Julian Hibberd

Julian Hibberd
Born Julian M. Hibberd
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater Bangor University (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Effects of elevated CO₂ on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (1994)
Doctoral advisor
  • John Farrar
  • Bob Whitbread
Notable awards BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship[2]

Website

Julian M. Hibberd is a Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1][2]

Education

Hibberd was educated at Bangor University in Wales where he was awarded his first degree in 1991 followed by a PhD in 1994.[4][5][6] 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.[7]

Research and career

After completing postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield[3] he moved to the University of Cambridge.

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.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[16][17] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)[18] and the FP7 program of the European Union.[5]

Awards and honours

In 2008 Hibberd was named by 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". He was also awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship.[2][19]

References

  1. 1 2 Julian Hibberd's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge". emma.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  3. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.3.1135. PMC: 15363. PMID 9927706.
  4. ↑ Hibberd, Julian (1994). Effects of elevated CO₂ on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (PhD thesis). Bangor University. OCLC 33848839.
  5. 1 2 "Julian Hibberd biography". hibberdlab.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  6. ↑ Julian Hibberd's Entry at ORCID
  7. ↑ Hibberd, J.M.; Whitbread, R.; Farrar, J.F. (1996). "Effect of elevated concentrations of CO2on infection of barley byErysiphe graminis". Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 48 (1): 37–53. doi:10.1006/pmpp.1996.0004. ISSN 0885-5765.
  8. ↑ "The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  9. ↑ Dodd, A. N. (2005). "Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage". Science 309 (5734): 630–633. doi:10.1126/science.1115581. ISSN 0036-8075.
  10. ↑ Hibberd, J. M.; Quick, W. P. (2002). "Characteristics of C₄ photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C₃ flowering plants". Nature 415 (6870): 451. doi:10.1038/415451a.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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. doi:10.1105/tpc.13.3.645.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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. ISSN 0032-0935.
  15. ↑ 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. ISSN 0032-0889.
  16. ↑ Marris, E. (2008). "Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world". Nature 456 (7222): 563–568. doi:10.1038/456563a. PMID 19052600.
  17. ↑ "Boosting rice yields generates optimism". southwestfarmpress.com. 2010-06-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
  18. ↑ "UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  19. ↑ "David Phillips fellows". Swindon: BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.


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