Brian Charlesworth

Background

Charlesworth, Brian was born on April 29, 1945 in Brighton, Sussex, England. Son of Francis Gustave and Mary (Ryan) Charlesworth. came to the United States, 1985.

Education

Charlesworth gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from Queens' College, Cambridge, followed by a PhD in genetics in 1969 for research into genetic variation in viability in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Career

Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) in Edinburgh. He returned to Chicago, to be professor of ecology and evolution from 1985 to 1997 after which he moved to Edinburgh. Charlesworth has worked extensively on understanding sequence evolution, using the fruit fly as a model species, and has also contributed theoretical work on aging, the evolution of recombination and the evolution of sex chromosomes.

In April 2010, the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B was dedicated to honour Brian's contribution to the field of population genetics.

Achievements

• Charlesworth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991, and won its Darwin Medal in 2000. He won the 2006 Frink Medal, of the Zoological Society of London and in 2010 was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society. His nomination for the Royal Society reads: In 2015, the Genetics Society of America awarded Charlesworth its Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal. This award is give to recognize "lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. It recognizes the full body of work of an exceptional geneticist," according to the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal webpage.

Works

• book

  • Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)

    (In this new edition, Brian Charlesworth provides a compre...)

  • Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)

    (In this new edition, Brian Charlesworth provides a compre...)

  • Evolution in Age-structured Populations (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology) (Paperback) - Common

    (Examines theories and methods used to study age-structure...)

Membership

Fellow Royal Society London, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Genetical Society Britain, American Society Naturalists, Genetics Society American, Society Study of Evolution.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, classical music.

Connections

Married Deborah Maltby, August 19, 1967. 1 child, Jane.

Father:

Francis Gustave Charlesworth

Mother:

Mary (Ryan) Charlesworth

Spouse:

Deborah Maltby

child:

Jane Charlesworth