Nicholas Barton

Nicholas H. "Nick" Barton (born August 30, 1955 ) is a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.

Barton studied at Cambridge University (Peterhouse College) and received his doctorate in 1979 from the University of East Anglia under Godfrey Hewitt ( A narrow hybrid zone in the alpine grasshopper podisma pedestris ). He was then a demonstrator in Cambridge and from 1982 lecturer and later reader at University College London . In 1990 he became a reader and then a professor at the University of Edinburgh . He has been at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) in Klosterneuburg since 2008 .

He is concerned with the investigation of evolution in geographically extensive populations (including hybrid zones) and natural selection, which is based on many mutually influencing genes.

In 1994 he received the David Starr Jordan Prize and in 1998 the American Society of Naturalists President's Award. In 2013 he received the Gregor Mendel Medal , in 2008 the Darwin Wallace Medal and in 2013 the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1994) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and received the Royal Society's Wolfson Merit Award in 2005. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. In 2009 he received an ERC Advanced Grant.

In 2001 he was President of the Society for the Study of Evolution.

Fonts

• with Derek Briggs , Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein, Nipam H. Patel: Evolution , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2007
• with GM Hewitt: Adaptation, Speciation and Hybrid Zones , Nature, Volume 341, 1989, pp. 497-503.
• The role of hybridization in evolution , Molecular ecology, Vol. 10, 2001, pp. 551-568
• with DB Weissmann: Limits to the rate of adaptation in sexual populations. PLoS Genetics 8, 2012, e1002740.
• with M. Turelli: Spatial waves of advance with bistable dynamics: cytoplasmic and genetic analogs of the Allee effect. American Naturalist, Volume 178, 2011, pp. E48-75.

Web links

• Barton Group, IST Austria