C.V.
| Year |
Description |
2005- |
University of Edinburgh. Professor of Evolutionary Biology. |
2002- |
University of Edinburgh. Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
1998 - 2002 |
University of Edinburgh. BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellowship |
1997-1998 |
University of Edinburgh. Post-Doctoral Research Assistant |
1996 – 1997 |
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. |
1995 - 1996 |
Imperial College at Silwood Park. Post-Doctoral Research Assistant |
1992-1995 |
Imperial College at Silwood Park. NERC PhD |
Research groupings
Population Genetics and Evolution
Animal Ecology and Behaviour
Parasitology
Teaching
Social Evolution Honours Module
Sex Ratios (Sex & Breeding Systems Module)
Research interests
I work on the evolution of reproductive strategies. This involves a range of related questions at a number of levels. My main interests fall in two areas:
- Sex Allocation - The allocation of resources to male versus female reproduction, and especially explaining when and why individuals adjust the sex of their offspring in response to environmental conditions.
- Social Evolution: Cooperation & Conflict - The evolution of all forms of social behaviour, such as cooperation within or between species, aggression & fighting, and even spite.
Representative publications
Diggle, S.P., Griffin, A.S., Campbell, G.S. & West. S.A. (2007) Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations. Nature 450, 411-414.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20, 415-432.
West, S.A., Gardner, A., Shuker, D.M., Reynolds, T., Burton, M., Sykes, E.M., Guinee, M.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2006) Cooperation and the scale of competition in humans. Current Biology 16, 1103-1106.
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen, A. (2005) The illusion of invariant quantities in life-histories. Science 309, 1236-1239.
Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature, 430, 1024-1027.
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2003) Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science, 302, 634-636.
Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F. (2003) Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobia mutualism. Nature, 425, 78-81.
West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment. Science, 295, 1685-1688.
West, S.A., Pen, I. Griffin, A.S. (2002) Cooperation and competition between relatives. Science, 296, 72-75.
West, S.A., Murray, M.G, Machado, C., Griffin, A.S. & Herre, E.A. (2001) Testing Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives. Nature, 409, 510-513.
|
