Laurence Hurst Scientist
Laurence D. Hurst is a Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at The University of Bath. Hurst completed his Bachelor of Arts in Zoology at Churchill College, Cambridge in 1987. After a year at Harvard University he returned to the UK, obtaining a D.Phil at the University of Oxford in 1991 under the supervision of W. D. Hamilton and Alan Grafen. He was a Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 1996 and has been a Professor at the University of Bath since 1997.His research interests include evolution, genetics and genomics using computational and mathematical techniques to understand the way genes and genomes evolve. This has resulted in work on housekeeping genes, gene orders and the evolution of drug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the evolution of sexual reproduction / sexual dimorphism.
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