Gideon John Davies Federal Reserve System FRSC FMedSci is a Professor of Chemistry in the York Structural Biology Laboratory at the University of York, in the United Kingdom.
Education
Davies was educated at the where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 for research on the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase isolated from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus, and supervised by Herman Watson and Len Hall.
Career
In 1990 Davies moved to York to work with Dale Wigley and Guy Dodson on deoxyribonucleic acid gyrase. He was appointed Professor at the University of York in 2001. He has collaborated with Alywn Jones, Bernard Henrissat, Steve Withers and David Vocadlo.
Davies research investigates the biological chemistry of carbohydrates, from their structure to their roles in enzymology, glycobiology, use as biofuels and implications for microbiota.
His research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), European Council (European Research Council) and Alzheimer"s United Kingdom.
Membership
Royal Society]
Davies was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (European Molecular Biology Organization) in 2010, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and was awarded a Doctor of Science (Doctor of Science) degree from the University of Bristol in 2007.