Benjamin Guy Davis (August 8, 1970 -) is a British chemical and biochemical professor at the University of Oxford. (Photo quote:University of Oxford, Dept. of Chemistry)
• Education and Experiences
1993 Graduated from the University of Oxford
1996 Ph.D., the University of Oxford (Professor George Freet)
1996-1998 Doctoral researcher, the University of Toronto (Professor J. Bryan Jones)
1998 Associate Professor, Durham University
2001 Dyson Perrins Laboratory, the University of Oxford
2005 – Current Professor Dyson Perrins Institute, the University of Oxford
• Awards and Honors
1999 Meldola Medal and Prize
2015 Fellow of Royal Society (FRS)
• Research
His group is engaged in understanding molecular biology on synthetic biology, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry etc from the perspective of chemistry.
Synthesis of glycoproteins and related biofunctional chemicals
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• References
- “Methods for converting cysteine to dehydroalanine on peptides and proteins” Chalker, J.; Gunnoo, S.; Boutureira, O.; Gerstberger, S.; Fernández-González, M.; Bernardes, G.; Griffin, L.; Hailu, H.; Schofield, C.; Davis, B. Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 1666. DOI: 10.1039/c1sc00185j
- “Posttranslational mutagenesis: A chemical strategy for exploring protein side-chain diversity” Wright, T. H.; Bower, B. J.; Chalker, J. M.; Bernardes, G. J. J.; Wiewiora, R.; Ng, W.-L. L.; Raj, R.; Faulkner, S.; Vallée, M. R.; Phanumartwiwath, A.; Coleman, O. D.; Thézénas, M.-L. L.; Khan, M.; Galan, S. R. R.; Lercher, L.; Schombs, M. W.; Gerstberger, S.; Palm-Espling, M. E.; Baldwin, A. J.; Kessler, B. M.; Claridge, T. D.; Mohammed, S.; Davis, B. G. Science 2016, 354. DOI: 10.1126/science.aag1465