Paul D. N. Hebert

Paul David Neil Hebert OC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s[1] to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.[2][3]

Paul D. N. Hebert

OC FRSC
Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2015
Born
Paul David Neil Hebert

1947 (age 73–74)
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
AwardsHeineken Prize (2018)
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorJohn Gibson
Academic work
DisciplineBiology
Sub-disciplineGenetics
Institutions
Doctoral students
  • David Stanton
  • Marc Boileau
  • Derek Taylor
  • Margaret Beaton
  • Chris Wilson
  • John Colbourne
  • Melania Cristescu
Notable ideasDNA barcoding

Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity[4] at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.[5] He is an Officer of the Order of Canada,[6] a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2018 Heineken Prize for environmental sciences, [7] and the 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.[8]

References
  1. Woese, C R; Kandler, O; Wheelis, M L (June 1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 87 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744.
  2. "The Father of DNA Barcoding". Scienceline. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. "DNA Barcoding Pioneer Wins Global Research Prize". U of G News. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  4. Government of Canada, Industry Canada (29 November 2012). "Canada Research Chairs". www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  5. "Paul Hebert | Department of Integrative Biology". www.uoguelph.ca. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  6. Hebert, Paul. "Officer of the Order of Canada".
  7. "Paul D.N. Hebert". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 22 May 2019.
  8. "Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020". The MIDORI Press. Retrieved 2 September 2020.


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