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This article will describe my professional work experience / history. See my Curriculum Vitae for an overview.

Note: This article is currently under construction and is far from complete.

2006-present

I presently work in the Dr. Ethan A. Merritt Laboratory in the Biochemistry department, University of Washington.

Published:

• Frank Zucker, P. Christoph Champ, Ethan A. Merritt (2010). Validation of crystallographic models containing TLS or other descriptions of anisotropy. Acta Crystallographica Section D (in review).

2005

I worked as a research assistant in the Dr. David W. Ussery Laboratory at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark. My research was in bioinformatics; specifically, Comparative Genomics.

Published:

• P. Christoph Champ, Tim T. Binnewies, Natasja Nielsen, Guy Zinman, Kristoffer Kiil, Hang Wu, Jon Bohlin, and David W. Ussery (2006). Genome update: purine strand bias in 280 bacterial chromosomes. Microbiology, 152(3):579-583 DOI:10.1099/mic.0.28637-0 . [HubMed]

2004-2005

I worked as a research assistant and system administrator in the Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Pittsburgh.

Published:

• P. Christoph Champ and Carlos J. Camacho (2007). FastContact: a free energy scoring tool for protein-protein complex structures. Nucleic Acids Research (Web Issue). DOI:10.1093/nar/gkm326 . [HubMed]
• Carlos J. Camacho, Ma H, and P. Christoph Champ (2006). Scoring a diverse set of high-quality docked conformations: A metascore based on electrostatic and desolvation interactions. Proteins, 63(4):868-77 DOI:10.1002/prot.20932 . [HubMed]

2002

I worked as a research assistant in the Dr. Alex Rich Laboratory in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research focused on the role of Z-DNA in gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (common yeast). The research included using Affymetrix GeneChip's and programming (mainly in C and Perl) novel code for analysis of huge amounts of data (most of it stored in MySQL databases).

2000-2004

I worked as a research assistant in the Dr. P. Shing Ho Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Oregon State University. My research focused on the role of Z-DNA in gene expression in the human genome (mainly chromosome 22).

Published:

• P. Christoph Champ, Sandor Maurice, Jeffery M. Vargason, Tracy Camp, and P. Shing Ho (2004). Distributions of Z-DNA and nuclear factor I in human chromosome 22: a model for coupled transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research, 32(22):6501-6510 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkh988 . [HubMed]

1998-1999

I worked as a lab assistant for a microbiology laboratory. Prepared all kinds of media (e.g., agar solutions and agar plates) to feed our stock of microbes, as well as rotating the colonies.

1996-1997

English language for Berlitz in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I taught at all levels (beginner, mid-level, and advanced). Most of my students were government officials, businessmen / businesswomen, and other professionals.

1995-1996

I worked at a Audio & Visual Production Centre in Japan. My main role was to oversee a group of audio technicians, as well as performing automated dialogue replacement (ADR; aka "dubbing") for music videos, documentaries, etc.

1994-1995

I worked at a Pan-European Translation and Publishing House in both Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary. My main role there was as deputy manager of the audio and visual department. We would receive recordings of an original English audio or visual media translated into just about every language in Europe and then make thousands of copies of them (cassette tapes, CDs, DAT, VHS-PAl, VHS-NTSC, etc.) and then ship them all over Europe.