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

Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences

University of Huddersfield

November 2015

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.

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PeerJ Contributions

Edited 5

Academic Editor on

September 29, 2017

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

7 citations

569 downloads

2,898 views

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

31 citations

882 downloads

3,704 views

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

3 citations

262 downloads