David S. Hibbett

David S. Hibbett is Professor of Biology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Hibbett’s scholarship focuses on evolutionary biology of fungi, particularly mushroom-forming fungi. His research encompasses molecular systematics and evolution, classification, comparative genomics, developmental biology, and paleomycology.

Hibbett's lab explores fungal evolution, taxonomy, ecology, and functional biology, with a focus on Agaricomycetes (mushroom-forming Fungi). The common thread uniting all the projects is a phylogenetic perspective, derived from analyses of molecular sequences, and increasingly from whole genomes. His lab takes an integrative approach to fungal biology, combining fieldwork and specimen-based studies with lab-based and computational studies of molecular evolution, development, decay, and comparative genomics.

He received a B.S. in Botany from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Botany from Duke University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Tottori Mycological Institute (Japan) and the Harvard University Herbaria.