Jeremy Derrick MA, PhD

Prof Jeremy Derrick MA, Ph.D. currently a Professor of Molecular Microbiology, working within the Microbiology Research Grouping in the Faculty. Jeremy obtained his first degree, and then Ph.D., from the University of Cambridge, before moving on to work in Prof Bill Shaw's group in Leicester. This gave me a background in the use of structural analysis in the study of protein function, as applied to the enzyme chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Jeremy then obtained a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, to work on the antibody-binding protein, Protein G, from Streptococcus, which is widely used in affinity resins for purifying antibodies. Working with Gordon Roberts and Lu-Yun Lian in the Biological NMR Centre in Leicester, we published the first description of the structure of this important protein.