Person
Burdon, Jeremy James (1950 - )
FAA
- Born
- 19 June 1950
Singapore - Occupation
- Biologist
Summary
Jeremy James Burdon was Chief of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Plant Industry from 2003 to 2012. He is an evolutionary biologist with particular interests in plant-microbe interactions. His active research interests encompass problems involving pathogens of agricultural crops, using fungi as biological control agents for controlling invasive weeds and understanding the complexities of the interplay of parasitic and symbiotic interactions in natural systems.
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Chronology
- 1972
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the Australian National University in Canberra
- 1972 - 1975
- Career position - Demonstrator (part-time) in the Botany Department of the Australian National University
- 1976
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Australian National University
- 1976
- Career position - Tutor in the Botany Department of the Australian National University (eight months)
- 1976 - 1978
- Career position - 1851 Overseas Scholar and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Postdoctoral Scholar (to 1977) at the School of Plant Biology at University College of North Wales, UK
- 1978 - 1980
- Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 1980 - 1982
- Career position - Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 1981 -
- Career position - Member of the Australian National Wheat Rust Control Committee
- 1982 - 1986
- Career position - Senior Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 1983
- Career position - E.C. Stakman Visiting Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, USA (eight months)
- 1986 - 1992
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 1987
- Award - Gottschalk Medal received from the Australian Academy of Science
- 1987 - 1992
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Australian journal of botany
- 1987 - 1999
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Euphytica
- 1990 -
- Career position - Member of the Plant Health Committee of the Standing Committee of Agricultural and Resource Management (SCARM)
- 1990 -
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Oecologia
- 1992 - c. 1997
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 1994 -
- Career position - Member of the Australian Weed Committee of SCARM
- 1996 -
- Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1996 - 2003
- Career position - Program Leader of the Program U 'Australian Flora Resources and Management' at CSIRO
- 1997 - 2003
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, Plant Industry
- 1999 - 2002
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Ecology letters
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in ecology and conservation
- 2001 - 2003
- Career position - Assistant Chief of the Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO
- 2003 -
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of ecology
- 2003 -
- Award - Fellow, American Phytopathology Society
- 2003
- Award - E. C. Stakman Award, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
- 2003
- Award - Honorary Member, Mycological Society of America
- 2003 - 2012
- Career position - Chief of the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
- 2004 -
- Award - Foreign Member, Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2009 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- 2009 - 2015
- Career position - Member, Board of Trustees of Biodiversity International
- 2010
- Award - CSIRO Fellow Award
- 2010
- Award - CSIRO Medal for Business Excellence for the development of the CSIRO-Bayer wheat genetics alliance
- 2011 - 2017
- Career position - Director, Grains Research and Development Corporation
- 2013
- Award - Medal of Honor, Palacky University, Czech Republic
- 2015 - 2019
- Career position - Member, Research Funding Panel, Sugar Research Australia Pty Ltd
- 2017 - 2019?
- Career position - Chair, National Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Australian Academy of Science
- 2017 - 2020
- Career position - Director, Cotton Research and Development Corporation
- 2019 -
- Career position - Non Executive Director, Sugar Research Australia Pty Ltd
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Burdon, Jeremy J., Diseases and plant population biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 208 pp. Details
- Frankel,, Otto; Brown, D. H.; and Burdon, Jeremy J., The conservation of plant biodiversity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 299 pp. Details
Resources
- 'Burdon, J J (19500619-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-564991. Details
Resource Sections
- Ward, C., 'Jeremy James Burdon', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Burdon-Jeremy-James. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 14 September 2005, Last modified: 24 April 2023