Clyde A Smith,
Stanford University, USA
Biography
Clyde Smith has over 30 years’ experience in the determination of small molecule and protein structures using X-ray crystallography. Dr Smith gained his PhD in Protein Crystallography at Massey University (New Zealand) in 1993, where he studied the structure and metal binding properties of lactoferrin from human milk. He then undertook a two-year NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, working on the structure of the major skeletal muscle protein, myosin. He returned to New Zealand as a FRST postdoctoral fellow studying the structures of thermostable enzymes. In 1997 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Biochemistry in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. In late 2003, he moved to the US to take up a Staff Scientist position in the Chemistry Department at Stanford University, working at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). He is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at SSRL. His scientific research in the field of structural biology includes work in antibiotic resistance, folate metabolism and vitamin B12 chemistry.