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 , Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, formerly 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 , inventor of the Punnett Square Michael Ashburner , 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”.
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