Brian Charlesworth

Brian Charlesworth
Born	Brian Charlesworth (1945-04-29) 29 April 1945 (age 71)
Nationality	British
Fields	Evolutionary biology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh University of Chicago University of Liverpool University of Sussex
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Thesis	Genetic variation in viability in drosophila melanogaster (1968)
Doctoral students	Doris Bachtrog Isabel Gordo Mark Jensen Soojin Yi
Other notable students	Gilean McVean (postdoc) Peter Andolfatto (postdoc) Asher Cutter (postdoc)
Notable awards	Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2015) Darwin-Wallace Medal (2010) Sewall Wright Award (2006) Frink Medal (2006) FRSE (2000) FRS (1991)
Spouse	Deborah Maltby (m. 1967)
Children	1 daughter

Professor Brian Charlesworth FRS FRSE (born 29 April 1945) is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of Biology Letters. Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) in Edinburgh.

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.

Following his PhD, Charlesworth did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, University of Liverpool 1971–1974 and the University of Sussex under John Maynard Smith 1974–82. 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.

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