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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Nicholas Paul Harberd FRS
CURRENT POSITION: Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science, University of Oxford
EXPERTISE AND TRACK RECORD: World-leading plant molecular geneticist with
multidisciplinary experience of discovery in fundamental plant biology, model-crop
translations, growth regulation, and whole-genome genomics. Particular current
interests include the biology of mutation and the relationship between plant
developmental and metabolic regulation, the latter with a view to impact on
sustainable agriculture.
QUALIFICATIONS: BA (Hons) Natural Sciences (2:i) (1977), MA, PhD (1981),
University of Cambridge ; MA (2008), University of Oxford
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Oct 1982
Postdoc: Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge
Jan 1986
Postdoc: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Feb 1989
Project Leader (SSO) IPSR Cambridge/John Innes Centre (JIC),
Norwich
Apr 1995
Project Leader (Band 4), JIC, Norwich
Jul 2000
Project Leader (Band 3: Individual Merit Promotion), JIC, Norwich
Aug 2004
Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Aug 2007
Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science, University of Oxford
HONOURS AND PRIZES:
May 2009
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Oct 2009
Elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
Sep 2014
Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Mar 2015
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS), Beijing
PUBLICATIONS (last five years):
Jiang, C. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2011). Regenerant Arabidopsis
lineages display a distinct genome-wide spectrum of mutations conferring variant
phenotypes. Current Biology 21, 1385-1390.
Gan, X. et al. (Harberd, N.P. co-author). (2011). Multiple reference genomes and
transcriptiomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 477, 420-424.
Sauret-Güeto, S. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2012). Transient gibberellin
application promotes Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl cell elongation without
maintaining transverse orientation of microtubules on the outer tangential wall of
epidermal cells. The Plant Journal 69, 628-639.
Kumar, S.V. et al. (Harberd, N.P. co-author). (2012). Transcription factor PIF4
controls the thermosensory activation of flowering. Nature 484, 242-245.
Belfield, E.J. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2012). Genome-wide analysis of
mutations in mutant lineages selected following fast-neutron irradiation mutagenesis
of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Research 22, 1306-1315.
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Yasumura, Y. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2012). Studies of Physcomitrella
patens reveal that ethylene-mediated submergence responses arose relatively early
in land-plant evolution. The Plant Journal 72, 947-959.
Jiang, C. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2012). ROS-mediated vascular
homeostatic control of root-to-shoot soil Na delivery in Arabidopsis. EMBO Journal
31, 4359-4370.
Fuentes, S. et al. (Harberd, N.P. co-author). (2012). Fruit growth in Arabidopsis
occurs via DELLA-dependent and DELLA-independent GA responses. The Plant Cell
24, 3982-3996.
Jiang, C. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2013). An Arabidopsis soil-salinitytolerance mutation confers ethylene-mediated enhancement of sodium/potassium
homeostasis. The Plant Cell 25, 3535-3552.
Mithani, A. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2013). HANDS: a tool for genomewide discovery of subgenome-specific base-identity in polyploids. BMC Genomics
14, 653.
Belfield, E. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2014). Microarray-based ultra-high
resolution discovery of genomic deletion mutations. BMC Genomics 15, 224.
Leach, L.J. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2014). Patterns of homoeologous
gene expression shown by RNA sequencing in hexaploid bread wheat. BMC
Genomics 15, 276.
Jiang, C. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2014). Environmentally responsive
genome-wide accumulation of de novo Arabidiopsis thaliana mutations and
epimutations. Genome Research 24, 1821-1829.
Yasumura, Y. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2015). An ancestral role for
Constitutive Triple Response 1 (CTR1) proteins in both ethylene and abscisic acid
signalling. Plant Physiology 169, 283-298.
Visscher, A.M. et al. (Harberd, N.P. senior author). (2015). Overexpressing the
multiple-stress responsive gene At1g74450 reduces plant height and male fertility in
Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One 10.1371/journal.pone.0140368.
Harberd, N.P. (2015). Shaping taste: the molecular discovery of rice genes
improving grain size, shape and quality. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 42, 597599.
Chen, X. et al. (Harberd, N.P. co-author). (2016). Shoot-to-root mobile transcription
factor HY5 coordinates plant carbon and nitrogen acquisition. Current Biology 26 (in
press) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.066
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