Gerard Kleywegt
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Gerard Kleywegt is an x-ray crystallographer
and the team leader of the Protein Data Bank
in Europe at the EBI
; a member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank
. Gerard Kleywegt obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1991. After his PhD he studied x-ray crystallography with Alwyn Jones
at Uppsala University
.
X-ray crystallography
X-ray crystallography is a method of determining the arrangement of atoms within a crystal, in which a beam of X-rays strikes a crystal and causes the beam of light to spread into many specific directions. From the angles and intensities of these diffracted beams, a crystallographer can produce a...
and the team leader of the Protein Data Bank
Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank is a repository for the 3-D structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids....
in Europe at the EBI
European Bioinformatics Institute
The European Bioinformatics Institute is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics, and is part of European Molecular Biology Laboratory...
; a member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank
Worldwide Protein Data Bank
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank, wwPDB, is an organization whose mission, according to its website, is "to maintain a single Protein Data Bank Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community." Given the open access goal, it is somewhat ironic...
. Gerard Kleywegt obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1991. After his PhD he studied x-ray crystallography with Alwyn Jones
Alwyn Jones
Thomas Alwyn Jones is a Welsh biophysicist and a professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He was educated at King's College London, where he received his BSc and PhD degrees. He held various positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from 1973 to 1979, and in Uppsala...
at Uppsala University
Uppsala University
Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...
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