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.
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-salinity-tolerance 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 genome-wide 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, 597-599.
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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