Randy Read

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Randy Read
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Randy Read in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born Randy John Read
(1957-06-09) June 9, 1957 (age 66)[1]
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Institutions University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Alberta (BSc, PhD)
Thesis X-ray crystallographic studies on serine proteinases and their protein inhibitors (1986)
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Website
www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk/Personal/randy/

Randy John Read (born 9 June 1957)[1] FRS[7] is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Protein Crystallography, in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) at the University of Cambridge.[2][8][9][10]

Education

Read was educated at the University of Alberta, Edmonton where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 and a PhD in 1986 for X-ray crystallographic studies on Serine proteases and their protein inhibitors.[1][11]

Career

Following his PhD, Read was appointed Assistant Professor from 1988 to 1993 and Associate Professor from 1993 to 1998 at the University of Alberta.[1]

Research

Read's research interests are in protein crystallography and maximum likelihood.[2] His research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature,[12][13][14] Science,[15] the Journal of Applied Crystallography[3] Acta Crystallographica,[6][16][17] Structure,[18][19] PNAS,[20] the Journal of Molecular Biology[21][22] and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism[23]

Awards and honours

Read was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Professor Read is known internationally for his outstanding and fundamental contributions to the development of macromolecular crystallographic software. His application of maximum likelihood based algorithms to the solution of macromolecular crystal structures by molecular replacement (a technique that uses a known structure of a homologue to solve an unknown structure) has resulted in software (Phaser) that is foremost in the field. He also devised and demonstrated an improved likelihood target function for model refinement that has been adopted by all major refinement programs. In addition, Professor Read has led structural work that has made significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms of proteins relevant to disease (bacterial toxins and serpins).[7]

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Randy Read's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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  4. Phaser Crystallographic Software, University of Cambridge
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  8. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  9. Randy Read's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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