Nicholas Harberd

Nicholas Harberd
Born
Nicholas Paul Harberd

(1956-07-15) 15 July 1956 (age 63)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forSeed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants[1]
AwardsFRS (2009)[2]
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisA genetical investigation of the alcohol dehydrogenase in barley (1981)
Websiteplants.ox.ac.uk/plants/staff/NicholasHarberd.aspx

Nicholas Paul Harberd FRS (born 15 July 1956) is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.[3][4]

Education

Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career and research

He was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988.

He is head of the Harberd group, which was located at John Innes Centre, and has been at the University of Oxford[5] since his appointment as Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences in 2007.[1][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

With George Coupland, Liam Dolan, Alison Smith, Jonathan Jones, Cathie Martin, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[14]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.[6] His nomination reads:

References

  1. ^ a b Harberd, Nicholas (2006). Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-7039-4.
  2. ^ a b "EC/2009/16: Harberd, Nicholas Paul". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 20 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Prof Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and Fellow of St. John's College". University of Oxford. 24 September 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  4. ^ Nicholas Harberd's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "Plant Sciences Staff: Prof. NP Harberd". University of Oxford. December 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  6. ^ a b "New Royal Society Fellows". University of Oxford. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  7. ^ Colin Tudge (24 March 2006). "Genes by the wayside". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Harberd, N. P.; Peng, J.; Richards, D. E.; Hartley, N. M.; Murphy, G. P.; Devos, K. M.; Flintham, J. E.; Beales, J.; Fish, L. J.; Worland, A. J.; Pelica, F.; Sudhakar, D.; Christou, P.; Snape, J. W.; Gale, M. D. (1999). "'Green revolution' genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators". Nature. 400 (6741): 256–61. doi:10.1038/22307. PMID 10421366.
  9. ^ Fu, X.; Harberd, N. P. (2003). "Auxin promotes Arabidopsis root growth by modulating gibberellin response". Nature. 421 (6924): 740–3. doi:10.1038/nature01387. PMID 12610625.
  10. ^ Peng, J.; Carol, P.; Richards, D. E.; King, K. E.; Cowling, R. J.; Murphy, G. P.; Harberd, N. P. (1997). "The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses". Genes & Development. 11 (23): 3194–205. doi:10.1101/gad.11.23.3194. PMC 316750. PMID 9389651.
  11. ^ Achard, P.; Cheng, H; De Grauwe, L; Decat, J; Schoutteten, H; Moritz, T; Van Der Straeten, D; Peng, J; Harberd, N. P. (2006). "Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals". Science. 311 (5757): 91–4. doi:10.1126/science.1118642. PMID 16400150.
  12. ^ Achard, P.; Herr, A; Baulcombe, D. C.; Harberd, N. P. (2004). "Modulation of floral development by a gibberellin-regulated microRNA". Development. 131 (14): 3357–65. doi:10.1242/dev.01206. PMID 15226253.
  13. ^ "Professor Nick Harberd elected Fellow of the Royal Society". jic.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ^ Smith, Alison Mary; Coupand, George; Dolan, Liam; Harberd, Nicholas; Jones, Jonathan; Martin, Cathie; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology. Garland Science. ISBN 0815340257.

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