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Richard Durbin is the Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, where he leads a research group in the Department of Genetics, and serves as an Associate Faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. A computational biologist, he earned a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1982, followed by a Fulbright fellowship in biophysics at Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1987 on the development and organization of the C. elegans nervous system. He conducted postdoctoral research in neural networks at Stanford University before joining the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a staff member and junior group leader, contributing to the C. elegans genome project. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, he advanced through roles including Senior Group Leader, Head of Informatics, Deputy Director, Joint Head of Human Genetics, and Acting Head of Computational Genomics.