User:Andrew Perry

Contact Info



 * Andrew Perry
 * Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
 * Monash University, Clayton Campus,
 * PO Box 13d, VIC, 3800, Australia.


 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I'm currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Whisstock Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University. Previously I worked in the Lithgow Lab when they were at the University of Melbourne; this group has since moved and is now one of the labs in the Host-Pathogen Molecular Biology Unit 'supergroup' at Monash University. I did my PhD under the supervision of Paul Gooley, doing NMR spectroscopy of proteins for structure determination.

I'm an advisor and coordinator for the 2010 Monash iGEM team.

Online

 * I keep a (sometimes neglected) personal blog about science, bioinformatics and the web.
 * I tweet under @pansapiens. It's mostly unprofessional.
 * A lot of interesting links and discussion appears in The Life Scientists Room on FriendFeed, and while FriendFeed may be a little neglected these days, there is still some activity here.

Education

 * 2006, PhD, University of Melbourne
 * 2001, BSc(Hon), University of Melbourne

General techniques

 * 1) Structural bioinformatics
 * 2) Structural biology, NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography
 * 3) Outer membrane protein purification, refolding, etc

Specific areas

 * 1) Outer mitochondrial and bacterial protein structure
 * 2) Mitochondrial protein import
 * 3) Beta-barrel membrane protein transport, folding, insertion and assembly
 * 4) 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

 * 1) Synthetic biology (esp. compartmentalization of in vitro systems and directed evolution)
 * 2) DNA computing and "in vivo" computation
 * 3) Protein engineering
 * 4) probably lots of other stuff .... gotta stay focused :) !!

Publications
See my ResearcherID profile


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More publications
Procter, J.B., Perry, A.J., Torda, A.E.a Comparing Objects of Different Sizes: Treating Proteins as Strings Australian Journal of Chemistry 2001 54(6) 367-373 doi:10.1071/CH01053

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 and NMR Q&A Forum ... a growing NMR knowledge base and a "Stack Overflow"-style Q&A community.
 * North East Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) NMR wiki ... for sharing experimental protocols as well as training in structural biology and biomolecular NMR.
 * MajorGroove .. a "Stack Overflow"-style Q&A community for biologists, with a bias toward researchers using biomolecular crystallography.
 * BioStar .. "Stack Overflow"-style community for bioinformatics, computational genomics and systems biology.
 * E._coli_genotypes .. a really useful list of genotypes for E. coli strains in common use in many labs.
 * User:Andrew Perry/Web2.0 For Scientists -- "Emerging Tools for Scientific Collaboration Online". Some rough notes for a talk I may give one day.
 * User:Andrew_Perry/Other_Bioscience_Wikis -- a list of other bioscience wikis and some commentary.
 * User:Andrew_Perry/Lesser_Known_Methods_in_Bacterial_Protein_Expression -- every man and his dog expresses their proteins in bacteria using poly-histidine, GST, Nus or MBP tags. Here are a few lesser known techniques that have been published.
 * User:Andrew_Perry/Protocols -- I'm starting to compile my own versions of some molecular biology protocols on OpenWetWare.

Generic OWW links

 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages

