Elspeth Garman
| Elspeth Garman | |
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| Fields | Molecular Biophysics, Crystallography |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
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Durham University University of Oxford |
Elspeth Garman is Professor of molecular biophysics at the University of Oxford and a former President of the British Crystallographic Association.[1] She is also Senior Kurti Research Fellow and Tutor for Graduates at Brasenose College, Oxford.[2] The "Garman limit", which is the radiation dose limit of a cryocooled protein crystal, is named after her.
Education and career
Garman studied physics at Durham University and then moved to the Linacre College, Oxford for a doctorate in nuclear physics. She switched to biophysics in 1987. Since then, she has co-authored more than 80 Protein Data Bank entries and contributed to techniques for macromolecular structure determination.[3] In particular, Garman has been amongst the pioneers of cryoprotection of macromolecular crystals[4] and has made major contributions to the study of the damage that X-rays induce in macromolecular crystals. In a seminal paper in 2006, Garman and collaborators established the radiation dose limit for cryocooled protein crystals ("Garman limit").[5]
In 2010 she gave the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture "Crystallography One Century AD (after Dorothy)".[6] In 2014 she was awarded the Rose Lecture and Medal at Kingston University[7] and the Humanitarian Award of the Women's International Film and Television Showcase.[8] In 2015 she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Senior Award and guest professorship at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging.[9] In 2016 she will receive the I. Fankuchen Award of the American Crystallographic Association.[10][11]
References
- ↑ "Previous BCA Councils". British Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- ↑ "Academic Staff: Professor Elspeth Garman". Brasenose College, Oxford. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- ↑ Garman, Elspeth F. (2014). "Developments in x-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules". Science 343 (6175): 1102–1108. doi:10.1126/science.1247829.
- ↑ Garman, Elspeth F.; Doublié, Sylvie (2003). "Cryocooling of Macromolecular Crystals: Optimization Methods". Methods in Enzymology 368: 188–216. doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(03)68011-0.
- ↑ Owen, Robin Leslie; Rudiño-Piñera, Enrique; Garman, Elspeth F. (2006). "Experimental determination of the radiation dose limit for cryocooled protein crystals". PNAS USA 103 (13): 4912–4917. doi:10.1073/pnas.0600973103.
- ↑ Cooper, Richard (2010-05-14). "Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2010". British Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ↑ "Elspeth Garman gives Rose Lecture at Kingston University". Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ↑ "Elspeth Garman: The Humanitarian Award – UK". Women's International Film and Television Showcase. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ↑ "Mildred Dresselhaus Awardees 2015 selected". Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ↑ "Awards Presented by the American Crystallographic Association". American Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
- ↑ Jordan, Julian (2015-11-19). "2016 American Crystallographic Association Fankuchen Award for Elspeth Garman". Department of Biochemistry. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2015-11-20.