Dr Jeremy Burdon: Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry

Dr Jeremy Burdon, Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry, is an evolutionary biologist with particular interest in plant-microbe interactions.

• 29 September 2008 | Updated 24 November 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Dr Jeremy Burdon is an evolutionary biologist with particular interest in plant-microbe interactions.

His active research interests include:

• problems involving pathogens of agricultural crops
• understanding the complexities of the interplay of parasitic and symbiotic interactions in natural systems
• using fungi as biological control agents for controlling invasive weeds.

Background

Since joining CSIRO in 1978, as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Dr Burdon has spent time as a:

• Fulbright Scholar and EC Stakman Visiting Professor at the USDA Cereal Rust Laboratory in Minnesota, United States of America
• Visiting Professor in the Department of Ecological Botany at the Umeå University, Sweden.

  Dr Burdon’s work has been recognised by many international awards.

Academic qualifications

Dr Burdon has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science from the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Doctor of Philosophy, also from the Australian National University.

Achievements

Dr Burdon's work has been recognised through:

• the award of the Gottschalk Medal by the Australian Academy of Science, 1987
• the EC Stakman Award from the University of Minnesota, 2003
• the award of Centenary Medal, 2003
• an honorary Doctorate by Umeå University, Sweden, 1996
• election to:
  • Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science, 1996
  • the American Phytopathological Society, 2003
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2004
  • Honorary Member of the Mycological Society of America, 2003.

He has served on the editorial boards of:

• the Australian Journal of Botany, 1987-92
• Euphytica,1987-99
• Ecology Letters, 1999-2002.

Dr Burdon is currently a member of the editorial boards of:

• Oecologia since 1990
• the Journal of Ecology since 2003.

See a list of scientific papers published by Dr Burdon on the next page.