Nationality British Role Professor | Name Gideon Davies | |
Institutions University of YorkCNRS GrenobleEMBL HamburgUniversity of British Columbia Thesis Phosphoglycerate kinase from Bacillus stearothermophilus (1990) Notable awards FMedSci (2014)FRS (2010)EMBO member (2010)Gabor Medal (2010)DSc (2007)FRSC (2002) | ||
Doctoral students Tracey GlosterYuan He Doctoral advisor Herman WatsonLen Hall | ||
Gideon John Davies (born 1964) FRS FRSC FMedSci is a Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor in the York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL) at the University of York, in the UK.
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Education
Davies was educated at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in 1990 for research on the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase isolated from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus, and supervised by Herman Watson and Len Hall.
Career
Following his PhD, Davies did postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) outstation in Hamburg working with Keith S. Wilson on the use of synchrotron radiation in protein crystallography and also at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Grenoble. in 1990, Davies moved to York to work with Dale Wigley and Guy Dodson on DNA gyrase, starting his own group within YSBL in 1996 upon receiving a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He was appointed Professor at the University of York in 2001 and awarded a Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professorship in 2016. He has collaborated with Alywn Jones, Bernard Henrissat, Steve Withers and David Vocadlo.
Research
Davies research investigates the biological chemistry of carbohydrates, from their structure to their roles in enzymology, glycobiology, use as biofuels and implications for gut microbiota. His research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), European Research Council (ERC) and Alzheimer's Research UK.
Awards and honours
Davies was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2010. His nomination reads:
Davies was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2014, his nomination reads
Davies was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2010, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the University of Bristol in 2007.
Personal life
Davies married Valérie Marie-Andrée Ducros in 1999 and has two daughters.