Peter Keightley

Peter Keightley
Peter Keightley at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
Born	Peter D. Keightley
Fields	Evolutionary genetics Genomics Murid rodents Drosophila Chlamydomonas
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Thesis	Studies of quantitative genetic variation (1989)
Doctoral advisor	William G. Hill
Doctoral students	Daniel Gaffney Daniel Halligan Matthew Hartfield Athanasios Kousathanas Sujai Kumar Lél Eöry
Notable awards	FRS (2014)
Website www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/pkeightl

Peter D. Keightley FRS is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Keightley was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in 1989 for research on genetic variation supervised by William G. Hill.

Keightley leads a laboratory which works on evolutionary genetics and the evolutionary impact of new mutations on molecular genetic and quantitative trait variation and fitness. His research investitages genetic variation and adaptation through the analysis of nucleotide variation within natural populations and between different species.

Keightley's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Keightley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads:

Keightley's uncle (Mike Keightley) was involved in the investigation of the Boston Strangler.