Terri Attwood
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Portrait of Terri Attwood by Linda Bussey
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| Born | Teresa K. Attwood November 20, 1959 |
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Bioinformatics Protein fingerprinting |
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| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Thesis | Chromonic mesophases (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | John E. Lydon |
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| Notable awards | Royal Society University Research Fellowship 1993-2002 |
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Teresa K. Attwood is a Professor of Bioinformatics in the School of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 1999 and at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2002.
Attwood gained her Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982. She was awarded a PhD, also in Biophysics, two years later, in 1984 under the supervision of John E. Lydon studying chromonic mesophases.
Attwood undertook postdoctoral research at Leeds until 1993, when she moved to University College London for five years before moving to the University of Manchester in 1999. Her research concerns protein sequence alignment and protein analysis.
Inspired by the creation of PROSITE, Attwood developed a method of protein fingerprinting and used this to establish the PRINTS database. With Amos Bairoch she sought to unify work on protein family classification and annotation, eventually jointly securing a European Union grant with Rolf Apweiler to establish InterPro, with Pfam, ProDom and Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL as consortium partners in 1997.
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