Professor Julian Hibberd

 

I'm interested in understanding photosynthesis and developing strategies that may allow it to be improved in the future. My group's major focus relates to how the efficient C₄ pathway has evolved from the ancestral C₃ state. In almost all C₄ plants, leaves are modified such that changes to their development, cell biology and biochemistry allow photosynthesis to be partitioned between two cell-types. Despite this complexity, C₄ photosynthesis has arisen in over 60 separate lineages of angiosperms, and compared with the C₃ pathway, photosynthetic efficiency is increased by around 50%.

 

 

IA Biology of Cells, IB Plant and Microbial Sciences, Part II Plant Sciences on the Natural Sciences Tripos.

 

2014-present Professor, University of Cambridge

2012-present Reader, University of Cambridge

2006-present Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge

2000-2006 Lecturer, University of Cambridge

1997-1999 Postdoctoral Worker, University of Cambridge

1994-1997 Postdoctoral Worker, University of Sheffield

 

1991-1994 PhD in Plant Sciences, University of Wales

1988-1991 BSc Plant Sciences, University of Wales

 

 

Local accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the rice bundle sheath during high light stress can be independent of photosynthesis and mediated by NADPH oxidase (2021) PNAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017-present Management Board of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University

2013-present European Representative for the International Photosynthesis Society

2012-present Associate Editor of Plant Physiology

2009-present Undergraduate Mentor for the Gatsby Plant Sciences Program

2014-2019 BBSRC Agrifood Strategy Panel

2018 Advisory Board for BBSRC Sustainable Intensification Network

2014 BBSRC-DBT Panel on Crop Genomics

2014 BBSRC Germplasm Collections Working Party

2010-2014 BBSRC Responsive Mode Committee B

2005-2018 Plant Section of the Society of Experimental Biology