David Hibbett

David Hibbett is an associate professor in biology at Clark University who analyses fungal relationships through DNA analysis. 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.^[1]

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.^[1]

In 2007, Hibbett led the publication of a 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.^[2] His most cited paper (as of 4 January 2021) with 1755 citations^[3] is Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny.^[4]

References

1. "Hibbett Lab at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., studies evolutionary biology and ecology of Fungi, principally Basidiomycota". Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2007.
2. 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.
3. "Google Scholar: search for Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
4. 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.