Professor Julian Hibberd
- • Head of Department of Plant Sciences
- • Head of Molecular Physiology
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About
Julian Hibberd is the Head of Department of Plant Sciences and Head of Molecular Physiology at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Previous Positions
2014 to present - Professor - University of Cambridge, England
2012 to present - Reader - University of Cambridge, England
2006 to present - Senior Lecturer - University of Cambridge, England
2000 to 2006 - Lecturer - University of Cambridge, England
1997 to 1999 - Postdoctoral Worker - University of Cambridge, England
1994 to 1997 - Postdoctoral Worker - University of Sheffield, England
Qualifications
1994 - PhD in Plant Sciences - University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
1991 - BSc Plant Sciences - University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
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Awards & Fellowships
2008 - Five Crop Researchers Who Could Change the World
2007 - Melvin Calvin Award for Research in Photosynthesis
2000 to 2005 - BBSRC Sir David Phillips Research Fellowship
Committees
2017 to present - Member - Management Board of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University
2013 to present - Member - European Representative for the International Photosynthesis Society
2012 to present - Member - Associate Editor of Plant Physiology
2009 to present - Member - Undergraduate Mentor for the Gatsby Plant Sciences Program
2014 to 2019 - Member - BBSRC Agrifood Strategy Panel
2018 - Member - Advisory Board for BBSRC Sustainable Intensification Network
2014 - Member - BBSRC-DBT Panel on Crop Genomics
2014 - Member - BBSRC Germplasm Collections Working Party
2010 to 2014 - Member - BBSRC Responsive Mode Committee B
2005 to 2018 - Member - Plant Section of the Society of Experimental Biology
Research
Research Group
Research Overview
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%.
School of Biological Sciences Theme Affiliations
Publications
Selected publications
Teaching and supervision
Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part IA Biology of Cells
Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part IB Plant and Microbial Sciences
Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part II Plant Sciences