Draft:William E. Bradshaw and Christina M. Holzapfel

William E. Bradshaw and Christina M. Holzapfel
Christina Holzapfel and William Bradshaw
Christina Holzapfel and William Bradshaw collecting disease-bearing mosquitoes in 2015.
Born
William: Orange, New Jersey (1942)
Christina: Baltimore, Maryland (1942)
SpouseWilliam: Christina Holzapfel
Christina: William Bradshaw
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology and genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oregon, Imperial College, Tall Timbers Research Station, Harvard University, The University of Michigan, Princeton University
Websitehttps://bradshaw-holzapfel-lab.uoregon.edu

William Bradshaw (1942) and Christina Holzapfel (1942) are an American couple who are evolutionary biologists and geneticists at the University of Oregon. Although the scope of their work has traversed fields as diverse as the physics of light[1] to speciation of endemic plants in the Canary Islands,[2] their startling discovery[3] that recent climate change has penetrated to the level of the gene and is driving evolution in nature in as few as five years[4][5][6][7] awakened the world at large to the urgency of addressing this impending dilemma.[8][9][10][11] In 2007, their lab was distinguished by the National Science Foundation as one of 10 from among all disciplines "that best meets the primary mission of NSF for DISCOVERY, "to foster research that will advance frontiers of knowledge, emphasizing areas of greatest opportunity and potential benefit in establishing the nation as a global leader in fundamental and transformational science and engineering." Their work is memorialized through an NSF OPUS award to support a website, available in perpetuity, illustrating many of their diverse discoveries.

  1. ^ Bradshaw, William E. (March 24, 1972). "Action spectra for photoperiodic response in a diapausing mosquito" (PDF). Science. 175 (4028): 1361–1362. Bibcode:1972Sci...175.1361B. doi:10.1126/science.175.4028.1361. PMID 17813832.
  2. ^ Lems, Kornelius; Holzapfel, Christina (1974). Flora of the Canary Islands: The Cruciferae, the Crassulaceae, and the ferns and their allies. Annales del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Serie: Produción Vegetal (4 ed.). Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias. pp. 165–273.
  3. ^ Bradshaw, William E.; Holzapfel, Christina M. (December 4, 2001). "Genetic shift in photoperiodic response correlated with global warming" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 98 (25): 14509–14511. doi:10.1073/pnas.241391498. PMC 64712. PMID 11698659.
  4. ^ Bradshaw, William E.; Holzapfel, Christina M. (June 9, 2006). "Climate change – Evolutionary response to rapid climate change" (PDF). Science. 312 (5779): 1477–1478. doi:10.1126/science.1127000. PMID 16763134.
  5. ^ Bradshaw, William E.; Holzapfel, Christina M. (2008). "Genetic response to rapid climate change: it's seasonal timing that matters" (PDF). Molecular Ecology. 312 (1): 157–166. Bibcode:2008MolEc..17..157B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03509.x. PMID 17850269.
  6. ^ Bradshaw, William E.; Holzapfel, Christina M. (2010). "Light, time, and the physiology of biotic response to rapid climate change in animals" (PDF). Annual Review of Physiology. 72: 147–166. doi:10.1146/annurev-physiol-021909-135837. PMID 20148671.
  7. ^ Bradshaw, William E.; Zani, Peter A.; Holzapfel, Christina M. (2004). "Adaptation to temperate climates" (PDF). Evolution. 58 (8): 1748–1762. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00458.x. PMID 15446427.
  8. ^ "Changing Mosquito Genes -- Changing Planet". U.S. National Science Foundation.
  9. ^ "Boston Globe". Bradshaw-Holzapfel Lab.
  10. ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth (January 9, 2006). "Butterfly lessons: Insects and toads respond to global warming". The New Yorker.
  11. ^ Walsh, Bryan (July 3, 2009). "Why are Scotland's sheep shrinking?". No. 174. Time.