David Hibbett is an associate professor in biology

Biology

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 at Clark University

Clark University

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. He is considered one of today's leading researchers "in the analysis of 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

Tottori

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, Japan

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. A year later Hibbett taught microbiology

Microbiology

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 at Framingham State College

Framingham State College

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 for the spring semester. From 1993 to 1999, Hibbett was a postdoctoral researcher

Postdoctoral researcher

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 and then a research associate

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 in the laboratory of Michael Donoghue in the Harvard University Herbaria

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He received his Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the Botany Department of University of Massachusetts Amherst

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 and his Ph.D.

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 from the Botany Department of Duke University

Duke University

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