User:Andrew Perry
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Contact Info
- Andrew Perry
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
- University of Melbourne
- 30 Flemington Rd
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I work in the Lithgow Lab at the University of Melbourne. Honestly, I've forgotten where I learned about OpenWetWare, it's just popped up again and again, and become too hard to ignore :). I intend to start lab group page in the future (probably next year), and contribute to the (proposed) Biogang wiki space and DIYbio documentation.
Online
- I keep a personal blog about science, bioinformatics and the web.
- A lot of interesting links and discussion appears in The Life Scientists Room on FriendFeed. I lurk around and try to contribute to projects of the Biogang.
Education
- 2006, PhD, University of Melbourne
- 2001, BSc(Hon), University of Melbourne
Research interests
General techniques
- Structural bioinformatics
- Structural biology, NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography
- Outer membrane proteins
Specific areas
- Outer mitochondrial and bacterial protein structure
- Mitochondrial protein import
- Beta-barrel membrane protein transport, folding, insertion and assembly
- Web application development, and new technologies for scientific collaboration and information dissemination
Areas I haven't published in, but would like to do some work in
- Synthetic biology (esp. compartmentalization of in vitro systems and directed evolution)
- DNA computing and "in vivo" computation
- Protein engineering
- probably lots of other stuff .... gotta stay focused :) !!
Publications
- Gentle IE, Perry AJ, Alcock FH, Likić VA, Dolezal P, Ng ET, Purcell AW, McConnville M, Naderer T, Chanez AL, Charrière F, Aschinger C, Schneider A, Tokatlidis K, and Lithgow T. Conserved motifs reveal details of ancestry and structure in the small TIM chaperones of the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 May;24(5):1149-60. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msm031 |
- Likić VA, Perry A, Hulett J, Derby M, Traven A, Waller RF, Keeling PJ, Koehler CM, Curran SP, Gooley PR, and Lithgow T. Patterns that define the four domains conserved in known and novel isoforms of the protein import receptor Tom20. J Mol Biol. 2005 Mar 18;347(1):81-93. DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.12.057 |
- Perry AJ, Hulett JM, Likić VA, Lithgow T, and Gooley PR. Convergent evolution of receptors for protein import into mitochondria. Curr Biol. 2006 Feb 7;16(3):221-9. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.034 |
- Perry AJ, Hulett JM, Lithgow T, and Gooley PR. 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments of the cytosolic domain of Tom20 from Arabidopsis thaliana. J Biomol NMR. 2005 Nov;33(3):198. DOI:10.1007/s10858-005-2325-8 |
Some links to useful OWW (and other) resources
- Open writing projects/Beginning Python for Bioinformatics ... a great resource in the making.
- University of Chicago:NMR Software Guide ... it's a bit like "NMRPipe: the missing manual".
- NMRWiki ... a growing NMR knowledge base.
Generic OWW links