Judy Armitage

Judy Armitage
Born Judith Patricia Armitage
(1951-02-21) February 21, 1951
Fields Molecular and cellular biochemistry
Institutions University of Oxford
University College London
Merton College, Oxford
Alma mater University College London
Thesis Comparative biochemistry and physiology of the short and long forms of Proteus mirabilis (1976)
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)[1]
Spouse John Jefferys
Children 2

Judith Patricia "Judy" Armitage FRS (born 1951) is a British professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Oxford.

Education

She went to Selby Girls' High School, an all-female grammar school, then located in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In her sixth form, the school became the co-educational Selby Grammar School.

Armitage was educated at University College London, and was awarded a PhD in 1976 for research on the bacterium Proteus mirabilis.[2]

Research

Armitage's research is largely based on the motion of bacteria by flagellar rotation and the chemotactic mechanisms used to control that motion.[3] Armitage has been based in Oxford since 1985 and was appointed professor in 1996. Armitage is a fellow of Merton College, Oxford[4] and the director of the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Systems Biology.[5][6][7][8]

Awards and honours

Armitage was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. Her nomination reads:

“ Judith Armitage is distinguished for pioneering contributions to the understanding of spatio-temporal complexity and cellular organisation in bacteria. Combining biophysics and in vivo light microscopy with molecular genetics she discovered a new protein partitioning system that exerts spatial control over sensory signalling pathways. Co-crystal structural studies of a sensory kinase and its cognate response regulator directly revealed single amino acid changes involved in pathway discrimination. The first direct measurements of the dynamics of rotor and stator proteins in rotating flagellar motors revealed exchange with free protein pools, an observation which fundamentally changed our understanding of bacterial motility and behaviour.[1] ”

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Judith Armitage FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-08-20.
  2. ↑ Armitage, Judy (1976). Comparative biochemistry and physiology of the short and long forms of Proteus mirabilis (PhD thesis). University College London.
  3. ↑ Armitage, Judy Profile at the University of Oxford
  4. ↑ Armitage, Judy Profile at Merton College
  5. ↑ Home Page Oxford University Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
  6. ↑ Wadhams, G. H.; Armitage, J. P. (2004). "Making sense of it all: Bacterial chemotaxis". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5 (12): 1024–1037. doi:10.1038/nrm1524. PMID 15573139.
  7. ↑ Armitage, J. P. (1999). "Bacterial Tactic Responses". Advances in Microbial Physiology 41: 229–289. doi:10.1016/S0065-2911(08)60168-X. ISBN 9780120277414.
  8. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
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