Dr Chris Cooper
@DrChrisCoops
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Biochemist/wannabe structural biologist and recovering academic. Mildly obsessed with archaea, progressive trance, rowing, tanks, 40K & beer. Own views, obvs
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
Joined August 2015
@ZiaYusufUK It's the Union flag not the Union Jack. Basics.
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Engineering Recombinant Proteins for Structural and Functional Studies 2024 was a huge success! We learnt some great tips and tricks for improving protein expression, purification, stability and more! Thanks to all attendees! #BiochemEvent
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Looking to speaking at the @BiochemSoc course on Engineering Recombinant Proteins course in Nottingham today! Great to reconnect with old colleagues and meet new protein afficionados #BiochemEvent
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I have a 4 year fully funded PhD position in collaboration with Prof Helen Walden (Glasgow) and Dr Panos Kotsantis. If you are interested in cell cycle regulation and ubiquitin signalling, this could be for you. https://t.co/f94KMs7KYy
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Just one week left till our earlybird deadline-places filling up-please send your newbie protein-makers to us-we will have a great time and learn lots about how to design, produce and optimise #recombinant #proteins-please RT to spread the word @BiochemSoc @ccpnmr @ccp4_mx
Hello protein makers of the twittersphere-it's that time of year again when I urge you all to sign up your new lab peop to our fab interactive #proteinengineering course-we have a new venue this year #MotorpointArena Nottingham-it looks fab-join us in Nov!
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Today is Gannet be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
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Are you still making your lovely naked sliced ham @finnebrogue, as we can’t find it any where sadly ? 🙏
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NEWS: Just Stop Oil have sprayed orange paint all over our Students’ Union building, causing thousands of pounds worth of improvements.
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As those who follow me here already know, this past week I drove in a convoy that delivered ambulances to Ukraine. In this thread, I’d like to share some impressions from the very short time I spent in Lviv.
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"Union members slam Huddersfield University's 'draconian' management amid latest raft of redundancies"
examinerlive.co.uk
Union members at the University of Huddersfield have expressed their outrage at another wave of staff cuts that will see almost 200 staff made redundant.
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Slightly annoyed that I missed nature's great light show last night. On the plus side, it's very quiet this morning and there's some nice new plants arrived in the garden.
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Groundbreaking new paper on mammalian DNA-ADPr showing that telomeric DNA repeat sequences are subject to PARP1-mediated ADP-ribosylation that is reversed by the ADPr hydrolase, TARG1. @AnneWondisford @_MarionSchuller
@IvanAhelLab @OSullivan_UPCI
https://t.co/7BjWuSWwMt
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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Telomeres are endogenous cellular targets of DNA ADP-ribosylation (DNA-ADPr). TARG1-regulated DNA-ADPr is coupled to lagging telomere DNA strand...
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RIP Lubert Stryer - his Biochemistry was my first college textbook, a gift from the lab where I had a summer job
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The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the @timeshighered website in the last week or so: 1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting):
timeshighereducation.com
University becomes the latest to restructure due to funding crisis in English higher education
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DNA polymerase I dislike: Pol κ DNA polymerase I begrudgingly respect: Pol β DNA polymerase I think is overrated: Taq DNA polymerase I think is underrated: Pol λ DNA polymerase I like: Phusion/Q5 DNA polymerase I love: Pol θ DNA polymerase I dream of discovering: Pol Ω
Pipette I dislike: P10 Pipette I begrudgingly respect: P2 Pipette I think is overrated: Pipet gun Pipette I think is underrated: Squeeze ball Pipette I like: P200 Pipette I love: 12-channel digital 20-300 Pipette I dream of transferring clear liquids with: Echo 650
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NEWS: Bantshire University axes Benny Hill theme from graduation ceremonies amid students' claims it is 'old-fashioned' and 'offensive to some'.
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Boris Johnson spotted earlier today arriving at the Covid inquiry
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‘You received £30 from your daughter for your birthday, so we’ve cancelled your pension & deported your carer’
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