Michael R. Rose

Michael Robertson Rose (* 1955 ) is a British evolutionary biologist .

Career and work

Rose received her PhD in biology from the University of Sussex in 1979 . His scientific work on the dissertation were greeted by Brian Charlesworth and John Maynard Smith cared. Rose then worked for three years at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . From 1981 to 1985 he was an Assistant Professor and from 1985 to 1988 Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax . In 1986 he moved to the University of California, Irvine , where he was an associate professor until 1990 . Since 1990 he has been a full professor of biology there.

The focus of Rose's research is aging processes. He became known through experiments with fruit flies , whose life expectancy he was able to double. The term antagonistic bankruptcy comes from Rose . He has authored several books on evolutionary biology.

Books

• MR Rose: Evolutionary biology of aging. Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-195-06133-0 limited preview in Google Book Search
• MR Rose: Darwin's specter: evolutionary biology in the modern world. Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-01217-2 limited preview in Google Book Search. (German Darwin's world: from researchers, finches and evolution . Stuttgart: dva, 2002. Taschenbuchausg .: München: Piper, 2003 (Piper series; 3679). ISBN 3-492-23679-0 .)
• MR Rose: Darwin's shadow. DVA, 2001, ISBN 3-421-05383-9
• MR Rose and LD Mueller: Evolution and Ecology of the Organism. Benjamin Cummings, 2005, ISBN 0-130-10404-3
• MR Rose: The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-195-17939-0
• T. Garland, T. Garland and MR Rose (editors): Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments. University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 0-520-26180-1

Web links

• Roses profile on the website of the University of California, Irvine (English)