The Rosalind Franklin Centre, formerly the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre, has closed down. This page really is academic.
I am now a consultant and photographer. You can reach me via my personal email contact page
Hello. My name is Damian Counsell. Until August 2005 I was a Bioinformatics Specialist in the United Kingdom Medical Research Council's Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research. I am still a director of Bioinformatics.Org, on the Advisory Panel of Future Drug Discovery, but I am not a scientist.
I no longer do experiments or contribute to peer-reviewed papers and I do not call myself an "expert". I do not append or prepend any titles to my name. If anyone else tries this kind of thing on when citing or quoting me, they are doing so without my blessing.
phone/voicemail: +44 (0)7967 026293
my new signed PGP public key will appear here
http://bioinformatics.org/~counsell/
I was interested in some simple, but, I believed, important problems in protein bioinformatics:
Bioinformatics offers challenges and opportunities in pedagogy.
I have been involved with this wonderful suite of free (as in speech and free as in beer) software.
1995--1996: MSc. Physical Science and Engineering in Medicine, Imperial College, London
dissertation: "An Investigation into Scale-space
Texture Measures"
---extension of 2D image analysis texture measures into 3D for
the segmentation of MR brain images in schizophrenics and others
1986--1990: B.A. Physiological Sciences, Balliol College, University of Oxford
dissertation: "The Effect of Inorganic Phosphate on
Rhodobacter Sphaeroides' Motility"
---digital imaging computer tracking of cell motion in different
media
2001--2005: Bioinformatics Specialist, Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomic Research, Cambridge
1997--2001: Bioinformatics Computing Officer, Institute of Cancer Research, London
1996--1997: Biological Content Developer, Electronic Press (BioMedNet), London
1992--1995: Research Assistant: Cell Biology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
1991--1992: Research Assistant: Immunology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
1990--1991: Technician, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
A Fibrillin-1-Fragment Containing the Elastin-Binding-Protein GxxPG Consensus Sequence Upregulates Matrix Metalloproteinase-1: Biochemical and Computational Analysis
Patrick Booms, Andreas Ney, Frank Barthel, Gautier Moroy, Damian Counsell, Christoph Gille, Gao Guo, Reinhard Pregla, Stefan Mundlos, Alain J. P. Alix, Peter N. Robinson
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
(2006), 40, pp234--246
Use of a stringent high-throughput yeast two-hybrid strategy to study human protein-protein interactions: analyses of all intracellular proteins encoded within the human MHC class III region
Jennifer I. Semple, Benjamin Lehner, Stephanie Brown, Damian Counsell, R. Duncan Campbell, Christopher M. Sanderson
Genomics
(2004), 83, pp153--167
Mutations in the Human Muscle LIM Protein Gene in Families With
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Christian Geier, Andreas Perrot, Cemil Özcelik,
Priska Binner, Damian Counsell, Katrin Hoffmann, Bernhard Pilz,
Yvonne Martiniak, Katja Gehmlich, Peter F.M. van der Ven, Dieter O.
Fürst, Arnold Vornwald, Eberhard von Hodenberg, Peter
Nürnberg, Thomas Scheffold, Rainer Dietz, and Karl
Josef Osterziel
Circulation
(2003), 107, pp1390--1395
Crystal structure of
the CCT γ apical domain: implications for substrate binding to
the eukaryotic cytosolic chaperonin
Günter Pappenberger, Julie A. Wilsher, S. Mark Roe, Damian J.
Counsell, Keith R. Willison, Laurence H. Pearl
Journal
of Molecular Biology (2002), 318, pp1367-79
HLA-B27 Subtyping by single-strand conformation
polymorphisms (SSCP) in Caucasoids, Negroids and Inuits from
Greenland
Cornelis F, Pile K, Hill A, Liote F, Rowland-Jones S, Counsell D,
Toubert A, Lathrop M, McMichael A, Bardin T, Bell J
Arthritis and Rheumatism (1992), 35, supplement,
ppS182--S182
The Effect of phosphate on
the motility of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
P. S. Poole, S. Brown, D. Counsell and J. P. Armitage
FEMS
Microbiology Letters (1991), 79, pp1--4
Meeting Review: Workshop---Predicting the Structure of Biological Molecules
Damian Counsell
Comparative
and Functional Genomics (2004), 5, issue: 6/7, pp480--490
A Review of
Bioinformatics education in the UK
Damian Counsell
Briefings in
Bioinformatics (2003), 4, pp7--21
Meeting Review: 2002
O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
Damian Counsell
Comparative
and Functional Genomics (2002), 3, pp264--269
How can we build a
bioinformatics programme that works?
Damian Counsell
The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology
Conference; Tucson, AZ, USA; 28--31 January 2002
Evolution of a protein folding machine, a bioinformatic
view of CCT
Damian Counsell
Structural
Biology Department, Weizmann Institute; Rehovot,
Israel; September 2001
Neurogenetics
Department, Imperial College
School of Medicine; St Mary's Campus, London, UK; November
2000
CCT: A tar-pit, a folding machine and a biology
lesson
Damian Counsell
NEC Research Institute;
Princeton, NJ, USA; September 1999
Prediction of CCT substrate binding sites by bioinformatic
methods
Damian Counsell,
Keith Willison
EMBO
Workshop on Protein Folding and Misfolding inside and outside the
Cell; St
Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK; 25--28
March 1998
The
Bioinformatics FAQ
Bioinformatics.Org;
1999--
The
Bioinformatics Resource; 2001--
Word for
the Wise: A Guide to preparing Scientific documents with Microsoft
Word
MRC-HGMP; 2001--
Institute of Cancer Research;
1998--
Bioinformatics
Perspectives in Oncology: Cancer Sciences Website
Institute of Cancer Research;
2001--
Stationary Traveller
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Website
University of Oxford;
1994
Hacking
the Code of Life
Damian Counsell
Linux User
(December 2004), 42,
pp22--31 [NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WENT TO PRESS BEFORE I HAD REVISED IT---IT CONTAINS ERRORS. I DID NOT APPROVE THE TITLE OR THE SUMMARY.]
Hacking
the Genome
Damian Counsell
Linux User
(June 2001), 11,
pp26--29
Open
Source and the Human Genome Project
Damian Counsell
Becta Technology
R&E Seminar:
Open Source software and its potential impact on
education; Techno Centre, Coventry
University Technology Park, Warwickshire, UK; 25 July 2000
I write and curate the Bioinformatics FAQ at Bioinformatics.Org.
If you are a student or pupil who has to prepare a thesis or scientific project, and have to use Microsoft Word to do it, why not download a copy of "Word for the Wise"?
Protein Structure Bioinformatics, EMBnet, Metapontum Agrobios Consortium, Italy
PhD module Perspectives in Oncology: Bioinformatics, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Bioinformatics for MRes. Biomolecular Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
Sequence Analysis 2 and 3 for MSc. Computational Genetics and Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London, UK
Protein Structure Prediction, Genetics, Cambridge, UK
My personal pages are at counsell.com.
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