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12 Facts About Judy Armitage

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Judith Patricia Armitage was born on 1951 and is a British molecular and cellular biochemist at the University of Oxford.

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Judy Armitage was born on 21 February 1951 in Shelley, Yorkshire, England.

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Judy Armitage earned a BSc in microbiology at University College London in 1972, and was awarded a PhD in 1976 for research on the bacterium Proteus mirabilis.

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Judy Armitage remained at UCL in the laboratory of Micheal Evans for her postdoctoral work.

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Judy Armitage's research is largely based on the motion of bacteria by flagellar rotation and the chemotactic mechanisms used to control that motion.

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Judy Armitage was appointed Lecturer in Biochemistiry at Oxford in 1985 and was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Biochemistry in 1996.

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Judy Armitage is a fellow of Merton College, Oxford and has served as Director of the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Systems Biology since 2006.

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Judy Armitage was elected President of the Microbiology Society for 2019.

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Judy Armitage was awarded a Lister Institute Research Fellowship in 1982.

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In 2010 Judy Armitage was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and in 2011 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

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Judy Armitage was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

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Judith Judy Armitage is distinguished for pioneering contributions to the understanding of spatio-temporal complexity and cellular organisation in bacteria.