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Julian Hibberd
FRS
BornDecember 1969 (age 55)[5]
Alma materBangor University (BSc, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsPlant Sciences[1]
Institutions
ThesisEffects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (1994)
Doctoral advisor
  • John Farrar
  • Bob Whitbread
Other academic advisorsJulie Scholes
Paul Quick
John C Gray
Malcolm Press[3][4]
Websitewww.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/julianhibberd Edit this at Wikidata

Julian Michael Hibberd FRS (born December 1969)[5] is a Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1][6][7][8]

Education

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Hibberd was educated at Bangor University where he was awarded an undergraduate degree in 1991 followed by a PhD in 1994.[3][9][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.[10]

Research and career

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Following his PhD, Hibberd completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield with Paul Quick,[11] Malcolm Press[2] and Julie Scholes,[12] investigating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts.[13][14] He moved to Cambridge to work with John C. Gray in 1997,[3][15][16] 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.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[25][26] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),[27] the FP7 program of the European Union,[3] and the European Research Council (ERC).

Hibberd served as an associate editor of the scientific journal Plant Physiology from 2012 to 2022.[28]

Awards and honours

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In 2000 Hibberd was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to investigate the role of photosynthesis in veins of C3 plants.[7][13][29] 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.[citation needed]

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.[25] 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".

Hibberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2025.[30][31]

References

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  1. ^ a b Julian Hibberd publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b R A Bungard; A V Ruban; J M Hibberd; M C Press; Peter Horton; Julie D Scholes (1 February 1999). "Unusual carotenoid composition and a new type of xanthophyll cycle in plants". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96 (3): 1135–1139. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.1135B. doi:10.1073/PNAS.96.3.1135. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 15363. PMID 9927706. Wikidata Q34490415.
  3. ^ a b c d "Julian Hibberd biography". hibberdlab.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  4. ^ "Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences". University of Cambridge. 3 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06.
  5. ^ a b "Julian Michael Hibberd: December 1969". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10.
  6. ^ a b Julian Hibberd publications from Europe PubMed Central Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ a b "Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge". emma.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  8. ^ "Molecular Physiology". plantsci.cam.ac.uk. 4 June 2013.
  9. ^ Hibberd, Julian Michael (1994). Effects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley (PhD thesis). University of Wales, Bangor. OCLC 33848839. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.484121.
  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. ^ a b "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 (177th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025. p. 2720. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17926. ISBN 9781399411837. OCLC 1427336388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  16. ^ Michael Knoblauch; Hibberd JM; Gray JC; van Bel AJ (1 September 1999). "A galinstan expansion femtosyringe for microinjection of eukaryotic organelles and prokaryotes". Nature Biotechnology. 17 (9): 906–909. doi:10.1038/12902. ISSN 1087-0156. PMID 10471935. Wikidata Q33872994.
  17. ^ One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative (23 October 2019). "One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants". Nature. 574 (7780): 679–685. doi:10.1038/S41586-019-1693-2. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 6872490. PMID 31645766. Wikidata Q90911773.
  18. ^ Antony N Dodd; Neeraj Salathia; Anthony Hall; et al. (1 July 2005). "Plant circadian clocks increase photosynthesis, growth, survival, and competitive advantage". Science. 309 (5734): 630–633. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1115581. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16040710. Wikidata Q34436491.
  19. ^ "The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  20. ^ Julian M Hibberd; W Paul Quick (1 January 2002). "Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants". Nature. 415 (6870): 451–454. doi:10.1038/415451A. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 11807559. Wikidata Q34520570.
  21. ^ R S Millen; R G Olmstead; K L Adams; et al. (1 March 2001). "Many parallel losses of infA from chloroplast DNA during angiosperm evolution with multiple independent transfers to the nucleus". The Plant Cell. 13 (3): 645–658. doi:10.1105/TPC.13.3.645. ISSN 1040-4651. PMID 11251102. Wikidata Q57252801.
  22. ^ Julian M Hibberd; John E Sheehy; Jane A Langdale (18 January 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. ISSN 1369-5266. PMID 18203653. Wikidata Q34737664.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ a b Emma Marris (1 December 2008). "Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world". Nature. 456 (7222): 563–568. doi:10.1038/456563A. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 19052600. Wikidata Q55051172.
  26. ^ "Boosting rice yields generates optimism". southwestfarmpress.com. 2010-06-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
  27. ^ "UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21.
  28. ^ "Plant Physiology Editorial Board". Rockville, Maryland: American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 2015-04-22.
  29. ^ "David Phillips fellows". Swindon: BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.
  30. ^ "Professor Julian Hibberd elected as Fellow of the Royal Society". cam.ac.uk. 2025-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
  31. ^ "Professor Julian Hibberd FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 2025.
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