Prof. Dr. Laurence Daniel Hurst

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral Genetics, Functional Genome Research
Keywordsgenome level analysis, gene therapy, evolutionary systems biology, mutation rate, evolution
Honours and awards

2015: Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

2015: Fellow of the Royal Society

2015: Vice Chancellor’s Research Medal

2010: Genetics Society Medal

2004: Elected Member of EMBO

2003: Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityBath
InstitutionUniversity of Bath
InstituteMilner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Zsuzsanna IzsvakMax-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2023

Program(s)

2023Humboldt Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2024Radrizzani, S, Kudla, G, Iszvak, Z and Hurst, LD: Selection on synonymous sites: the unwanted transcript hypothesis. In: Nature Reviews Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-023-00686-7, 2024,