Graham Gooday Explained

Graham Gooday
Birth Name:Graham William Gooday
Birth Date:19 February 1942
Workplaces:University of Aberdeen
University of Leeds
Alma Mater:University of Bristol (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Title:Sexual reproduction in the Mucorales
Thesis Url:https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/21812737?style=html
Thesis Year:1968
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Doctoral Students:Neil Gow[1]
Awards:Fleming Prize Lecture 1976; FRSE 1989
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Children:3

Graham William Gooday (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.

Early life and education

Gooday was born on 19 February 1942 in Colchester the son of William Arnold Gooday and Edith May Beeton. He studied Biology at the University of Bristol graduating BSc in 1963. He took a year out working as a teacher for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Kenema in Sierra Leone. He received a PhD in 1968 from the University of Bristol for research on sexual reproduction in the Mucorales.[2] 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.[3]

Publications

Gooday was the author or co-author over 200 publications, including several books. Among the most significant are:

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.[4]

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.[5]

In 1993 he was President of the British Mycology Society.[6]

Personal life

He was married with three children.

Notes and References

  1. PhD . Neil Andrew Robert . Gow . Growth, physiology and ultrastructure of the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans . University of Aberdeen . 1982 . . 646445444 . 28 November 2018 . 29 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181129054318/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/29104179?style=html . dead .
  2. Graham William. Gooday. 1968. Sexual reproduction in the Mucorales. . 1052807311. PhD. University of Bristol.
  3. Gow . Neil . Foreword . Medical Mycology . 2001 . 39 . 1 . 10.1080/mmy.39.1.1.1 .
  4. Web site: FLEMING PRIZE WINNERS . Microbiology Society . 28 April 2020.
  5. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 14 July 2016. 24 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf. dead.
  6. Web site: Gow . Neil . Obituary - Graham Gooday . European Chitin Society . 28 April 2020.