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Illuminating atoms: How crystallography changed the world – Q&A
To accompany the exhibition Illuminating Atoms, the Royal Albert Hall
has teamed up with the Science & Technology Facilities Council to
present a very special Q&A with Professor Elspeth Garman.
Professor Garman will describe how X-ray crystallography is used to determine molecular structures, helping us to
understand diseases and develop drugs to control them. Beginning with the
methods pioneered over a century ago by father and son William and Lawrence
Bragg, Elspeth will discuss how their legacy lives on at the forefront of modern
drug discovery. Thanks to their contributions, the 3-dimensional shapes of
complex biological molecules can be found, helping us to understand and
counter many diseases and viruses affecting people all over the globe.
Elspeth Garman is Professor of Molecular Biophysics and
Director of the University of Oxford's Doctoral Training Centre Systems Biology
Programme. As well as determining several key protein structures (e.g. from TB
and bird flu), her group works to improve X-ray diffraction experiments on protein
crystals. As an expert on the effects of cryocooling and radiation damage on
delicate crystals, Elspeth has appeared on BBC Radio and at the Cheltenham
Science Festival.
Elspeth Garman is also Co-editor of the IUCr journal Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological
Crystallography and Guest Editor of a series of special issues in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation on
X-ray damage to biological crystalline samples; you can see the latest special
issue here.
Tickets include a glass of wine on arrival and access to the
exhibition before the event from 6pm.
To find out
more follow this link to the Royal
Albert Hall.
