Andrew F. Read

Andrew Fraser Read FRS[1] is Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Pennsylvania State University.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Education

Andrew Read

Andrew Read in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born Andrew Fraser Read
Nationality
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Comparative analyses of reproductive tactics (1989)
Doctoral advisor Paul H. Harvey
Doctoral students
  • Megan Greischar
  • Katey Glunt
  • Lindsay Beck-Johnson
  • Penny Lynch
  • Katie Atkins
  • Vicki Barclay
  • Gráinne Long
  • Katrina Grech
  • Andrew Wargo
  • Jaap de Roode
  • Meghan Guinnee (nee Gannon)
  • Lucy Crooks
  • Sarah Reece
  • Heather Ferguson
  • Rebecca Timms
  • Katrina Lythgoe
  • Alan Gemmill
  • Silvie Huijben
  • Stephanie Schrag
  • Per Arneberg
  • Louise Taylor
  • Angus Buckling
Notable awards

Website

Read was educated at the University of Otago where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984.[9] He moved on to the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989 for research supervised by Paul H. Harvey.[10]

Awards and honours

Read was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

“ Andrew Read’s work has revealed the evolutionary forces that shape pathogen virulence, infectivity, vaccine escape and drug resistance in a number of significant human infections. His work on malaria has provided a substantial body of experimental evidence to show that within-host selective pressures drive the evolution of both virulence and drug resistance. Integrating mathematical models with his experimental evidence, he proposed the controversial hypothesis that some vaccines can prompt evolution of more virulent pathogen strains. Recently he confirmed this hypothesis by evolving rodent malaria parasites in mice immunized with a candidate human malaria vaccine and showing virulence increased as predicted. He also developed both the theory and the proof of principle for the production of evolution-proof insecticides and provided the critical experimental evidence that animals have genetic variation in tolerance, a host defence mechanism which complements the more conventionally studied resistance.[1] ”

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Andrew Read FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
  2. ↑ Andrew F. Read's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  3. ↑ Andrew Read at TEDMED 2012: The bugs are getting smarter. Are we? on YouTube
  4. ↑ West, S.A.; Lively, C.M.; Read, A.F. (1999). "A pluralist approach to sex and recombination". Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12 (6): 1003–1012. doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00119.x.
  5. ↑ Gandon, S.; MacKinnon, M. J.; Nee, S.; Read, A. F. (2001). "Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence". Nature 414 (6865): 751–756. doi:10.1038/414751a.
  6. ↑ Read, A. F. (2001). "The Ecology of Genetically Diverse Infections". Science 292 (5519): 1099–1102. doi:10.1126/science.1059410.
  7. ↑ Andrew F. Read's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  8. ↑ Kouyos, R. D.; Metcalf, C. J.; Birger, R; Klein, E. Y.; Abel Zur Wiesch, P; Ankomah, P; Arinaminpathy, N; Bogich, T. L.; Bonhoeffer, S; Brower, C; Chi-Johnston, G; Cohen, T; Day, T; Greenhouse, B; Huijben, S; Metlay, J; Mideo, N; Pollitt, L. C.; Read, A. F.; Smith, D. L.; Standley, C; Wale, N; Grenfell, B (2014). "The path of least resistance: Aggressive or moderate treatment?". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1794): 20140566. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0566. PMC 4211439. PMID 25253451.
  9. ↑ "Andrew F. Read, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology and Eberly Professor of Biotechnology". Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  10. ↑ Read, Andrew Fraser (1989). Comparative analyses of reproductive tactics (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 46544592.


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