| Judy Armitage | |
| Birth Name: | Judith Patricia Armitage |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Shelley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. |
| Fields: | Molecular and cellular biochemistry |
| Known For: | Study of chemotactic mechanisms to control bacterial motion |
| Workplaces: | University of Oxford University College London Merton College, Oxford |
| Alma Mater: | University College London |
| Thesis Title: | Comparative biochemistry and physiology of the short and long forms of Proteus mirabilis |
| Thesis Url: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.448087 |
| Thesis Year: | 1976 |
| Spouse: | John Jefferys |
| Children: | 2 |
Judith Patricia Armitage (born 1951) is a British molecular and cellular biochemist at the University of Oxford.
Armitage was born on 21 February 1951 in Shelley, Yorkshire, England.[1] She attended Selby Girls' High School, an all-female grammar school, then located in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In her sixth form, the school became the co-educational Selby Grammar School.
Armitage earned a BSc in microbiology at University College London in 1972, and was awarded a PhD in 1976 for research on the bacterium Proteus mirabilis.[2] She remained at UCL in the laboratory of Micheal Evans for her postdoctoral work.[3]
Armitage's research is largely based on the motion of bacteria by flagellar rotation and the chemotactic mechanisms used to control that motion.[4] Armitage was appointed Lecturer in Biochemistiry at Oxford in 1985 and was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Biochemistry in 1996. Armitage is a fellow of Merton College, Oxford[5] and has served as Director of the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Systems Biology since 2006.[6] [7] [8] [9]
Armitage was elected President of the Microbiology Society for 2019.[10]
Armitage was awarded a Lister Institute Research Fellowship in 1982.[11]
In 2010 Armitage was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation[12] and in 2011 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.[6]
Armitage was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. Her nomination reads:[13]
In January 2019 she was elected president of the Microbiology Society for a term of three years.[14]