About Nicholas Harberd
Nicholas Paul Harberd is Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science and former head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Harberd earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with Honours, a Master of Arts, and PhD in 1981, from the University of Cambridge where he was a student of Christ's College, Cambridge. Harberd was a scientist at the Plant Breeding Institute in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire from 1982 to 1986, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 1988. Harberd led his laboratory, which was located at John Innes Centre, and subsequently at the University of Oxford from 2007. Harberd's research has been published in leading journals including Nature, Science, and Development.
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