Gideon Davies

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 and 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.

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 Research Council (BBSRC), European Research Council (ERC) and Alzheimer's Research UK.

Davies was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2010. His nomination reads:

Davies was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2014, his nomination reads

Davies was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2010, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from the University of Bristol in 2007.

Davies married Valérie Marie-Andrée Ducros in 1999 and has two daughters.