Person
Burdon, Jeremy James (1950 - )
FAA FTSE
- 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
- Career position - Tutor, Botany Department, Australian National University [eight months]
- 1976
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University
- 1976 - 1977
- Award - CSIRO Postdoctoral Scholar, at the School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, UK]
- 1976 - 1978
- Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship
- 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
- 1 Jan 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 -
- Award - Fellow, American Phytopathology Society
- 2003 -
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of ecology
- 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 (FTSE)
- 2009 - 2015
- Career position - Member, Board of Trustees of Biodiversity International
- 2010
- Award - CSIRO Medal for Business Excellence for the development of the CSIRO-Bayer wheat genetics alliance
- 2010
- Award - CSIRO Fellow Award
- 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
Journal Articles
- Park, R. F., Burdon, J. J. and McIntosh, R. A., 'Studies on the origin, spread and evolution of an important group of Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici pathotypes in Australasia', European journal of plant pathology, 101 (1995), 613-22. Details
Resources
- Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science, 2022. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/gottschalk-medal. Details
- 'Dr Jeremy Burdon - Biography at time of election', Fellows of the Academy, 2024, https://www.atse.org.au/who-we-are/our-fellows/all-fellows/jeremy-burdon/. Details
- '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
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Created: 14 September 2005, Last modified: 14 October 2026