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The Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford together with UNESCO and the International Union of Crystallography request the pleasure of your company at The Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the award of Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the International Year of Crystallography Wednesday 29th October 2014 You are warmly invited to attend a one-day symposium that aims to recognise Dorothy Hodgkin’s legacy and mark the award of her Nobel Prize. Her field, crystallography, underpins all of the sciences today and has an extensive range of applications within the agro-food, aeronautic, computer, electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries and more. 45 scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize over the past century for work that is either directly or indirectly related to crystallography, and yet it remains a field relatively unknown to the general public. This year UNESCO has joined forces with the International Union of Crystallography to promote education and public awareness, and we are delighted to contribute to this effort with the Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium. PROGRAMME 2:45 pm Tea & Coffee, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall 3:00 pm Hidden Glory, Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall A filmed performance of a short, one-woman play about the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin, followed by Q&A with the playwright Georgina Ferry 4:00 pm Registration, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford 4:10 pm Welcome, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville College Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission 4:30 pm Keynote Talk: A Hundred Years of Visualising Molecules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Professor (Sir) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge 5:30 pm Tea & Coffee, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford 5:45 pm Panel Discussion, Using crystallography to help solve the world’s great medical problems: from Dorothy Hodgkin into the 21st century, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Biographies of panel participants may be found overleaf 7:15 pm Drinks Reception, Somerville College, The Old College Bar 8:00 pm Supper, Somerville College, Dining Hall The Symposium welcomes academics, students, Somerville and Oxford alumni, representatives of scientific bodies and institutions, the media and members of the general public. The majority of the programme is free to attend. Tickets for supper including wine will be £35 per person and students are offered a reduced rate of £15 per person. To register, please visit https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/ somerville/dorothy-hodgkin-symposium or ring the Somerville Development Office on 01865 280 626. Space is limited, so prompt booking is recommended, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please see the biographies of participants overleaf. DOROTHY HODGKIN was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She studied at Somerville as an undergraduate and spent her career there, as a Tutorial Fellow and then University Professor. She is best known for advancing the technique of x-ray crystallography in the study of biomolecules, and is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field. Her work was honoured with many distinctions during her career, including the Fellowship of the Royal Society (RS) in 1946, the RS Royal Medal in 1956, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 and the Order of Merit in 1965. She remains the only British woman to have won a Nobel Prize for science. PROF JUDITH ARMITAGE is a Fellow of PROF MACIEJ NALECZ is a biochemist and Merton College, Oxford and serves as is the Director of the Division of Science Director of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Policy and Capacity Building for the United Systems Biology. She is a Fellow of the Nations’ Educational Scientific and Cultural Royal Society. Her research is concentrated on Organisation (UNESCO). Maciej is also a bacterial behaviour and movement and using systems biology to former Chair of the Fellowships Committee for the Federation of model sensory pathways. European Biochemical Societies. GEORGINA FERRY is an accomplished DR ALICE PROCHASKA became Principal of science writer, editor and broadcaster who Somerville College in 2010, having graduated is a member of the Association of British from the College with both a BA and D.Phil Science Writers and wrote the first, and highly in Modern History. Prior to taking up her role acclaimed, biography of Dorothy Hodgkin, as Principal, Dr Prochaska was the University which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Librarian at Yale University. Dr Prochaska is a Fellow of the Royal Marsh Biography Award. A 2014 Bloomsbury Reader edition Historical Society. was released in September. PROF ELSPETH GARMAN is a Fellow of KEYNOTE SPEAKER Brasenose College, Oxford and was previously PROF (SIR) VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN the President of the British Crystallographic is one of the most prominent structural Association. Her research focuses on innovating biologists in the world, and in 2009 he improved methods for macromolecular shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. crystallography to facilitate structure solution. Venki took up his current post in the Medical Research Council Laboratory PROF MATTHEW HIGGINS is a Fellow in of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 1999. He is a Fellow Biochemistry at Somerville College, Oxford of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, with his primary research focused on the a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and was structural studies of the malaria parasite and knighted in 2012 for services to Molecular Biology. Among his causes of the disease. Matt and his team have many honours, Venki was also the recipient of India’s second contributed to the discovery of the adhesion receptor found in highest civilian honour in 2010, the Padma Vibhushan. extreme cases of malaria. PROF SUSAN LEA is a Fellow of Wadham DR WENDY WATSON-WRIGHT is the Assistant College, Oxford and leader of her research Director General and Executive Secretary of the group at the Sir William Dunn School of UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Pathology as well as Co-Director of the Commission. Dr. Watson-Wright gained a Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines. PhD in Physiology from Dalhousie University Susan’s pioneering research focuses on microbiology and vaccines in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has held eminent positions on several and her studies have paved the way for opportunities for new boards including the Canadian Foundation for Climate and vaccination methods. Atmospheric Science and served as Assistant Deputy Minister in Fisheries and Oceans Canada. DR ANDREW LEACH is Director in Computational and Structural Chemistry at DR MICHELE ZEMA is the Project Manager GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development for the International Year of Crystallography where he is currently responsible for the at the International Union of Crystallography global Biomolecular Structure group covering and lecturer in crystallography in the protein X-ray crystallography, biophysics and biological mass Department of Earth and Environmental spectrometry. He leads GSK’s worldwide effort in fragment-based Sciences at the University of Pavia, Italy. Michele’s research drug discovery. He also serves on the Board of Governors for the specialises in mineralogical crystallography and inorganic Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. crystal chemistry. SPECIAL THANKS to our eminent panel, special guests and also to those who offered invaluable advice and guidance, including Prof Tim Softley, Prof Mark Sansom, Prof Matthew Wood, Prof Richard Cooper, Juste Jean-Paul Ngome Abiaga and Lucy Erickson. PARTICULAR THANKS to Dr Ahmed Fahmi, Programme Specialist at UNESCO, who was instrumental in driving the programme and educational content of this event. .
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