Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

The Department of Genetics is a department of the University of Cambridge that conducts research and teaching in genetics.

Research
, 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, 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

, 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”.