The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford together with UNESCO and the International Union of Crystallography request the pleasure of your company at

The Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the award of Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the International Year of Crystallography

Wednesday 29th October 2014

You are warmly invited to attend a one-day symposium that aims to recognise Dorothy Hodgkin’s legacy and mark the award of her Nobel Prize. Her field, crystallography, underpins all of the sciences today and has an extensive range of applications within the agro-food, aeronautic, computer, electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries and more. 45 scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize over the past century for work that is either directly or indirectly related to crystallography, and yet it remains a field relatively unknown to the general public. This year UNESCO has joined forces with the International Union of Crystallography to promote education and public awareness, and we are delighted to contribute to this effort with the Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium.

PROGRAMME2:45 pm Tea & Coffee, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall

3:00 pm Hidden Glory, Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall A filmed performance of a short, one-woman play about the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin, followed by Q&A with the playwright Georgina Ferry

4:00 pm Registration, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

4:10 pm Welcome, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville College Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

4:30 pm Keynote Talk: A Hundred Years of Visualising Molecules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Professor (Sir) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

5:30 pm Tea & Coffee, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

5:45 pm Panel Discussion, Using crystallography to help solve the world’s great medical problems: from Dorothy Hodgkin into the 21st century, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Biographies of panel participants may be found overleaf

7:15 pm Drinks Reception, Somerville College, The Old College Bar

8:00 pm Supper, Somerville College, Dining Hall

The Symposium welcomes academics, students, Somerville and Oxford alumni, representatives of scientific bodies and institutions, the media and members of the general public. The majority of the programme is free to attend. Tickets for supper including wine will be £35 per person and students are offered a reduced rate of £15 per person. To register, please visit https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/somerville/dorothy-hodgkin-symposium or ring the Somerville Development Office on 01865 280 626. Space is limited, so prompt booking is recommended, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please see the biographies of participants overleaf.

DOROTHY HODGKIN was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She studied at Somerville as an undergraduate and spent her career there, as a Tutorial Fellow and then University Professor. She is best known for advancing the technique of x-ray crystallography in the study of biomolecules, and is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field. Her work was honoured with many distinctions during her career, including the Fellowship of the Royal Society (RS) in 1946, the RS Royal Medal in 1956, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 and the Order of Merit in 1965. She remains the only British woman to have won a Nobel Prize for science.

PROF JUDITH ARMITAGE is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and serves as Director of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her research is concentrated on

bacterial behaviour and movement and using systems biology to model sensory pathways.

GEORGINA FERRY is an accomplished science writer, editor and broadcaster who is a member of the Association of British Science Writers and wrote the first, and highly acclaimed, biography of Dorothy Hodgkin,

which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. A 2014 Bloomsbury Reader edition was released in September.

PROF ELSPETH GARMAN is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and was previously the President of the British Crystallographic Association. Her research focuses on innovating improved methods for macromolecular crystallography to facilitate structure solution.

PROF MATTHEW HIGGINS is a Fellow in Biochemistry at Somerville College, Oxford with his primary research focused on the structural studies of the malaria parasite and causes of the disease. Matt and his team have

contributed to the discovery of the adhesion receptor found in extreme cases of malaria.

PROF SUSAN LEA is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and leader of her research group at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology as well as Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines.

Susan’s pioneering research focuses on microbiology and vaccines and her studies have paved the way for opportunities for new vaccination methods.

DR ANDREW LEACH is Director in Computational and Structural Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development where he is currently responsible for the global Biomolecular Structure group covering

protein X-ray crystallography, biophysics and biological mass spectrometry. He leads GSK’s worldwide effort in fragment-based drug discovery. He also serves on the Board of Governors for the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

PROF MACIEJ NALECZ is a biochemist and is the Director of the Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building for the United Nations’ Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Maciej is also a

former Chair of the Fellowships Committee for the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

DR ALICE PROCHASKA became Principal of Somerville College in 2010, having graduated from the College with both a BA and D.Phil in Modern History. Prior to taking up her role as Principal, Dr Prochaska was the University

Librarian at Yale University. Dr Prochaska is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERPROF (SIR) VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN is one of the most prominent structural biologists in the world, and in 2009 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Venki took up his current post in the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 1999. He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and was knighted in 2012 for services to Molecular Biology. Among his many honours, Venki was also the recipient of India’s second highest civilian honour in 2010, the Padma Vibhushan.

DR WENDY WATSON-WRIGHT is the Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Dr. Watson-Wright gained a PhD in Physiology from Dalhousie University

in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has held eminent positions on several boards including the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science and served as Assistant Deputy Minister in Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

DR MICHELE ZEMA is the Project Manager for the International Year of Crystallography at the International Union of Crystallography and lecturer in crystallography in the Department of Earth and Environmental

Sciences at the University of Pavia, Italy. Michele’s research specialises in mineralogical crystallography and inorganic crystal chemistry.

SPECIAL THANKS to our eminent panel, special guests and also to those who offered invaluable advice

and guidance, including Prof Tim Softley, Prof Mark Sansom, Prof Matthew Wood, Prof Richard Cooper,

Juste Jean-Paul Ngome Abiaga and Lucy Erickson.

PARTICULAR THANKS to Dr Ahmed Fahmi, Programme Specialist at UNESCO, who was instrumental

in driving the programme and educational content of this event.