Laurence Hurst

Laurence Hurst
Laurence Hurst in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born	Laurence Daniel Hurst (1965-01-06) 6 January 1965 (age 52) Ilkley, Yorkshire
Fields	Genetics Evolution
Institutions	University of Bath University of Oxford University of Cambridge Harvard University
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis	Intra-genomic conflict and evolution (1991)
Doctoral advisor	W. D. Hamilton Alan Grafen
Doctoral students	Gilean McVean
Notable awards	Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2003) EMBO member (2004) The Genetics Society Medal (2010) FMedSci FRS (2015)
Website go.bath.ac.uk/ldhurst

Laurence Daniel Hurst (born 1965)FMedSci FRS is a Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath and the director of the Milner Centre for Evolution.

Hurst was educated at Truro School and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences (Zoology) at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1987. After a year at Harvard University he returned to the UK, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1991 for research supervised by W. D. Hamilton and Alan Grafen.

Hurst 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.