Jane Dyson

Jane Dyson
Colour photograph of scientist Jane Dyson, a white woman with short light-brown hair.
Jane Dyson at the 2019 Biophysical Society Conference
Born
Helen Jane Dyson

England
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (BSc, PhD)
OccupationBiophysicist
SpousePeter Wright
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsScripps Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of New South Wales
ThesisDynamic and equilibrium spectrophotometry of hemoproteins (1976)
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Helen Jane Dyson is a British-born biophysicist and a professor of integrative structural and computational biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.[2][3][4] She was the 15th editor-in-chief of the Biophysical Journal.[4][5] She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[1]

Early life and education

Jane Dyson was born in England,[6] and was raised near Sydney.[4] Dyson received her Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Sydney in 1973.[7] She received her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the same institution in 1977.[8][7]

Career and research

After her PhD, Dyson did a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Paul Schimmel in 1977.[5][6] From 1979 to 1984, Dyson was a UNESCO Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales.[5] In 1984, she joined the lab of Richard Lerner at the Scripps Research Institute. In 1992, Dyson was appointed an associate professor at the department of molecular biology at the Scripps Research Institute.[7] In 2001, she was promoted to professor.[7]

Dyson applies biophysical techniques including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR), mass spectrometry, circular dichroism, and fluorescence spectroscopy to study the relationships between the amino acid sequences of proteins and their structure and function.[5] Dyson is well known for her work on intrinsically disordered proteins.[9][5][10][11]

Awards and honours

Dyson has received several awards for her research including the Roslyn Flora Goulston Prize for Biochemistry from the University of Sydney in 1971.[7] The Postdoctoral Award from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund in 1977.[7] In 2009, she was awarded a D.Sc. from the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.[7] In 2010, Dyson received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the San Diego Section of the American Chemical Society.[7]

Biophysical Journal

Jane Dyson was the fifteenth editor-in-chief of the Biophysical Journal[5] and the first woman editor of the journal.[5]

Personal life

Dyson is married to scientist Peter Wright, who also studies intrinsically disordered proteins.[6] They have two children.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "2022 NAS Election". nasonline. National Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ Jane Dyson publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ Jane Dyson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b c d "H. Jane Dyson". biophysics.org. The Biophysical Society. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Biophysical Society Newsletter - August 2016". cld.bz. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  6. ^ a b c "Professor Jane Dyson Shares Her Zig-Zag Path". scripps.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "Personnel – Dyson Laboratory". Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  8. ^ Dyson, Helen Jane (1976). Dynamic and equilibrium spectrophotometry of hemoproteins. gov.au (PhD thesis). University of Sydney. OCLC 221180299.
  9. ^ The Scientists' Channel. "Professor Jane Dyson". thescientistschannel.com. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  10. ^ "Bringing Light to the 'Dark' Side of Biology: An Interview with Peter Wright and Jane Dyson". scripps.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  11. ^ "In battle for real estate, a disordered protein wins out: New study points to potential strategy to kill cancer cells". sciencedaily.com. Retrieved 2019-03-06.