Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Purpose	Research and teaching in Genetics
Head of Department	Steve Russell
Parent organization	University of Cambridge
Website	www.gen.cam.ac.uk

The Department of Genetics is a department of the University of Cambridge that conducts research and teaching in genetics.

Research

As of 2017, the department has 83 researchers over 27 research groups, studying functional genomics, systems biology, developmental biology, cell biology, epigenetic inheritance, microbial genetics and evolution and population genetics.

Notable academic staff

• Anne Ferguson-Smith FRS FMedSci , Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Head of the Department
• Richard Durbin FRS, Honorary Professor of Computational genomics, Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Julie Ahringer FMedSci, Professor of Genetics and Genomics, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, and Director of the Gurdon Institute
• David Glover FRS FRSE, Wellcome Investigator in the Department of Genetics, formerly Balfour Professor of Genetics

As of 2017, the department also has 50-65 graduate students and about 30 Part II Tripos undergraduate students.

Emeritus and alumni

Notable alumni of the department include:

• Reginald Punnett FRS , inventor of the Punnett Square
• Michael Ashburner FRS , gene ontologist and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
• Ronald Fisher, statistical geneticist, who has been described as “a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science”.