Olwyn Byron

Olwyn Byron is a British physicist who is Professor of Biophysics at the

Education

Byron was an undergraduate student at Durham University. She moved to the University of Aberdeen as a graduate student, where she earned a master's degree in medical physics.^{[citation needed]} Byron moved to the University of Nottingham, where her doctoral research considered structure-property investigations into B72.3.^[1]

Research and career

In 1992, Byron joined the faculty at the University of Leicester, where she worked in applied bimolecular technology. She joined the University of Glasgow in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Byron studies the solution behaviour of macromolecules and complexes. She is interested in the solution shape of molecules and the strength of the complexes that they form. She serves on the steering group of the Physics of Life network, a team of biologists and physicists who look to develop a comprehensive understanding of biological processes across multiple length scales, from molecules to systems.^[2] Byron was elected Chair of the British Biophysical Society in 2018.^[3]

Awards and honours

• 2020
  Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize Physics of Life UK Network (PoLNET) steering group^[4][5]

• Joao H. Morais-Cabral; Petosa C; Mike Sutcliffe; et al. (1 August 1996). "Crystal structure of a PDZ domain".
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• B Short; C Preisinger; R Körner; R Kopajtich; O Byron; Francis A. Barr (10 December 2001). "A GRASP55-rab2 effector complex linking Golgi structure to membrane traffic".
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• Myszka DG; Abdiche YN; Arisaka F; et al. (1 December 2003). "The ABRF-MIRG'02 study: assembly state, thermodynamic, and kinetic analysis of an enzyme/inhibitor interaction". Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. 14 (4): 247–269.
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• Rocco. M., Brookes, E. and Byron, O (2021) US-SOMO: methods for the construction and hydration of macromolecular hydrodynamic models. Encyclopaedic of Biophysics, G. C. K. Roberts and A. Watts eds., Springer (doi: 10:1007/978-3-642-35943-9_292-1).