Julian Hibberd
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| name = Julian Hibberd
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969|12}}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610092433/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/nCnWoQ5NAUasaSHToUkrkUG8VrE/appointments|archivedate=2016-06-10|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/nCnWoQ5NAUasaSHToUkrkUG8VrE/appointments|publisher=Companies House|location=London|title=Julian Michael Hibberd: December 1969 }}
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| fields = Plant Sciences
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| alma_mater = Bangor University (BSc, PhD)
| thesis_title = Effects of elevated {{chem2|CO2}} on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley
| thesis_url = https://search.worldcat.org/title/33848839
| thesis_year = 1994
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- John Farrar
- Bob Whitbread}}
| academic_advisors = Julie Scholes
Paul Quick
John C Gray
Malcolm Press{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006053342/http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/hibberd-julian|archivedate=2013-10-06|url=http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/hibberd-julian|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=Dr Julian Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences|date=3 June 2013}}
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}}Julian Michael Hibberd {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born December 1969) is a Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.{{Google Scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}}{{cite web|url=http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/teaching/fellows/display/index.cfm?fellow=30|title=Julian Hibberd, Emmanuel College Cambridge|publisher=emma.cam.ac.uk|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305060951/http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/index.cfm?fellow=30|archivedate=2016-03-05}}{{cite web|url=https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/molecular-physiology|title=Molecular Physiology|website=plantsci.cam.ac.uk|date=4 June 2013 }}
Education
Hibberd was educated at Bangor University where he was awarded an undergraduate degree in 1991 followed by a PhD in 1994.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234655/http://hibberdlab.com/members.html|archivedate=2016-03-03|url=http://hibberdlab.com/members.html|title=Julian Hibberd biography|publisher=hibberdlab.com}}{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Julian Michael|last=Hibberd |title=Effects of elevated CO2 on biotrophic pathogens: powdery mildew of barley |publisher=University of Wales, Bangor |date=1994 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.484121}}|oclc=33848839}} 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.{{cite journal|last1=Hibberd|first1=J.M.|last2=Whitbread|first2=R.|last3=Farrar|first3=J.F.|title=Effect of elevated concentrations of CO2 on infection of barley by Erysiphe graminis|journal=Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology|volume=48|issue=1|year=1996|pages=37–53|doi=10.1006/pmpp.1996.0004}}
Research and career
Following his PhD, Hibberd completed three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Sheffield with Paul Quick,{{cite web|title=Professor W Paul Quick|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026005848/http://shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/quick|archivedate=2015-10-26|url=http://shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/quick|publisher=shef.ac.uk|location=Sheffield }} Malcolm Press and Julie Scholes,{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404101418/https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/scholes |title=Professor Julie Scholes|archivedate=2016-04-04|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/scholes|publisher=sheffield.ac.uk|location=Sheffield}} investigating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202193145/http://www.sebiology.org/publications/Bulletin/July05/pres_meds.html |archivedate=2014-02-02|url=http://www.sebiology.org/publications/Bulletin/July05/pres_meds.html |publisher=Society for Experimental Biology|title=President's medallists: SEB Bulletin July 2005}}{{YouTube|id=ipxFC_tN914|title=Julian Hibberd. Insights into the evolution of the C4 pathway?}} , The Journal of Experimental Botany He moved to Cambridge to work with John C. Gray in 1997,{{Who's Who | title = Gray, Prof. John Clinton | id = U17926 | year = 2025 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17926 | edition = 177th |publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=9781399411837|oclc=1427336388|pages=2720}}{{Cite Q| Q33872994}} 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.{{Cite Q| Q90911773}}{{cite Q| Q34436491 }}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224342/http://hibberdlab.com/|archivedate=2016-03-03|url=http://hibberdlab.com/|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=The Hibberd Lab at The Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge}}{{cite Q| Q34520570 }}{{cite Q| Q57252801}}{{Cite Q| Q34737664}}{{cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=Peng|last2=Fouracre|first2=Jim|last3=Kelly|first3=Steven|last4=Karki|first4=Shanta|last5=Gowik|first5=Udo|last6=Aubry|first6=Sylvain|last7=Shaw|first7=Michael K.|last8=Westhoff|first8=Peter|last9=Slamet-Loedin|first9=Inez H.|last10=Quick|first10=W. Paul|last11=Hibberd|first11=Julian M.|last12=Langdale|authorlink12 = Jane A. Langdale|first12=Jane A.|title=Evolution of GOLDEN2-LIKE gene function in C3 and C4 plants|journal=Planta|volume=237|issue=2|year=2012|pages=481–495|doi=10.1007/s00425-012-1754-3|pmid=22968911|pmc=3555242}}{{cite journal|last1=Tolley|first1=B. J.|last2=Sage|first2=T. L.|last3=Langdale|first3=J. A.|authorlink3 = Jane A. Langdale|last4=Hibberd|first4=J. M.|title=Individual Maize Chromosomes in the C3 Plant Oat Can Increase Bundle Sheath Cell Size and Vein Density|journal=Plant Physiology|volume=159|issue=4|year=2012|pages=1418–1427|doi=10.1104/pp.112.200584|pmid=22675083|pmc=3425187}} Hibberd's research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation{{Cite Q| Q55051172 }}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030633/http://southwestfarmpress.com/boosting-rice-yields-generates-optimism|url=http://southwestfarmpress.com/boosting-rice-yields-generates-optimism |title=Boosting rice yields generates optimism |publisher=southwestfarmpress.com |date=2010-06-11 |accessdate=2010-11-08|archivedate=2016-03-04}} the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321093604/http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/A5161254-9D79-48D9-8010-8040332F570D|archivedate=2016-03-21|url=http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/A5161254-9D79-48D9-8010-8040332F570D|location=Swindon|title=UK Government grants awarded to Julian Hibberd|publisher=Research Councils UK}} the FP7 program of the European Union, and the European Research Council (ERC).
Hibberd served as an associate editor of the scientific journal Plant Physiology from 2012 to 2022.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422234647/http://www.plantphysiol.org/site/misc/edboard.xhtml|archivedate=2015-04-22|url=http://www.plantphysiol.org/site/misc/edboard.xhtml|publisher=American Society of Plant Biologists|title=Plant Physiology Editorial Board|location=Rockville, Maryland}}
=Awards and honours=
In 2000 Hibberd was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to investigate the role of photosynthesis in veins of C3 plants.{{cite web |title=David Phillips fellows |url=http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/skills/leadership/our-fellows/david-phillips/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070333/http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/skills/leadership/our-fellows/david-phillips/ |archivedate=2015-09-05 |publisher=BBSRC |location=Swindon}} 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.{{fact|date=June 2025}}
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".
Hibberd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2025.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-20 |title=Professor Julian Hibberd elected as Fellow of the Royal Society|url=https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-julian-hibberd-elected-fellow-royal-society |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=cam.ac.uk |language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/julian-hibberd-37338/|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|year=2025|title=Professor Julian Hibberd FRS}}
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