Elspeth Garman

Elspeth Garman
Fields Molecular Biophysics, Crystallography
Institutions University of Oxford
Alma mater 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

  1. ↑ "Previous BCA Councils". British Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  2. ↑ "Academic Staff: Professor Elspeth Garman". Brasenose College, Oxford. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  3. ↑ Garman, Elspeth F. (2014). "Developments in x-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules". Science 343 (6175): 1102–1108. doi:10.1126/science.1247829.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Cooper, Richard (2010-05-14). "Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 2010". British Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  7. ↑ "Elspeth Garman gives Rose Lecture at Kingston University". Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  8. ↑ "Elspeth Garman: The Humanitarian Award – UK". Women's International Film and Television Showcase. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  9. ↑ "Mildred Dresselhaus Awardees 2015 selected". Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  10. ↑ "Awards Presented by the American Crystallographic Association". American Crystallographic Association. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  11. ↑ Jordan, Julian (2015-11-19). "2016 American Crystallographic Association Fankuchen Award for Elspeth Garman". Department of Biochemistry. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2015-11-20.

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