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Nicholas Harberd
Birth Name:Nicholas Paul Harberd
Birth Date:1956 7, df=yes
Fields:Plant biology
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Thesis Title:A genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256738
Thesis Year:1981
Known For:Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants
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Nicholas Paul Harberd (born 15 July 1956) is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and former head of the Department of Plant Sciences (since 2022 part of the Department of Biology) at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.[1]

Education

Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from the University of Cambridge where he was a student of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career and research

He was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.

He is head of the Harberd group, which was located at John Innes Centre, and has been at the University of Oxford[2] since his appointment as Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences in 2007.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Alison Smith, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[11]

Awards and honours

Harberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.[12] His nomination reads:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prof Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and Fellow of St. John's College . . 24 September 2009 . 2012-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100829221846/http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/mathematical_physical_life_sciences/people/prof_nicholas.html . 2010-08-29 .
  2. Web site: Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. NP Harberd . University of Oxford . December 2011 . 2012-02-27.
  3. Book: Harberd, Nicholas. Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants. 2006. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-0-7475-7039-4. registration.
  4. News: Genes by the wayside. Colin Tudge. The Guardian. 24 March 2006.
  5. 10.1038/22307. 10421366. 1999. Harberd . N. P. . 'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators. Nature. 400. 6741. 256–61. Peng . J. . Richards . D. E. . Hartley . N. M. . Murphy . G. P. . Devos . K. M. . Flintham . J. E. . Beales . J. . Fish . L. J. . Worland . A. J. . Pelica . F. . Sudhakar . D. . Christou . P. . Snape . J. W. . Gale . M. D. . 1999Natur.400..256P. 4363793.
  6. 10.1038/nature01387. 12610625. Auxin promotes Arabidopsis root growth by modulating gibberellin response. Nature. 421. 6924. 740–3. 2003. Fu . X. . Harberd . N. P. . 2003Natur.421..740F. 2719281.
  7. 10.1101/gad.11.23.3194. The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses . Genes & Development. 11. 23. 3194–205. 1997. Peng . J.. Carol . P.. Richards . D. E.. King . K. E.. Cowling . R. J.. Murphy . G. P.. Harberd . N. P. . 9389651 . 316750.
  8. 10.1126/science.1118642. 16400150. Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals. Science. 311. 5757. 91–4. 2006. Achard . P.. Cheng. H. De Grauwe. L. Decat. J. Schoutteten. H. Moritz. T. Van Der Straeten. D. Peng. J. Harberd. N. P.. 2006Sci...311...91A. 32781916.
  9. 10.1242/dev.01206. 15226253. Modulation of floral development by a gibberellin-regulated microRNA. Development. 131. 14. 3357–65. 2004. Achard . P.. Herr. A. Baulcombe. D. C.. David Baulcombe. Harberd. N. P.. Nicholas Harberd.
  10. Web site: Professor Nick Harberd elected Fellow of the Royal Society. jic.ac.uk. 26 September 2018.
  11. Book: Smith . Alison Mary . Alison Mary Smith . Coupand . George . George Coupland . Dolan . Liam . Liam Dolan . Harberd . Nicholas . Nicholas Harberd . Jones . Jonathan . Jonathan D. G. Jones . Martin . Cathie . Cathie Martin . Sablowski . Robert . Amey . Abigail . 2009 . Plant Biology . . 978-0815340256 . registration .
  12. Web site: New Royal Society Fellows. University of Oxford. 2012-03-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20121202162640/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090515_1.html. 2 December 2012. dead.

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