title: Michael Akam
text: # Michael Akam
  
  Michael Edwin Akam FRS (born 19 June 1952, in Bromley, Kent) is a British zoologist. He is professorial fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology.
  
  He was Damon Runyan fellow at Stanford University, from 1979 to 1981. He is American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Michael Akam (Ed), The evolution of developmental mechanisms, Issue 1, Company of Biologists, 1994, ISBN 978-0-948601-43-9
  