Burdon, Jeremy James (1950 - )

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

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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

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