Julian Huppert

Julian Huppert
Member of Parliament
for Cambridge
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byDavid Howarth
Succeeded byDaniel Zeichner
Lib Dem Group Leader on Cambridgeshire County Council
In office
October 2004 – May 2007
Preceded bySal Brinton
Succeeded byDavid Jenkins
Cambridgeshire County Councillor
for East Chesterton
In office
3 May 2001 – 4 June 2009
Preceded byT O'Del
Succeeded bySiep Wijsenbeek
Personal details
Born
Julian Leon Huppert

(1978-07-21) 21 July 1978 (age 46)[1]
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom, United States
Political partyLiberal Democrats
SpouseDr Caroline Wright[1]
Parents
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (MSci, PhD)
Websitewww.jesus.cam.ac.uk/people/julian-huppert
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[2]
Scientific career
ThesisStudies on genomic G-quadruplexes (2005)
Doctoral advisorShankar Balasubramanian[3]

Julian Leon Huppert[5] (born 21 July 1978)[1] is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrat party, he had previously served as a member of the Cambridgeshire County Council for East Chesterton.

Huppert succeeded David Howarth, who stood down after one term as an MP.[6] At the 2015 general election he lost the seat to Daniel Zeichner of the Labour Party by 599 votes, and failed to retake it at the 2017 general election.

  1. ^ a b c "HUPPERT, Julian Leon". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference shankar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Huppert, J. L.; Balasubramanian, S. (2005). "Prevalence of quadruplexes in the human genome". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (9): 2908–2916. doi:10.1093/nar/gki609. PMC 1140081. PMID 15914667.
  4. ^ "21/12/2013". Week in Westminster. 21 December 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ "No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. p. 8740.
  6. ^ "Lib Dems pick new city candidate". BBC News. 17 January 2010.