Category:Academic Research

I have been doing academic research (or scientific research) full time since May of 2000. I have done this research at five academic institutions to date.

Research Completed

Below is a list of the academic institutions I have done research at to date (in reverse chronological order):

• Dr. Rasmus Nielsen Laboratory, Centre for Bioinformatics, København Universitet, Denmark, December 2005–February 2006.
• Dr. David W. Ussery Laboratory, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark, August 2005–November 2005.
• Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Pittsburgh, USA, October 2004–July 2005.
• Dr. Alex Rich Laboratory, Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Summer 2002/December 2002.
• Dr. P. Shing Ho Laboratory, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Oregon State University, USA, May 2000–September 2004.

Publications

• P. Christoph Champ, Tim T. Binnewies, N. 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.
• 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. (The Online server of ZHunt can be found here)
  • Citations:
    • Ha SC, Lowenhaupt K, Rich A, Kim YG, and Kim KK (2005). Crystal structure of a junction between B-DNA and Z-DNA reveals two extruded bases. Nature 437:1183-1186.
    • Kwon JA, Rich A (2005). Biological function of the vaccinia virus Z-DNA-binding protein E3L: Gene transactivation and antiapoptotic activity in HeLa cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:12759-12764.