David Hibbett is an associate professor in biology at Clark University. He is considered one of today's leading researchers "in the analysis of fungal relationships through DNA analysis."[1] At Clark he concentrates his lab work in evolutionary biology and ecology of Fungi.

He spent 1991 as a Science and Technology Agency of Japan Post-doctoral Fellow at the Tottori Mycological Institute in Tottori, Japan. A year later Hibbett taught microbiology at Framingham State College for the spring semester. From 1993 to 1999, Hibbett was a postdoctoral researcher and then a research associate in the laboratory of Michael Donoghue in the Harvard University Herbaria.[2]

He received his Bachelor of Arts from the Botany Department of University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Ph.D. from the Botany Department of Duke University.[2]

In 2007, Hibbett led the publication of a comprehensive, phylogenetically based classification scheme for the Kingdom Fungi with a long list of international taxonomic specialists, which has remained the standard framework for the higher classification of these organisms.[3] His most cited paper (as of 4 January 2021) with 1755 citations[4] is Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny.[5]

References

  1. ↑ David S. Hibbett
  2. 1 2 Hibbett Lab at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., studies evolutionary biology and ecology of Fungi, principally Basidiomycota
  3. ↑ David Hibbett; Manfred Binder; Joseph F. Bischoff; et al. (May 2007). "A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycological Research. 111 (Pt 5): 509–547. doi:10.1016/J.MYCRES.2007.03.004. ISSN 0953-7562. PMID 17572334. Wikidata Q28306496.
  4. ↑ "Google Scholar: search for Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  5. ↑ Timothy Y. James; Frank Kauff; Conrad L. Schoch; et al. (19 October 2006). "Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny". Nature. 443 (7113): 818–822. doi:10.1038/NATURE05110. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 17051209. Wikidata Q21972837.


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