Alan Coulson (born 1947) is a British biotechnology pioneer and genome scientist.
He is best known for his work on developing DNA sequencing technologies with Frederick Sanger and his contributions to the Caenorhabditis elegans and human genome projects.
[1] Under the mentorship of John Sulston, Coulson completed his PhD titled The Physical Map of the C. elegans Genome, in 1994.
[2] Coulson joined Sanger's group at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) as a technician in 1967, shortly after receiving his diploma.
[4] After Sanger's retirement in 1983, Coulson contributed to the physical mapping and genome sequencing project of the nematode C. elegans, led by John Sulston and Bob Waterston at the LMB and subsequently the Sanger Centre.