3. PMC 3555242. PMID 22968911.
  22. ^ Tolley, B. J.; Sage, T. L.; Langdale, J. A.; Hibberd, J. M. (2012). "Individual Maize Chromosomes in the C3 Plant Oat Can Increase Bundle Sheath Cell Size and Vein Density". Plant Physiology. 159 (4): 1418–1427. doi:10.1104/pp.112.200584. PMC 3425187. PMID 22675083.
  23. ^ Marris, E. (2008). "Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world". Nature. 456 (7222): 563–568. Bibcode:2008Natur.456..563M. doi:10.1038/456563a. PMID 19052600.
  24. ^ "Boosting rice yields generates optimism". southwestfarmpress.com. 2010-06-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
  25. ^ "UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  26. ^ "Plant Physiology Editorial Board". Rockville, Maryland: American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 2015-04-22.
  27. ^ "David Phillips fellows". Swindon: BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.
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