Jennifer L. Martin

{{short description|Australian molecular biologist}}

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| name = Jenny Martin

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| nationality = Australian

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| alma_mater = Victorian College of Pharmacy
(B Pharm, M Pharm)
Oxford University (PhD)
London Business School

| doctoral_advisor = Peter Goodford
Louise Johnson

| work_institutions = Victorian College of Pharmacy
University of Oxford
Bond University
Rockefeller University
University of Queensland
Griffith University
University of Wollongong

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Professor Jennifer Louise "Jenny" Martin {{post-nominals|country=AUS||AC|FAA}} is an Australian scientist and academic. She was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Wollongong, in New South Wales from 2019-2022. She is a former director of the [https://www2.griffith.edu.au/institute-drug-discovery Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery] at Griffith University.{{Cite news|url=https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2016/04/22/leading-scientist-to-head-griffiths-eskitis-institute/|title=Leading scientist to head Griffith's Eskitis Institute|access-date=2016-10-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/eskitis-institute/staff/martin-group/prof-jenny-martin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023145018/https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/eskitis-institute/staff/martin-group/prof-jenny-martin|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2016|title=Prof Jenny Martin – Griffith University|website=www.griffith.edu.au|access-date=2016-10-23}} and a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Martin is Professor Emerita at the University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. Her research expertise encompasses structural biology, protein crystallography, protein interactions and their applications in drug design and discovery.

Education

Martin completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in Melbourne from 1979 to 1981, receiving the Gold Medal for the best student in the B Pharm course. After spending a year as a trainee pharmacist, she completed a Masters in Pharmacy, supervised by Professor Peter Andrews, on the application of computational chemistry to opioid analgesics, which led to her first scientific publications.{{cite journal | pmid = 6094812 | volume=27 | issue=12 | title=Functional group contributions to drug-receptor interactions | journal=J Med Chem | pages=1648–57 | last1 = Andrews | first1 = PR | last2 = Craik | first2 = DJ | last3 = Martin | first3 = JL | doi=10.1021/jm00378a021| year=1984 }}{{cite journal | pmid = 2905731 | volume=1 | issue=1 | title=Conformation-activity relationships of opiate analgesics | journal=J Comput Aided Mol Des | pages=53–72 | last1 = Martin | first1 = J | last2 = Andrews | first2 = P | doi=10.1007/bf01680557| year=1987 | bibcode=1987JCAMD...1...53M | s2cid=206801631 }} She left Australia in 1986 to undertake a DPhil at the University of Oxford supported by a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Scholarship and four other scholarships and bursaries. Under the guidance of Professors Peter Goodford and Louise Johnson, her research used protein crystallography to design glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors as potential anti-diabetic compounds.{{cite journal | pmid = 2125493 | volume=29 | issue=48 | title=Comparison of the binding of glucose and glucose 1-phosphate derivatives to T-state glycogen phosphorylase b | journal=Biochemistry | pages=10745–57 | last1 = Martin | first1 = JL | last2 = Johnson | first2 = LN | last3 = Withers | first3 = SG | doi=10.1021/bi00500a005| year=1990 }}{{cite journal | pmid = 1931942 | volume=30 | issue=42 | title=Glucose analogue inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase: the design of potential drugs for diabetes | journal=Biochemistry | pages=10101–16 | last1 = Martin | first1 = JL | last2 = Veluraja | first2 = K | last3 = Ross | first3 = K | last4 = Johnson | first4 = LN | last5 = Fleet | first5 = GW | last6 = Ramsden | first6 = NG | last7 = Bruce | first7 = I | last8 = Orchard | first8 = MG | last9 = Oikonomakos | first9 = NG | last10 = Papageorgiou | first10 = AC | doi=10.1021/bi00106a006| year=1991 }} Martin paid tribute to Louise Johnson's positive influence as a woman in science, in a 2012 memorial.[http://www.iucr.org/home/leading-article/2012/2012-10-01 Obituary for Professor Dame Louise Johnson: a personal perspective from a former student] In 2015, Martin completed the London Business School four-week Senior Executive Programme[https://www.london.edu/education-and-development/executive-education/topic/career-transition/senior-executive-programme#.WAw6qMne6tY Senior Executive Programme] as part of a cohort of 50 industry, government, not-for-profit and academic leaders from around the world. In 2023, Martin completed an online Undergraduate Certificate in Family History from the [https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwiW9uH_j5iEAxVWCIMDHf6GDm4YABACGgJzZg&ase=2&gclid=Cj0KCQiAzoeuBhDqARIsAMdH14GwjXjh23mHhvc85Ylj-BUMfkUAIDjCBBr3G0RiJafu7v66pH5Yn9IaAjHMEALw_wcB&ei=PuPCZd6WF6704-EP1cOiwAM&sig=AOD64_0xATKTqF7y1q3STohfIPcHxjiRDA&q&sqi=2&nis=4&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjerdr_j5iEAxUu-jgGHdWhCDgQ0Qx6BAgLEAE University of Tasmania].

Scientific career

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After completing her DPhil at Oxford, Martin returned to Australia to take up a post-doctoral position at Bond University in 1990. However, the unexpected closure of the School of Science and Technology resulted in her leaving Australia in 1991 for a post-doctoral position with Professor John Kuriyan, a structural biologist, at Rockefeller University in New York to work on the disulfide bond forming family of proteins (DSBs) in Escherichia coli. She solved the structure of the DsbA protein which was published in 1993 in the high impact journal Nature.{{cite journal | pmid = 8413591 | doi=10.1038/365464a0 | volume=365 | issue=6445 | title=Crystal structure of the DsbA protein required for disulphide bond formation in vivo | journal=Nature | pages=464–8 | last1 = Martin | first1 = JL | last2 = Bardwell | first2 = JC | last3 = Kuriyan | first3 = J| year=1993 | bibcode=1993Natur.365..464M | s2cid=3041152 }}

File:DsbA crystal.pdf crystals growing in a drop of protein solution]]

In 1993 Martin received an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship. This enabled her to return to Australia and establish the first protein crystallography lab in Queensland. This now operates as the UQ Remote Operation Crystallisation and X-ray Diffraction (UQ ROCX) Facility, of which Martin was the Foundation Director.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130919023052/http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/UQROCX UQ Remote Operation Crystallisation and X-ray Diffraction (UQ ROCX) Facility] She remained at the University of Queensland until 2015, supported by several other fellowships: an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellowship in 1999, and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 2007. In 2009, Martin was one of just 15 researchers, and only two women, to receive an inaugural ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship.[http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2009/06/uq-awarded-more-5m-australian-laureate-fellowships UQ News: UQ awarded more than $5M in Australian Laureate Fellowships][http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/FL09_Biographies.pdf Biographies of 2009 Australian Laureate Fellows] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005122735/http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/FL09_Biographies.pdf |date=5 October 2014 }} In 2016, Martin was appointed Director of the Eskitis Drug Discovery Institute{{Cite web |url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/eskitis-institute |title=Eskitis Drug Discovery Institute |access-date=23 October 2016 |archive-date=23 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023144949/https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/eskitis-institute |url-status=dead }} at Griffith University, which hosts unique drug discovery resources including Compounds Australia[https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/compounds-australia Compounds Australia] and NatureBank[https://web.archive.org/web/20161023135536/https://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/eskitis-institute/nature-bank/commercial NatureBank]

File:Crystal structure of DsbA.png – yellow spheres show the active site disulfide in the protein]]

Martin has continued working on DSB proteins and with collaborators developed the first inhibitors of these bacterial proteins as a potential means of combatting antibiotic resistance.{{Cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=Luke A.|last2=Sharma|first2=Pooja|last3=Mohanty|first3=Biswaranjan|last4=Ilyichova|first4=Olga V.|last5=Mulcair|first5=Mark D.|last6=Williams|first6=Martin L.|last7=Gleeson|first7=Ellen C.|last8=Totsika|first8=Makrina|last9=Doak|first9=Bradley C.|date=2015-02-09|title=Application of fragment-based screening to the design of inhibitors of Escherichia coli DsbA|journal= Angewandte Chemie International Edition|volume=54|issue=7|pages=2179–2184|doi=10.1002/anie.201410341|issn=1521-3773|pmid=25556635}}{{Cite journal|last1=Duprez|first1=Wilko|last2=Premkumar|first2=Lakshmanane|last3=Halili|first3=Maria A.|last4=Lindahl|first4=Fredrik|last5=Reid|first5=Robert C.|last6=Fairlie|first6=David P.|last7=Martin|first7=Jennifer L.|date=2015-01-22|title=Peptide inhibitors of the Escherichia coli DsbA oxidative machinery essential for bacterial virulence|journal=Journal of Medicinal Chemistry|volume=58|issue=2|pages=577–587|doi=10.1021/jm500955s|issn=1520-4804|pmid=25470204}} She also initiated work on other proteins including phenylethanolamine N-methyl transferase (PNMT), an enzyme that catalyses adrenaline synthesis. Martin published the structure of this enzyme{{cite journal | pmid = 11591352 | volume=9 | issue=10 | title=Getting the adrenaline going: crystal structure of the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme PNMT. | date=Oct 2001 | journal=Structure | pages=977–85 | doi=10.1016/s0969-2126(01)00662-1 | last1 = Martin | first1 = JL | last2 = Begun | first2 = J | last3 = McLeish | first3 = MJ | last4 = Caine | first4 = JM | last5 = Grunewald | first5 = GL| doi-access = free }} and later, as part of her ongoing research into different PNMT substrate-bound complexes, she and her team became the first remote access user of the Australian Synchrotron.[http://www.synchrotron.org.au/images/LightspeedNewsletter/2008/09/ Lightspeed – Australian Synchrotron News: More than remotely interesting] Martin and her team have also contributed significantly to the structural biology of membrane fusion,{{cite journal | pmid = 17517664 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0701124104 | volume=104 | issue=21 | title=Structure of the Munc18c/Syntaxin4 N-peptide complex defines universal features of the N-peptide binding mode of Sec1/Munc18 proteins | pmc=1885578 | journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | pages=8773–8 | last1 = Hu | first1 = SH | last2 = Latham | first2 = CF | last3 = Gee | first3 = CL | last4 = James | first4 = DE | last5 = Martin | first5 = JL| year=2007 | bibcode=2007PNAS..104.8773H | doi-access=free }}{{cite journal | pmid = 21193638 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0914906108 | volume=108 | issue=3 | title=Possible roles for Munc18-1 domain 3a and Syntaxin1 N-peptide and C-terminal anchor in SNARE complex formation | pmc=3024693 | journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | pages=1040–5 | last1 = Hu | first1 = SH | last2 = Christie | first2 = MP | last3 = Saez | first3 = NJ | last4 = Latham | first4 = CF | last5 = Jarrott | first5 = R | last6 = Lua | first6 = LH | last7 = Collins | first7 = BM | last8 = Martin | first8 = JL| year=2011 | bibcode=2011PNAS..108.1040H | doi-access=free }}{{cite journal | pmid = 22670057 | doi=10.1073/pnas.1116975109 | volume=109 | issue=25 | title=Low-resolution solution structures of Munc18:Syntaxin protein complexes indicate an open binding mode driven by the Syntaxin N-peptide | pmc=3382502 | journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | pages=9816–21 | last1 = Christie | first1 = MP | last2 = Whitten | first2 = AE | last3 = King | first3 = GJ | last4 = Hu | first4 = SH | last5 = Jarrott | first5 = RJ | last6 = Chen | first6 = KE | last7 = Duff | first7 = AP | last8 = Callow | first8 = P | last9 = Collins | first9 = BM | last10 = James | first10 = DE | last11 = Martin | first11 = JL| year=2012 | bibcode=2012PNAS..109.9816C | doi-access=free }} a fundamentally important process that underpins systems as diverse as neurotransmission and blood glucose control. She wrote an invited commentary for The Conversation in 2013 on this topic,[https://theconversation.com/bread-beer-and-botox-the-science-behind-the-2013-nobel-prize-for-medicine-18983 Bread, beer and botox: the science behind the 2013 Nobel Prize for medicine, The Conversation, 8 October 2013] and was invited to present a keynote lecture on her membrane fusion research at the 23rd triennial International Union of Crystallography Congress held in Montreal in 2014.[http://myiucr2014.zerista.com/event/member/129190 IUCr 2014 Keynote Lecture – The mystery of membrane fusion: structural biology of Munc18 proteins; 10 August 2014; Montreal, Quebec, Canada] From 2019 to 2022 Martin was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) of the University of Wollongong.{{Cite web|url=https://media.uow.edu.au/releases/UOW253672.html|title=Internationally renowned scientist to lead UOW's research and innovation strategy|date=28 November 2018|website=UOW Media Releases|access-date=5 April 2019}}

Recognition and awards

In addition to the research fellowships awarded during her career, Martin has received many honours in recognition of her professional contributions including:

  • 2005 Roche Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology{{Cite web |url=https://www.asbmb.org.au/awards/martin.html |title=ASBMB website: The 2005 Roche Medal |access-date=14 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082249/https://www.asbmb.org.au/awards/martin.html |archive-date=19 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/top-award-to-imb-researcher |title=IMB News: Top Award to IMB Researcher |access-date=15 August 2014 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819102802/http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/top-award-to-imb-researcher |url-status=dead }}
  • 2005 Queensland Government Smart Women Smart State Award (Research Scientist Category){{Cite web |last=Queensland |first=The University of |last2=Lucia |first2=Australia Brisbane St |last3=Gatton |first3=QLD 4072 +61 7 3365 1111 Other Campuses: UQ |last4=Maps |first4=UQ Herston |last5=Queensland |first5=Directions © 2024 The University of |title=Hat trick of awards for IMB smart women |url=https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2007/08/hat-trick-of-awards-imb-smart-women |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=UQ News |language=en}}
  • 2006 Women in Biotech Outstanding Biotechnology Researcher Award
  • 2007 Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, Oxford[https://sites.google.com/site/oxfordawise/jenny-martin 9th Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture: Professor Jenny Martin, The name's Bond.....Disulphide Bond, University Museum, Oxford, 6 March 2007]
  • 2007 Honorary Life Membership, Questacon (National Science and Technology Centre), Canberra{{Cite web |last=Centre for Transformative Innovation |first=Swinburne University of Technology |title=Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre - Corporate Body - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation |url=https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001664b.htm |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=www.eoas.info |language=en-gb}}
  • 2010 Lady Masson Lecture, The University of Melbourne[http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/s/1182/index.aspx?sid=1182&pgid=714&gid=1&cid=1374&ecid=1374&post_id=0 Lady Masson Lecture 2010 at the University of Melbourne]
  • 2011 Women in Technology Outstanding Biotechnology Achievement{{Cite web |url=http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/researchers-shine-at-women-in-technology-awards |title=IMB News: Researchers shine at Women in Technology Awards |access-date=17 August 2014 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819103020/http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/researchers-shine-at-women-in-technology-awards |url-status=dead }}
  • 2017, Wunderly Oration and Medal, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand{{Cite web |last=Writers |first=Griffith University |date=2017-03-28 |title=GRIDD Director honoured with Wunderly Oration Medal |url=https://news.griffith.edu.au/2017/03/28/gridd-director-honoured-with-wunderly-oration-medal/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Griffith News |language=en-AU}}
  • 2017, Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Martin |url=https://www.science.org.au/profile/jennifer-martin |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=www.science.org.au |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=wwPDB.org |title=wwPDB: Advisory Committee |url=https://www.wwpdb.org/about/advisory |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=www.wwpdb.org |language=en}}
  • 2017, Elected Chartered Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
  • 2017, Inducted Bragg Member, Royal Institution of Australia{{Cite web |date=2020-07-10 |title=Bragg Fellows - RiAus |url=https://riaus.org.au/about-us/bragg-fellows/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=riaus.org.au |language=en-AU}}
  • 2018, Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia for "eminent service to science, and to scientific research, particularly in the field of biochemistry and protein crystallography applied to drug-resistant bacteria, as a role model, and as an advocate for gender equality in science".{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-day-honours-2018-the-full-list-20180125-h0o20j.html|title=Australia Day Honours 2018: The full list|date=2018-01-26|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2018-01-25|language=en-US}}
  • 2020, Leach Lecture and Medal, Lorne Protein Conference{{Cite web |title=2019: Professor Jennifer L. Martin announced as 2020 Leach Lecturer - University of Wollongong – UOW |url=https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2019/professor-jennifer-l-martin-announced-as-2020-leach-lecturer.php |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=www.uow.edu.au |language=en}}
  • 2023, Ralph Slatyer Medal and Lecture, Australian National University{{Cite web |title=Professor Jennifer Martin receives 2023 Ralph Slatyer medal {{!}} ANU Research School of Biology |url=https://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/professor-jennifer-martin-receives-2023-ralph-slatyer-medal |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=biology.anu.edu.au |language=en}}
  • 2024, [https://scanz.iucr.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/159469/Bragg-Recipients-v4.pdf Lawrence Bragg Medal], Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand

Martin has held leadership roles on national and international committees. She is a former chair of the National Committee for Crystallography of the Australian Academy of Science (2008–2011), a past President of the Society for Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (2003–2005), former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the [http://www.synchrotron.org.au/ Australian Synchrotron] (2002–2009, 2015-18), former President of the [http://asca.iucr.org/ Asian Crystallography Association] (2016–2019) and former member of the Executive Committee of the [http://www.iucr.org/ International Union of Crystallography] (2017–2023). She was Chair of the worldwide Protein Data Bank Advisory Committee{{Cite web |last=wwPDB.org |title=wwPDB: Advisory Committee |url=https://www.wwpdb.org/about/advisory |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=www.wwpdb.org |language=en}} (2022-2024) and is currently a Trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre{{Cite web |title=Management & Governance {{!}} CCDC |url=https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/about-us/management-governance/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk |language=en}} (2023-).

Advocacy and science communication

Martin is a strong advocate for equal opportunity and addressing gender imbalance in academia.{{Cite news|url=http://www.sciencegenderequity.org.au/sage-pilot/silent-brain-drain-jenny-martin/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730085851/http://www.sciencegenderequity.org.au/sage-pilot/silent-brain-drain-jenny-martin/|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 July 2016|title=Ending the Silent Brain Drain: Professor Jenny Martin on Supporting Women in Science|date=2016-02-03|newspaper=Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE)|access-date=2016-10-23}} She published a letter in the prestigious journal Nature calling for scientific conference organisers to be more transparent with respect to their gender-balance policies and historical data[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7432/full/493305c.html Martin JL, Sexism: Conferences should seek a balance, Nature (2014) 493:305] and a paper describing how to achieve conference speaker gender balance.{{Cite journal |last=Martin |first=Jennifer L. |date=2014-11-20 |title=Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance |journal=PLOS Computational Biology |language=en |volume=10 |issue=11 |pages=e1003903 |doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003903 |doi-access=free |issn=1553-7358 |pmc=4238945 |pmid=25411977|bibcode=2014PLSCB..10E3903M }} Martin also writes a blog [http://cubistcrystal.wordpress.com/ cubistcrystal: Jenny Martin's blog] which focuses on issues relating to women in academia. She was a Foundation member of the steering committee for Science in Australia Gender Equity ([https://sciencegenderequity.org.au/ SAGE])[http://www.sciencegenderequity.org.au/ Australian Academy of Science: SAGE Forum] which established the UK Athena SWAN charter in Australia to address the under-representation of women in science, particularly at senior positions in universities. As an opinion leader she has been invited to speak on gender equity worldwide, and across sectors. In 2017, she presented a keynote lecture on addressing conference gender equity at the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists[http://www.anzca.edu.au/ Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists] Annual Scientific Meeting, and presented the Wunderly oration at the Thoracic Society Australia and New Zealand[https://www.thoracic.org.au/ Thoracic Society Australia and New Zealand] and Society of Respiratory Science[http://www.anzsrs.org.au/ Society of Respiratory Science] Annual Scientific Meeting. In 2018 she gave the invited Inaugural Ruth Gall Memorial Lecture for the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney on International Women's Day and the Chuwen Keynote Address at the 5th national meeting of the Australian Academy of Science EMCR Forum Science Pathways "Diversify your Thinking". Martin was the first chair of the [https://www.iucr.org/iucr/governance/advisory-committees/gedc International Union of Crystallography Gender Equity and Diversity Committee] (2018-2023).

Martin is a passionate science communicator. She has participated in events such as BrisScience,{{Cite web |url=https://brisscience.wordpress.com/tag/jenny-martin/ |title=BrisScience: UQ Research Week 2013 "How are new medicines discovered?" |access-date=15 August 2014 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082301/https://brisscience.wordpress.com/tag/jenny-martin/ |url-status=dead }} which runs public lectures on science and technology; SCOM BOMB,{{Cite web |url=http://nofunnybusiness.net/2014/05/scom-bomb-jenny-martin-crystallographer/ |title=SCOM BOMB – Jenny Martin, Crystallographer |access-date=15 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817045828/http://nofunnybusiness.net/2014/05/scom-bomb-jenny-martin-crystallographer/ |archive-date=17 August 2014 |url-status=dead }} a Google hangout operated by the Australian Science Communicators, Science Rewired and the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science as part of the No Funny Business science communication website;[http://nofunnybusiness.net/ No Funny Business science communication website] and the 2014 UNESCO International Year of Crystallography, including a radio interview[http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2013/12/2014-is-international-year-of-crystallography.html 612 ABC Brisbane: 2014 is International Year of Crystallography] and public lecture.{{Cite web |url=http://science.unimelb.edu.au/crystallography |title=University of Melbourne, Faculty of Science: International Year of Crystallography 2014 |access-date=15 August 2014 |archive-date=11 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811081048/http://science.unimelb.edu.au/crystallography |url-status=dead }} In 2023, she gave the IUCr Plenary Public Lecture entitled "How I fell in love with crystallography and why you should too".{{Cite web |title=How I fell in love with crystallography {{!}} ANSTO |url=https://www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/how-i-fell-love-crystallography |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.ansto.gov.au}} She also writes articles for The Conversation,[https://theconversation.com/profiles/jenny-martin-1572/articles Jenny Martin – The Conversation] an independent, online source of news and views from the academic and research community. In 2019, she released a children's book “[https://www.thatsradscience.com/book-4-crystal-science-2/ My aunt is a protein crystal scientist. That’s Rad!]”.

Personal life

Martin grew up in a large family of nine children in Victoria. She currently resides in Brisbane with her husband Michael, and their cat Stan.

References

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