Graham William Gooday (1942–2001) was a British molecular biologist. He was Professor of Microbiology at

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. 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

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the son of William Arnold Gooday and Edith May Beeton. He studied Biology at the

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graduating BSc in 1963. He took a year out working as a teacher for

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(VSO) in Kenema in

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. He received a

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in 1968 from the University of Bristol for research on

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in the

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. He returned as a research fellow at the

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working with

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and then at University of Glasgow worked with John Burnett.

Career and research

Gooday served as a lecturer at

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

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Publications

Gooday was the author or co-author over 200 publications, including several books. Among the most significant are: *''Differentiation in the Mucaroles'' (1973) *''Fungal Sex Hormones'' (1974) *''

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in Nature and Technology'' (1975) *''Functions of Trisporic Acid'' (1978) *''Microbial Polysaccharides and Polysaccharases'' (1979)

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. In 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. 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. In 1993 he was President of the British Mycology Society.

Personal life

He was married with three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gooday, Graham William 1942 births 2002 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British microbiologists Alumni of the University of Bristol Academics of the University of Aberdeen 20th-century British non-fiction writers