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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2005-09-14 human Annette Alafaci updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004605b.htm person Burdon Jeremy James FAA FTSE AACR2 19 June 1950 Place of Birth Singapore Biologist 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. 1972 1972 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Australian National University, Canberra 1972 1975 Career position - Demonstrator (part-time), Botany Department, Australian National University 1976 1976 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University 1976 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 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 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 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 Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of ecology 2003 Award - Fellow, American Phytopathology Society 2003 2003 Award - E. C. Stakman Award, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. 2003 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 2010 Award - CSIRO Fellow Award 2010 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 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 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1987 - )

Eected Fellow 2009 -

 Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science (1979 - )

Awarded the Medal 1987

 CSIR/O Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1929 - c. 2014)

Chief 2003 - 2012

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Elected Fellow 1996; Chair, National Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 2017 - ?2019

 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Awards, Australia (1891 - )

1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Postdoctoral Scholar: 1976-1978. [School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, UK]

 Burdon, J J (19500619-)

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 'Burdon, Jeremy James', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Burdon, Jeremy James Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Academy 2024 Book: Diseases and plant population biology Burdon, Jeremy J. Diseases and plant population biology Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1987 Book: The conservation of plant biodiversity Frankel,, Otto; Brown, D. H.; and Burdon, Jeremy J. The conservation of plant biodiversity Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995 Resource: Gottschalk Medal Australian Academy of Science Gottschalk Medal Australian Academy of Science 2022 Resource Section: Jeremy James Burdon Ward, C. Jeremy James Burdon Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 2011 CSIROpedia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)