Name Elspeth Garman | Institution University of Oxford | |
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Alma mater Durham University, University of Oxford Fields Molecular biophysics, Crystallography | ||
Institutions University of Oxford | ||
Professor elspeth garman delivers the 2010 dorothy hodgkin memorial lecture
Elspeth Garman is Professor of molecular biophysics at the University of Oxford and a former President of the British Crystallographic Association. She is also Senior Kurti Research Fellow and Tutor for Graduates at Brasenose College, Oxford. The "Garman limit", which is the radiation dose limit of a cryocooled protein crystal, is named after her.
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- Professor elspeth garman delivers the 2010 dorothy hodgkin memorial lecture
- Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016 What crystallography has done for the world
- Education and career
- References
[Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2016] What crystallography has done for the world
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. In particular, Garman has been amongst the pioneers of cryoprotection of macromolecular crystals 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").
In 2010 she gave the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture "Crystallography One Century AD (after Dorothy)". In 2014 she was awarded the Rose Lecture and Medal at Kingston University and the Humanitarian Award of the Women's International Film and Television Showcase. In 2015 she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Senior Award and guest professorship at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging. In 2016 she received the I. Fankuchen Award of the American Crystallographic Association.