Laurence Daniel Hurst was born on 6 January 1965 and 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.
13 Facts About Laurence Hurst
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Laurence Hurst was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 1996 and has been a professor at the University of Bath since 1997.
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Laurence Hurst showed that this was because the genetic code is structured in a way that renders it highly error-proof.
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Laurence Hurst showed how synonymous mutations can disrupt the way gene transcripts are processed.
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Similarly, in showing that genomes are arranged into gene expression domains, Laurence Hurst revealed that genes can affect the expression of other genes in their vicinity.
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Laurence Hurst was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
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Laurence Hurst is a leading authority on evolution of genetic systems.
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Laurence Hurst showed that the genetic code is adapted to minimise errors, synonymous mutations in mammals are under selection and gene order is non-random.
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Laurence Hurst was first to recognise the impact of gene expression levels on protein evolution.
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Laurence Hurst spearheaded novel approaches to evolutionary genetics deriving fitness from underlying biochemistry to predict the outcome of laboratory models.
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Laurence Hurst, collaborating with cell biologists, identified the human-specific pluripotency gene network and discovered human naive stem cells.
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Laurence Hurst was awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London in 2003, and elected a member of European Molecular Biology Organization in 2004.
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Laurence Hurst was awarded The Genetics Society Medal in 2010.