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Dr Jeremy Burdon appointed Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry
Campbell, Australia
November 6, 2003

Following the retirement of the Division's leader for the past 25 years, Dr Jim Peacock, CSIRO Plant Industry's current Assistant Chief, Dr Jeremy Burdon, will take over as Chief on 15 December this year.

"CSIRO is fortunate to have a person of Dr Burdon's proven experience and abilities on hand to assume the leadership role," Dr Garrett said.

"Jeremy has an outstanding track record in research and he has also made important contributions to research management in CSIRO, most recently as a Program Leader and Assistant Chief in the Division of Plant Industry."

Dr Burdon - the Division's Assistant Chief since 2001 - joined CSIRO in 1978 as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow.

His areas of professional interest include plant - microbe interactions, and in particular pathogens of agricultural crops, the use of fungi as biological control agents for invasive weeds and understanding the complexities of the interplay of parasitic and symbiotic interactions in natural systems.

Dr Burdon has spent time as a Fulbright Scholar and EC Stakman Visiting Professor at the USDA Cereal Rust Laboratory in Minnesota, USA, and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Ecological Botany at the University of Umea,Sweden.

In recent years, Dr Burdon's work has been recognised through the award of the Gottschalk Medal by the Australian Academy of Science (1987), an honorary Doctorate by Umea University, Sweden (1996) and election to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (1996).

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jim Peacock for his wonderful contribution not only to the Division, but to CSIRO as a whole and I'm sure he will continue to make significant contributions to Australian science in his 'retirement'," Dr Garrett said.
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