Stuart West

Stuart West

Contact Details
email: Stuart.West@zoo.ox.ac.uk

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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, 2009-
Professor Of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh University, 2005-2008
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Edinburgh (2002-2008) & Oxford (2009-2010) Universities, 2002-2010.
BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, 1998-2002.
Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Edinburgh University, 1997-1998.
Visiting Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1996-1997
Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College at Silwood Park, 1995-1996.
PhD, Imperial College at Silwood Park, 1992-1995.
B.A., Cambridge, 1988-1991.

I am an associate fellow at Christ Church

Representative Publications

Rumbaugh, K.P., Diggle, S.P., Watters, C.M., Ross-Gillespie, A., Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2009). Quorum sensing and the social evolution of bacterial virulence. Current Biology 19, 341-345.
West, S.A. (2009) Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press (Monographs in Population Biology Series).
Wild, G., Gardner, A. & West, S.A. (2009) Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world. Nature. In press.
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. {Media} {Making the paper} {Editorial} {Faculty of 1000} {Letter to Nature}
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S. & Gardner, A. (2007) Evolutionary explanations for cooperation. Current Biology, 17, R661-R672.
West, S.A., Griffin, A.S., Gardner, A. & Diggle, S.P. (2006) Social evolution theory for microbes. Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 597-607.
West, S.A., Gardner, A., Shuker, D.M., Reynolds, T., Burton-Chellow, M., Sykes, E.M., Guinee, M.A. & Griffin, A.S. (2006) Cooperation and the scale of competition in humans. Current Biology 16, 1103-1106. {Current Biology Commentary} {Media}
Nee, S., Colegrave, N., West, S.A. & Grafen, A. (2005) The illusion of invariant quantities in life-histories. Science 309, 1236-1239 {Science perspective} {Media}
Griffin, A.S., West, S.A. & Buckling, A. (2004) Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature, 430, 1024-1027. {Nature News & Views} {Science perspective} {Media}
Shuker, D.M. & West, S.A. (2004) Information constraints and the precision of adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 101, 10363-10367. {Current Biology Commentary} {Faculty of 100 Commentary}
Griffin, A.S. & West, S.A. (2003) Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science, 302, 634-636. {Media}
Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A. & Denison, R.F. (2003) Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobia mutualism. Nature, 425, 78-81. {Media}
West, S.A. & Sheldon, B.C. (2002) Constraints in the evolution of sex ratio adjustment. Science, 295, 1685-1688. {PDF of TREE commentary}
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. {PDF of TREE commentary} {Media}

Full list of publications

Honours & Awards
Vice President, Society for the Study of Evolution (2008)
Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London (June 2007)
Phillip Leverhulme Prize (October 2006)
Chancellor’s Rising Star Award, Edinburgh University (August 2006)

Editorial Duties
Evolution, Associate Editor, 2010-
American Naturalist, Associate Editor, 2005-present
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Reviewing Editor, 2004-2005; Reviews Editor, 2005-present.
Animal Behaviour, Consultant Editor, 2001-2004.

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