Graham Gooday
{{Short description|British molecular biologist}}
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| birth_name = Graham William Gooday
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| workplaces = University of Aberdeen
University of Leeds
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| alma_mater = University of Bristol (BSc, PhD)
| thesis_title = Sexual reproduction in the Mucorales
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| thesis_year = 1968
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| doctoral_students = Neil Gow{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Neil Andrew Robert |last=Gow |title=Growth, physiology and ultrastructure of the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans |publisher=University of Aberdeen |year=1982 |url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/29104179?style=html |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.354942 }} |oclc=646445444 |access-date=28 November 2018 |archive-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129054318/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/29104179?style=html |url-status=dead }}
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| awards = Fleming Prize Lecture 1976; FRSE 1989
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Graham William Gooday {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE}} (1942–2001) was a British molecular biologist. He was Professor of Microbiology at Aberdeen University. He was presented with the inaugural Fleming Prize Lecture for the Microbiological Society in 1976. He served as Director of the Institute of Marine Biology.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
Early life and education
Gooday was born on 19 February 1942 in Colchester the son of William Arnold Gooday and Edith May Beeton.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} He studied Biology at the University of Bristol graduating BSc in 1963.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} He took a year out working as a teacher for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Kenema in Sierra Leone.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} He received a PhD in 1968 from the University of Bristol for research on sexual reproduction in the Mucorales.{{cite thesis|first=Graham William|last=Gooday|year=1968|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/21812737?style=html|id={{copac|21812737}}|oclc=1052807311|title=Sexual reproduction in the Mucorales|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Bristol}} He returned as a research fellow at the University of Leeds working with Irene Manton and then at University of Glasgow worked with John Burnett.
Career and research
Gooday served as a lecturer at Aberdeen University from 1972 and was promoted to Professor in 1986.
His research focused on the fungal cell wall, in particular to the biochemistry and physiology of chitin biosynthesis and degradation. He also contributed to pheromone signalling in zygomycetes and yeast-hypha dimorphism in Candida.{{cite journal |last1=Gow |first1=Neil |title=Foreword |journal=Medical Mycology |date=2001 |volume=39 |page=1 |doi=10.1080/mmy.39.1.1.1 }}
= Publications =
Gooday was the author or co-author over 200 publications, including several books. Among the most significant are:
- Differentiation in the Mucaroles (1973){{ISBN missing}}
- Fungal Sex Hormones (1974){{ISBN missing}}
- Chitin in Nature and Technology (1975){{ISBN missing}}
- Functions of Trisporic Acid (1978){{ISBN missing}}
- Microbial Polysaccharides and Polysaccharases (1979){{ISBN missing}}
=Awards and honours=
He was the first recipient of the Fleming Prize Lecture award from the (then) Society of General Microbiology in 1976, made to early career researchers who had produced significant work within 12 years of gaining their doctoral degree.{{cite web |title=FLEMING PRIZE WINNERS |url=https://microbiologysociety.org/grants-prizes/all-prizes-and-competitions-/prize-lectures/fleming-prize-lecture/fleming-prize-winners.html |website=Microbiology Society |access-date=28 April 2020}}
In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John M. Kosterlitz, J H Burnett, J E Fothergill, James Mackay Shewan, C H Gimmingham, F W Robertson, George Dunnet and Patrick Thomas Grant.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=14 July 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
In 1993 he was President of the British Mycology Society.{{cite web |last1=Gow |first1=Neil |title=Obituary - Graham Gooday |url=http://euchis.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/15.pdf |website=European Chitin Society |access-date=28 April 2020}}
Personal life
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:British microbiologists
Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol