Julian Hibberd

Julian Hibberd
Born December 1969 (age 46–47)[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater University of Wales, Bangor (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Effects of elevated CO₂ on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (1994)
Doctoral advisor
  • John Farrar
  • Bob Whitbread
Other academic advisors Malcolm Press[5][6]
Notable awards BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship[3]

Website

Julian Michael Hibberd (born December 1969)[1] is a Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2][3][7]

Education

Hibberd was educated at University of Wales, Bangor where he was awarded his first degree in 1991 followed by a PhD in 1994.[5][8][9] 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.[10]

Research and career

Following his PhD, Hibberd completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield with Paul Quick,[11] Malcolm Press[4] and Julie Scholes,[12] investigating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts.[13][14] He moved to Cambridge to work with John C. Gray.[5][15][16]

As of 2016 research in the Hibberd laboratory investigates the efficiency of the C₄ photosynthetic pathway, with the aim of contributing to improving crop productivity.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[24][25] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)[26] and the FP7 program of the European Union.[5]

Hibberd is an Associate Editor of the scientific journal Plant Physiology.[27]

Awards and honours

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 Julian was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to investigate the role of photosynthesis in C3 plants[3][13][28]

References

  1. 1 2 "Julian Michael HIBBERD: December 1969". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10.
  2. 1 2 Julian Hibberd's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge". emma.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  4. 1 2 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.3.1135. PMC 15363Freely accessible. PMID 9927706.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Julian Hibberd biography". hibberdlab.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  6. ↑ "Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06.
  7. ↑ Julian Hibberd on Twitter
  8. ↑ Hibberd, Julian Michael (1994). Effects of elevated CO₂ on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (PhD thesis). University of Wales, Bangor. OCLC 33848839.
  9. ↑ Julian Hibberd's Entry at ORCID
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Professor W Paul Quick". Sheffield: shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-10-26.
  12. ↑ "Professor Julie Scholes". Sheffield: sheffield.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04.
  13. 1 2 "President's medallists: SEB Bulletin July 2005". Society for Experimental Biology. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  14. ↑ Julian Hibberd. Insights into the evolution of the C₄ pathway? on YouTube , The Journal of Experimental Botany
  15. ↑ GRAY, Prof. John Clinton. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ "The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  18. ↑ Dodd, A. N. (2005). "Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage". Science. 309 (5734): 630–633. doi:10.1126/science.1115581.
  19. ↑ Hibberd, J. M.; Quick, W. P. (2002). "Characteristics of C₄ photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C₃ flowering plants". Nature. 415 (6870): 451–454. doi:10.1038/415451a.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ Marris, E. (2008). "Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world". Nature. 456 (7222): 563–568. doi:10.1038/456563a. PMID 19052600.
  25. ↑ "Boosting rice yields generates optimism". southwestfarmpress.com. 2010-06-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
  26. ↑ "UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  27. ↑ "Plant Physiology Editorial Board". Rockville, Maryland: American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 2015-04-22.
  28. ↑ "David Phillips fellows". Swindon: BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.
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