Dr. Richard Henderson
Professor of Molecular Biology
Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge CB2 0QH, U.K.
Richard Henderson is a structural biologist with an undergraduate degree in physics from Edinburgh University. He worked on the structure and mechanism of chymotrypsin for his Ph.D. with David Blow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). As a postdoc at Yale, he developed an interest in membrane proteins and worked on voltage-gated sodium channels. Nigel Unwin back at LMB, he used electron microscopy to determine the structure of
bacteriorhodopsin in two-dimensional crystals, first at low resolution and later at atomic resolution.
Most recently he has focused on single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) in which electron images of a thin film containing the macromolecules of interest are obtained without the need for crystals, the plunge-freeze method developed by Jacques Dubochet’s group at EMBL.
Most recently he has focused on single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) in which electron images of a thin film containing the macromolecules of interest are obtained without the need for crystals, the plunge-freeze method developed by Jacques Dubochet’s group at EMBL.
Prof Richard Henderson Molecular Biology