The Inaugural Baddiley Lecture
The Inaugural Baddiley Lecture was delivered by Professor Sir John Walker FRS.
Professor Sir John Walker FRS
- D.Phil. (PhD) at Oxford with Sir Edward Abraham, of penicillin and cephalosporin fame, and a long-term friend and colleague of Jim Baddiley
- Post-doctoral positions in the USA, then at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, working with Ieuan Harris and Fred Sanger
- Main career research theme on the structure and function of ATP synthase
- Atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of ATP synthase gave new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world
- has received numerous prizes and awards for this work, including the
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997
Sir John is currently Director of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit.
The nexus of chemical vs enzymatic synthesis of ATP made Sir John Walker the perfect person to deliver the inaugural Baddiley Lecture.
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