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'''John Brookfield''', born in 1955, is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Population genetics|population geneticist]]. He is [[Professor]] of [[Evolution]]ary [[Genetics]] at the [[University of Nottingham]]<ref name="nottingham">{{cite web|url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/people/john.brookfield|title=John Brookfield, School of Biology, University of Nottingham}}</ref>, in the School of [[Biology]].
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'''John Brookfield''', (born 30 May 1955), is a British [[Population genetics|population geneticist]]. He is [[Professor]] of [[Evolution]]ary [[Genetics]] at the [[University of Nottingham]],<ref name="nottingham">{{cite web|url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/people/john.brookfield|title=John Brookfield, School of Biology, University of Nottingham}}</ref> in the School of [[Biology]].


==Research summary==
==Research summary==
Brookfield is interested in how the [[genome]]s [[evolution|evolve]] and has recently focussed on the evolution of [[DNA sequences]] which control [[Developmental biology|development]], particularly in [[Drosophila]], and on the [[evolution]] of [[transposable elements]].
Brookfield is interested in how the [[genome]] [[evolution|evolves]] and has recently focussed on the evolution of [[DNA sequences]] which control [[Developmental biology|development]], particularly in [[Drosophila]], and on the [[evolution]] of [[transposable elements]].{{citation needed|date= September 2023}}


==Education, appointments and honours==
==Education, appointments and honours==
John Brookfield received his BA in [[Zoology]] from the [[University of Oxford]] 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Population Genetics at the [[University of London]] in 1980. Following a post as Research Demonstrator in Genetics at the University College of Swansea from 1979-1981, he became a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Genetics at The [[National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences]], [[North Carolina]] from 1981-1983. Returning to the UK, he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the [[University of Leicester]] from 1983-1986. He is now [[Professor]] of evolutionary genetics at the [[University of Nottingham]].
Brookfield received his BA in [[Zoology]] from the [[University of Oxford]] 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Population Genetics at the [[University of London]] in 1980. Following a post as Research Demonstrator in Genetics at the University College of Swansea from 1979 to 1981, he became a visiting fellow in the Laboratory of Genetics at The [[National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences]], [[North Carolina]] from 1981 to 1983. Returning to the UK, he became a lecturer in genetics at the [[University of Leicester]] from 1983 to 1986. He is now [[Professor]] of evolutionary genetics at the [[University of Nottingham]].<ref name="nottingham" />


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Brookfield is an invited Fellow of the Society of Biology <ref name="SoB List of Fellows">{{cite web|url=http://www.societyofbiology.org/membership/individual-membership/list-of-fellows|title=Society of Biology List of Fellows}}</ref> was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 2009, and has served as vice-president (External Relations) of the Genetics Society.<ref name="GS committee">{{cite web|url=http://www.genetics.org.uk/About/CommitteeMembers.aspx|title=The Genetics Society Committee}}</ref>

He served on the UK [[Research Assessment Exercise|RAE]] panel for the assessment of Biological Sciences in both 2001 and 2008.[http://www.rae.ac.uk/panels/main/d/bio/ ]
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John Brookfield is a invited Fellow of the Society of Biology <ref name="SoB List of Fellows">{{cite web||url=http://www.societyofbiology.org/membership/individual-membership/list-of-fellows|title=Society of Biology List of Fellows}}</ref> and Vice-President (External Relations) of the Genetics Society. <ref name="GS committee">{{cite web||url=http://www.genetics.org.uk/About/CommitteeMembers.aspx|title=The Genetics Society Committee}}</ref>


==Popular Science==
==Popular Science==


In 2006, John Brookfield was invited to comment on the [[Chicken or the egg]] controversy, along with a number of others. All parties came down on the egg first side of the debate. John gives his reasoning as "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken. Thus the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken that it would develop into, and thus would itself be a member of the species of chicken."<ref name="chicken_egg_guardian">{{cite web|| author=James Randerson|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/may/26/uknews|title=Chicken and egg question answered, Guardian}}</ref>
In 2006, Brookfield was invited to comment on the [[Chicken or the egg]] controversy, along with a number of others. All parties came down on the egg first side of the debate. Brookfield gives his reasoning as "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken. Thus the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken that it would develop into, and thus would itself be a member of the species of chicken."<ref name="chicken_egg_guardian">{{cite news| author=James Randerson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/may/26/uknews|title=Chicken and egg question answered, Guardian | location=London|work=The Guardian|date=26 May 2006}}</ref>


To further public understanding of evolutionary genetics, Brookfield has created a podcast explaining some of the issues,<ref name="evo_gen podcast">{{cite web| author=John Brookfield|url=http://www.pulse-project.org/node/397|title=Evolutionary Genetics Podcast, pulseproject.org}}</ref> and as part of the Nottingham University 200 years of [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] Celebrations, delivered Darwin's famous lecture On the Origin of the Species, in full Victorian dress.<ref name="Brookfield Darwin Lecture">{{cite web| author=|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAyXsonaGu8|title=John Brookfield lecturing as Charles Darwin| website=[[YouTube]] }}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> He has additionally written in the media about DNA profiling.<ref name="How DNA profiling works">{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Professor-John-Brookfield-DNA-profiling-works/story-12166798-detail/story.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421115232/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Professor-John-Brookfield-DNA-profiling-works/story-12166798-detail/story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-21|title=How DNA profiling works}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) An investigation of the cause of low variability on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 18, 2260-2269.
Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) An investigation of the cause of low variability on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 18, 2260–2269.


Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) Genome evolution. Pp. 351–372 in: ''Handbook of Statistical Genetics''. Eds. M. Bishop, D. Balding & C. Cannings John Wiley Chichester.
Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) Genome evolution. Pp. 351–372 in: ''Handbook of Statistical Genetics''. Eds. M. Bishop, D. Balding & C. Cannings John Wiley Chichester.


Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Evolutionary dynamics of a selfishly spreading gene that stimulates sexual reproduction in a partially sexual population. ''J. Evolutionary Biology'' 15, 42-48.
Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Evolutionary dynamics of a selfishly spreading gene that stimulates sexual reproduction in a partially sexual population. ''J. Evolutionary Biology'' 15, 42–48.


Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Mechanisms regulating the copy numbers of six LTR retrotransposons in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. ''Chromosoma'' 110, 511-518.
Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Mechanisms regulating the copy numbers of six LTR retrotransposons in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. ''Chromosoma'' 110, 511–518.


Edwards, R.J., Sockett, R.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) A simple method for genome-wide screening for advantageous insertions of mobile DNAs in Escherichia coli. ''Current Biology'' 12, 863-867.
Edwards, R.J., Sockett, R.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) A simple method for genome-wide screening for advantageous insertions of mobile DNAs in Escherichia coli. ''Current Biology'' 12, 863–867.


Edwards, R. J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Transiently beneficial insertions could maintain mobile DNA sequences in variable environments. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 20, 30-37.
Edwards, R. J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Transiently beneficial insertions could maintain mobile DNA sequences in variable environments. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 20, 30–37.


Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Evolution of spatial expression pattern. ''Evolution and Development'' 5, 593-599.
Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Evolution of spatial expression pattern. ''Evolution and Development'' 5, 593–599.


Phinchongsakuldit, J., MacArthur, S., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2004) Evolution of developmental genes: Molecular microevolution of enhancer sequences at the Ubx locus in Drosophila and its impact on developmental phenotypes. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 21, 348-363.
Phinchongsakuldit, J., MacArthur, S., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2004) Evolution of developmental genes: Molecular microevolution of enhancer sequences at the Ubx locus in Drosophila and its impact on developmental phenotypes. ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 21, 348–363.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/contact/academics/brookfield/overview.phtml?P=1&R=1&S=&ID=21&from=peg&m1=&m2= Lab Home Page]
*[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/contact/academics/brookfield/overview.phtml?P=1&R=1&S=&ID=21&from=peg&m1=&m2= Lab Home Page]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=Brookfield%20JF%5BAu%5D%20AND%20Nottingham%5BAd%5D PubMed Publications]
*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=Brookfield%20JF%5BAu%5D%20AND%20Nottingham%5BAd%5D PubMed Publications]


==References==
==References==
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John Brookfield
John Brookfield (2012)
Born (1955-05-30) 30 May 1955 (age 69)
Liverpool, United Kingdom
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of London
Scientific career
FieldsPopulation Genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham
University of Leicester
Thesis (1980)
Websitewww.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/people/john.brookfield

John Brookfield, (born 30 May 1955), is a British population geneticist. He is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Nottingham,[1] in the School of Biology.

Research summary

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Brookfield is interested in how the genome evolves and has recently focussed on the evolution of DNA sequences which control development, particularly in Drosophila, and on the evolution of transposable elements.[citation needed]

Education, appointments and honours

[edit]

Brookfield received his BA in Zoology from the University of Oxford 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Population Genetics at the University of London in 1980. Following a post as Research Demonstrator in Genetics at the University College of Swansea from 1979 to 1981, he became a visiting fellow in the Laboratory of Genetics at The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina from 1981 to 1983. Returning to the UK, he became a lecturer in genetics at the University of Leicester from 1983 to 1986. He is now Professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham.[1]

Brookfield is an invited Fellow of the Society of Biology [2] was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 2009, and has served as vice-president (External Relations) of the Genetics Society.[3] He served on the UK RAE panel for the assessment of Biological Sciences in both 2001 and 2008.[1]

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In 2006, Brookfield was invited to comment on the Chicken or the egg controversy, along with a number of others. All parties came down on the egg first side of the debate. Brookfield gives his reasoning as "The first chicken must have differed from its parents by some genetic change, perhaps a very subtle one, but one which caused this bird to be the first ever to fulfil our criteria for truly being a chicken. Thus the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken that it would develop into, and thus would itself be a member of the species of chicken."[4]

To further public understanding of evolutionary genetics, Brookfield has created a podcast explaining some of the issues,[5] and as part of the Nottingham University 200 years of Darwin Celebrations, delivered Darwin's famous lecture On the Origin of the Species, in full Victorian dress.[6] He has additionally written in the media about DNA profiling.[7]

Bibliography

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Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) An investigation of the cause of low variability on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18, 2260–2269.

Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2001) Genome evolution. Pp. 351–372 in: Handbook of Statistical Genetics. Eds. M. Bishop, D. Balding & C. Cannings John Wiley Chichester.

Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Evolutionary dynamics of a selfishly spreading gene that stimulates sexual reproduction in a partially sexual population. J. Evolutionary Biology 15, 42–48.

Carr, M., Soloway, J.R., Robinson, T.E. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) Mechanisms regulating the copy numbers of six LTR retrotransposons in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Chromosoma 110, 511–518.

Edwards, R.J., Sockett, R.E., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2002) A simple method for genome-wide screening for advantageous insertions of mobile DNAs in Escherichia coli. Current Biology 12, 863–867.

Edwards, R. J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Transiently beneficial insertions could maintain mobile DNA sequences in variable environments. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 30–37.

Johnson, L.J. and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2003) Evolution of spatial expression pattern. Evolution and Development 5, 593–599.

Phinchongsakuldit, J., MacArthur, S., and Brookfield, J.F.Y. (2004) Evolution of developmental genes: Molecular microevolution of enhancer sequences at the Ubx locus in Drosophila and its impact on developmental phenotypes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21, 348–363.

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References

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  1. ^ a b "John Brookfield, School of Biology, University of Nottingham".
  2. ^ "Society of Biology List of Fellows".
  3. ^ "The Genetics Society Committee".
  4. ^ James Randerson (26 May 2006). "Chicken and egg question answered, Guardian". The Guardian. London.
  5. ^ John Brookfield. "Evolutionary Genetics Podcast, pulseproject.org".
  6. ^ "John Brookfield lecturing as Charles Darwin". YouTube.[dead YouTube link]
  7. ^ "How DNA profiling works". Archived from the original on 2013-04-21.
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