Michael Harvey Hastings
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Nationality | British |
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Thesis | Aspects of the ecology of sandy shore crustacea |
Doctoral advisor | Ernest Naylor |
Website | www2 |
Michael Harvey Hastings FMedSci FRS is a British neuroscientist who works at the Medical Research Council MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK. Hastings is known for his contributions to the current understanding of biological clocks in mammals and marine invertebrates.[1]
Background
Hastings was admitted to the University of Liverpool to study marine biology (1974) and his PhD was spent at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Man (1977–80). With a view to becoming a science teacher, he took a Post-graduate Certificate of Education (Technical) at the Victoria University of Manchester, but then elected to pursue a career in biological research. He is married to neuroscientist Angela Charlotte Roberts (University of Cambridge).
Career and research
Hastings’ PhD work introduced him to biological clocks, in the context of tidal and semi-lunar rhythms in the marine isopod crustacean Eurydice pulchra (Leach).
Awards and honours
- 1996 - Mortyn Jones Prize, British Society for Neuroendocrinology
- 2007 - “Aschoff’s Rule”, Gordon Conference on Chronobiology
- 2008 - Elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2008 - Elected as President of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythm
- 2010 - Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 2013 - Special Award Lecturer, British Society for Neuroendocrinology
- 2014 - Ellison-Cliffe Lecture Prize and Medal, Royal Society of Medicine
- 2018 - Brenner Lecturer, The Salk Institute
- 2018 - MRC Plenary Lecturer at the Society for Toxicology
References
- ^ "The Royal Society, Biography - Michael Hastings".
- PMID 24076244.
- S2CID 49357675.