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), Australian National University, Canberra
1972 - 1975
Career position - Demonstrator (part-time), Botany Department, Australian National University
1976
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University
1976
Career position - Tutor, Botany Department, Australian National University [eight months]
1976 - 1978
Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Postdoctoral Scholar (to 1977), at the School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, UK
1978 - 1980
Career position - Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO
1980 - 1982
Career position - Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO
1981 -
Career position - Member, Australian National Wheat Rust Control Committee
1982 - 1986
Career position - Senior Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO
1983
Career position - E.C. Stakman Visiting Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, USA (eight months)
1986 - 1992
Career position - Principal Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO
1987
Award - Gottschalk Medal, 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, 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, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO
1994 -
Career position - Member of the Australian Weed Committee, SCARM
1996 -
Award - Fellow, 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

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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

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