The Eleanor and Guy Dodson Building
Offering researchers access to the latest facilities for determining protein structures, the creation of the Eleanor and Guy Dodson building on campus west also provides the world-renowned York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL) within the Department of Chemistry with a brand new home.
YSBL was at the forefront of research dedicated to analysing protein structures of Covid-19 and the new facility also houses a cryo electron microscope as well as facilities for protein crystallography and high-field NMR spectroscopy,
Cryo electron microscopy is the latest in a series of techniques able to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins. By co-locating this new experiment with X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy, an integrated, collaborative facility will be established for the study of protein structure and function.
The building is named to pay tribute to the pivotal role played by Eleanor and the late Guy Dodson in YSBL. It also recognises the pioneering work, directed by Eleanor in the development of computational methods for solving the three-dimensional structure of proteins from X-ray data.
The building was funded by donations from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and York graduate Tony Wild.