The talk will have two components. In the first part the use of protein engineering will be discussed in creating a new class of hybrid macrocycles. In the second part, the talk will focus on the Rosalind Franklin Institute and what it will do for the UK.
Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in 1989 with a BSc in Chemistry. As a Carnegie scholar, Professor Naismith obtain a PhD in Structural Biochemistry from Manchester in 1992. Following a NATO fellowship (1993 - 1994) in the lab of Steve Sprang in Dallas, he took a lectureship at St Andrews Chemistry in 1995. Professor Naismith has been awarded the Colworth Medal, Corday Morgan Medal, Dextra Medal and the Jeremy Knowles Medal. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005, the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012, the Royal Society 2014 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016, and was elected a member of EMBO in 2010. In 2019 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prizes. He graduated as a DSc from St Andrews in 2016 where he held the Bishop Wardlaw Chair and was Director of the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex. Professor Naismith moved to the University of Oxford in 2017.