Gideon Davies

Gideon Davies
Gideon Davies in 2010
Born	Gideon John Davies (1964-07-06) 6 July 1964 (age 52) Great Sutton, Cheshire
Nationality	British
Fields	Structural Enzymology Carbohydrate Biochemistry Glycobiology Biofuels
Institutions	University of York CNRS Grenoble EMBL Hamburg University of British Columbia
Alma mater	University of Bristol (BSc, PhD, DSc)
Thesis	Phosphoglycerate kinase from Bacillus stearothermophilus (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Herman Watson Len Hall
Doctoral students	Tracey Gloster Yuan He
Notable awards	Davy Medal (2015) FMedSci (2014) FRS (2010) EMBO member (2010) Gabor Medal (2010) DSc (2007) FRSC (2002)
Spouse	Valérie Marie-Andrée Ducros
Children	Two daughters
Website www.york.ac.uk/res/daviesgroup www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/d-g/gdavies

Gideon John Davies (born 1964) FRS FRSC FMedSci is a Professor of Chemistry in the York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL) at the University of York, in the UK.

Davies was educated at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in 1990 for research on the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase isolated from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus, and supervised by Herman Watson and Len Hall.

Following his PhD, Davies did postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) outstation in Hamburg working with Keith S. Wilson on the use of synchrotron radiation in protein crystallography and also at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Grenoble. in 1990 Davies moved to York to work with Dale Wigley and Guy Dodson on DNA 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.