Dr Richard Durbin

The Sanger Centre, Cambridge
Email: Richard.Durbin@sanger.ac.uk
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Richard Durbin studied at Cambridge University and received his B.A. (Hons) in Mathematics in 1982. He continued at Harvard University (Biophysics) and later at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in July 1987 on "Studies on the Development and Organisation of the Nervous System of Caenorhabditis elegans". During 1990 to 1996 he worked at the same laboratory on informatics for genome data management and analysis, in particular on the genome database ACEDB together with Jean Thierry-Mieg. Currently, Richard Durbin is Head of Informatics Division at the Sanger Centre.