Christopher Cooper

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, since 2015. Previously Junior Research Fellow, College Lecturer In Biochemistry and various postdocs at the University of Oxford (2013-15). Working on DNA replication, genome integrity and transcription factors in human cancers (and also in prokaryotes). Additional interests in phylogenomics and novel protein expression systems.

Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biophysics Biotechnology Cell Biology Computational Biology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Hematology Immunology Infectious Diseases Medical Genetics Metabolic Sciences Microbiology Molecular Biology Mycology Oncology Pathology Pediatrics Pharmacology Programming Languages Synthetic Biology Taxonomy Translational Medicine Virology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Huddersfield

Work details

Director, Head of Protein Sciences

Charm Therapeutics

October 2022

Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences

University of Huddersfield

November 2015 - January 2022

Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences

My main focus is to take a multi-disciplinary approach to study proteins involved in the DNA damage response and genome integrity in human cancers, using structural biochemistry and biophysics, molecular cell biology and bioinformatics methodologies. From my previous work I am also interested in the biology of ETS transcription factors and Cancer-Testis antigens. Understanding the basic functions of these molecules at the molecular level will shed light on their roles in cancer development and metastasis, giving the potential to develop novel biomarkers or chemotherapeutic treatments. I also have interests in developing novel protein expression and purification systems to facilitate structural and biochemical approaches, and also the biotechnological exploitation of novel DNA metabolising proteins from extremophilic bacteria and archaea.

Director of Protein Science

Peak Proteins

January 2022 - October 2022

Protein Science

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

Edited 6

Academic Editor on

July 15, 2021

Associations of individual and joint expressions of ERCC6 and ERCC8 with clinicopathological parameters and prognosis of gastric cancer

Jing Chen, Liang Li, Liping Sun, Yuan Yuan, Jingjing Jing

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11791 PubMed 34316408

September 29, 2017

Trichoplax adhaerens reveals a network of nuclear receptors sensitive to 9-cis-retinoic acid at the base of metazoan evolution

Jan Philipp Novotný, Ahmed Ali Chughtai, Markéta Kostrouchová, Veronika Kostrouchová, David Kostrouch, Filip Kaššák, Radek Kaňa, Bernd Schierwater, Marta Kostrouchová, Zdenek Kostrouch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3789 PubMed 28975052

June 15, 2017

Putative archaeal viruses from the mesopelagic ocean

Dean R. Vik, Simon Roux, Jennifer R. Brum, Ben Bolduc, Joanne B. Emerson, Cory C. Padilla, Frank J. Stewart, Matthew B. Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3428 PubMed 28630803

January 5, 2017

Transcriptomic analysis of diplomonad parasites reveals a trans-spliced intron in a helicase gene in Giardia

Scott William Roy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2861 PubMed 28090405

December 6, 2016

Expression and characterization of thermostable glycogen branching enzyme from Geobacillus mahadia Geo-05

Nur Syazwani Mohtar, Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman, Thean Chor Leow, Abu Bakar Salleh, Mohd Noor Mat Isa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2714 PubMed 27957389

June 28, 2016

A novel baculovirus-derived promoter with high activity in the baculovirus expression system

María Martínez-Solís, Silvia Gómez-Sebastián, José M. Escribano, Agata K. Jakubowska, Salvador Herrero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2183 PubMed 27375973