Richard M. Durbin

Richard Durbin FRS
Durbin in 2008
Born	Richard Michael Durbin (1960-12-30) 30 December 1960
Nationality	British
Education	Highgate School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Biological Sequence Analysis
Spouse	Julie Ahringer (m. 1996)
Awards	Mullard Award (1994) EMBO Member (2009) Gabor Medal (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Genomics Bioinformatics Human genetics Computational biology Genome evolution
Institutions	University of Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology Stanford University Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute King's College, Cambridge
Thesis	Studies on the development and organisation of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans (1987)
Doctoral advisor	John G. White
Doctoral students	Ewan Birney
Other notable students	Sean Eddy Heng Li Alex Bateman (postdocs)

Website	www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/richard-durbin

Richard Michael Durbin FRS (born 1960) is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader.