Jonathan Hodgkin#
| Membership Number: | 1189 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/professor-j-hodgkin http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?pageid=581 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor of Genetics and Head of Genetics Unit, University of Oxford; Fellow of Keble College, Oxford
- 1992 Curator, C. elegans Genetic Map and Nomenclature
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental and molecular genetics of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, with particular reference to nematode-bacterial interactions, innnate immunity and pathogenesis.
- Developmental morphogenesis
- Sex determination
- Germline immortality and telomere function
- Natural variation
- Genomics
- Genetic nomenclature
- Behavioural genetics and neurogenetics
- Hypoxia
- Informational suppression and gene interaction
- Gene mapping
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Genetics Society Medal
- Member of Academia Europaea
