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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]
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]
[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
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 .
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[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
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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"Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge" . emma.cam.ac.uk. Archived from
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Julian Hibberd publications indexed by
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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 .
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"Julian Hibberd biography" . hibberdlab.com. Archived from
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"Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences" .
University of Cambridge . 3 June 2013. Archived from
the original on 2013-10-06.
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"Julian Michael HIBBERD: December 1969" . London:
Companies House . Archived from
the original on 2016-06-10.
^ Hibberd, Julian Michael (1994).
Effects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (PhD thesis). University of Wales, Bangor.
OCLC
33848839 .
^ Julian Hibberd's
ORCID
0000-0003-0662-7958
^ 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 .
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"Professor W Paul Quick" . Sheffield: shef.ac.uk. Archived from
the original on 2015-10-26.
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"Professor Julie Scholes" . Sheffield: sheffield.ac.uk. Archived from
the original on 2016-04-04.
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"President's medallists: SEB Bulletin July 2005" .
Society for Experimental Biology . Archived from
the original on 2014-02-02.
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Julian Hibberd. Insights into the evolution of the C4 pathway? on
YouTube , The
Journal of Experimental Botany
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"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.)
^ 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 .
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"The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge" . University of Cambridge. Archived from
the original on 2016-03-03.
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
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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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
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"Boosting rice yields generates optimism" . southwestfarmpress.com. 2010-06-11. Archived from
the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-08 .
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"UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd" . Swindon:
Research Councils UK . Archived from
the original on 2016-03-21.
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"Plant Physiology Editorial Board" .
Rockville, Maryland :
American Society of Plant Biologists . Archived from
the original on 2015-04-22.
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"David Phillips fellows" . Swindon: BBSRC. Archived from
the original on 2015-09-05.