Angus Buckling是实验进化生物学领域最活跃的年轻学者之一。2009年Nature杂志组织的纪念达尔文的系列综述中关于实验进化生物学的文章（The Beagle in a bottle）就是由他执笔。他的研究方向包括捕食系统的进化、社会关系（合作/欺骗等）的进化、细菌抗药性的进化、多样性模式的实验验证等；迄今发表论 文70余篇，在Nature、Science发表论文10余篇。
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6月5日（周六）9:00-11:30 （10:00-10:20茶休） |
Introduction to experimental evolution and the evolution of diversity |
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6月5日（周六）14:00-16:30 （15:00-15:20茶休） |
The evolution of evolvability: sex and mutation rates |
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6月6日（周日）9:00-11:30 （10:00-10:20茶休） |
Social evolution |
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6月6日（周日）14:00-16:30 （15:00-15:20茶休） |
The evolution of parasite virulence |
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6月7日（周一）9:00-11:30 （10:00-10:20茶休） |
Host-parasite coevolution |
Outline of the Lecture：
Evolution by natural selection is the unifying process in all biology. Yet it is hard to study because of the long time scales that are involved. In contrast to most organisms, microbes, because of the short generation times and large population sizes, evolve extremely quickly, making them ideal to test fundamental evolutionary theory. Studies of microbial evolution are not however limited to testing general theory: rapid evolution is crucial in explaining the characteristics of natural populations of microbes. I will discuss recent experimental work on the evolutionary ecology of microbes (that is, how environmental conditions shape their evolution), occasionally highlighting potential applications of this approach to the study of microbes. Specially, I will focus on: the evolution of microbial diversity; the evolution of evolvability; social evolution; the evolution of parasite virulence; host-parasite coevolution.