Julian Hibberd Explained

Julian Hibberd
Birth Date:[1]
Alma Mater:University of Wales, Bangor (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Title:Effects of elevated on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484121
Thesis Year:1994
Academic Advisors:Julie Scholes, Paul Quick, John C Gray, Malcolm Press[2]
Awards:BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (2000), Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallist (2005), The Melvin Calvin Award, International Society of Photosynthesis Research (2007)

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

Education

Hibberd was educated at University of Wales, Bangor 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

Following his PhD, Hibberd completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield with Paul Quick,[8] Malcolm Press and Julie Scholes,[9] investigating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts.[10] [11] He moved to Cambridge to work with John C. Gray in 1997,[4] [12] 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.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[20] [21] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[22] 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.[23]

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 Hibberd was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to investigate the role of photosynthesis in veins of C3 plants.[3] [10] [24] 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160610092433/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/nCnWoQ5NAUasaSHToUkrkUG8VrE/appointments. 2016-06-10. Julian Michael HIBBERD: December 1969 . Companies House. London.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20131006053342/http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/hibberd-julian. 2013-10-06. Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences. University of Cambridge. 3 June 2013.
  3. Web site: Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge. emma.cam.ac.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305060951/http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/index.cfm?fellow=30. 2016-03-05.
  4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234655/http://hibberdlab.com/members.html. 2016-03-03. Julian Hibberd biography. hibberdlab.com.
  5. PhD . Julian Michael. Hibberd . Effects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley . University of Wales, Bangor . 1994 . 33848839.
  6. Julian Hibberd's
  7. Hibberd. J.M.. Whitbread. R.. Farrar. J.F.. Effect of elevated concentrations of CO2 on infection of barley by Erysiphe graminis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 48. 1. 1996. 37–53. 10.1006/pmpp.1996.0004.
  8. Web site: Professor W Paul Quick. https://web.archive.org/web/20151026005848/http://shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/quick. 2015-10-26. shef.ac.uk. Sheffield .
  9. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160404101418/https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/scholes . Professor Julie Scholes. 2016-04-04. sheffield.ac.uk. Sheffield.
  10. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20140202193145/http://www.sebiology.org/publications/Bulletin/July05/pres_meds.html . 2014-02-02. President's medallists: SEB Bulletin July 2005. Society for Experimental Biology.
  11. , The Journal of Experimental Botany
  12. 10471935. 1999. Knoblauch. M. A galinstan expansion femtosyringe for microinjection of eukaryotic organelles and prokaryotes. Nature Biotechnology. 17. 9. 906–9. Hibberd. J. M.. Gray. J. C.. Van Bel. A. J.. 10.1038/12902. 10151980.
  13. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224342/http://hibberdlab.com/. 2016-03-03. The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. University of Cambridge.
  14. Dodd. A. N.. Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage. Science. 309. 5734. 2005. 630–633. 10.1126/science.1115581. 16040710. 2005Sci...309..630D. 25739247.
  15. 10.1038/415451a. 11807559. Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants. Nature. 415. 6870. 451–454. 2002. Hibberd . J. M. . Quick . W. P. . 2002Natur.415..451H. 4330920.
  16. 10.1105/tpc.13.3.645. 11251102. 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. 2001. Millen . R. S.. 135507.
  17. Hibberd . J. M. . Julian Hibberd. Sheehy . J. E. . Langdale . J. A. . Jane A. Langdale. 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.11.002 . Using C4 photosynthesis to increase the yield of rice—rationale and feasibility . Current Opinion in Plant Biology . 11 . 2 . 228–231 . 2008 . 18203653.
  18. 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. Langdale. Jane A.. Evolution of GOLDEN2-LIKE gene function in C3 and C4 plants. Planta. 237. 2. 2012. 481–495. 10.1007/s00425-012-1754-3. 22968911. 3555242.
  19. Tolley. B. J.. Sage. T. L.. Langdale. J. A.. Jane A. Langdale. Hibberd. J. M.. Individual Maize Chromosomes in the C3 Plant Oat Can Increase Bundle Sheath Cell Size and Vein Density. Plant Physiology. 159. 4. 2012. 1418–1427. 10.1104/pp.112.200584. 22675083. 3425187.
  20. Marris . E. . Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world . Nature . 456 . 7222 . 563–568 . 2008 . 19052600 . 10.1038/456563a. 2008Natur.456..563M . free .
  21. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030633/http://southwestfarmpress.com/boosting-rice-yields-generates-optimism. Boosting rice yields generates optimism . southwestfarmpress.com . 2010-06-11 . 2010-11-08. 2016-03-04.
  22. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160321093604/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/A5161254-9D79-48D9-8010-8040332F570D. 2016-03-21. UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd. Swindon. Research Councils UK.
  23. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150422234647/http://www.plantphysiol.org/site/misc/edboard.xhtml. 2015-04-22. Plant Physiology Editorial Board. American Society of Plant Biologists. Rockville, Maryland.
  24. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070333/http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/skills/leadership/our-fellows/david-phillips/. 2015-09-05. David Phillips fellows. BBSRC. Swindon.

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