Chris Thomas – Network — University of Birmingham

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Chris Thomas is an internationally recognised authority on bacterial plasmid and mobile DNA and within the University has championed biotechnology. His current research focuses on:

Bacterial plasmids: Bacterial plasmids are important because of their role in spreading genes horizontally within bacterial populations and as tools for genetic manipulation. Professor Thomas's group has carried out detailed investigations of the genes which control DNA replication, plasmid segregation and conjugative transfer between dividing cells, including how they are regulated, with a view to help displace them in clinical and veterinary contexts but improve their properties as vectors.

Polyketide antibiotic biosynthesis: New antibiotics are required for use in medicine. The group is studying biosynthesis of mupirocin inPseudomonas fluorescenswith a view to generating new forms of this polyketide antibiotic that can be used against the superbug MRSA. It is also studying the biosynthesis of the related antibiotic thiomarinol in marine bacteria in order to understand how the additional elements of this antibiotic are made and how they increase the potency of the antibiotic compared to mupirocin.

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The University of Birmingham

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Life and Environmental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

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The University of Birmingham

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Microbiology and Infection

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Immunology and Immunotherapy

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The University of Birmingham

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The Centre for Computational Biology

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Metabolism and Systems Research

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Applied Health Research

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Chemical Engineering

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Cancer and Genomic Sciences

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Education

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The University of Birmingham

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University of Bristol

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University of Birmingham

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University of Sydney

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University of Surrey

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Harvard Medical School

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Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences

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Tufts University

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University of Pittsburgh

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Curtin University

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John Innes Centre

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UMR 8236 CNRS

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Hofstra North Shore-Long Island Jewish School of Medicine

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IN2P3

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Fudan University

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University of Shizuoka

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Royal Gwent Hospital

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University of Turku

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King Abdulaziz University

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BioInformatics Research Center

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Universidad del Valle

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM)

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Rockefeller University

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Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic

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Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

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Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 1128

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Leibniz Universität Hannover

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Kobe University

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Leiden University

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Merck Research Laboratories

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University of New South Wales

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Monash University

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William Paterson University

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University of Reading

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South China Sea Institute of Oceanology

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Michigan State University

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Massey University

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Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI)

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University of Illinois

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

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University of Connecticut

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National University of Ireland

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State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism

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Veterinary Laboratories Agency Weybridge

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Central Michigan University

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Jacobs University

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Commissariat À L'Energie Atomique (CEA)

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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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Merck Stiftungsprofessur Für Molekulare Biotechnologie

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Infectious Disease Research

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University of Idaho

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Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS)

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McMaster University

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Fachbereich Phytomedizin

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University of California, Berkeley

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King’s College London

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Unité Mixte de Recherche 1309 Contrôle des Maladies Animales Exotiques et Emergentes, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)

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University of North Texas Health Science Center

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Department of Metabolic Biology

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University of Aberdeen

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology

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Harvard University

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Technical University of Denmark

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University College Dublin

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Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen,

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Technische Universität Berlin

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Ghent University

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Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)

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Cardiff University

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University of Groningen

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain (LIED)

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Slovak Academy of Sciences

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Instituto Universitario de Oncología Del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A), Universidad de Oviedo

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Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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Technische Universitat Darmstadt

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Myongji University

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

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Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

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Fachbereich Biowissenschaften

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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UNT System College of Pharmacy

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National University of Singapore

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Hokkaido University

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University of Manchester

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University of California, San Diego

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Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Maynooth University

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Dynamique des Génomes et Adaptation Microbienne

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KU Leuven

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Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica

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Chalmers University of Technology

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Saarland University

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RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Roosevelt University Chicago

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Biotechnology Research Center

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University of California, San Francisco

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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City University of New York

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Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

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Departamento de Bioquímica y Genómica Microbianas, IBCE

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Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology

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Albrecht Thaer Institut

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Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research

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Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados

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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Diamond Light Source

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Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

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Unidad de Genómica Avanzada (Langebio)

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Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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The University of Texas at Austin

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Universidade Do Porto

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Naicons Srl

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Université Paris Denis Diderot

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Sanger Inst

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Unité BIOlogie et GEstion des Risques en Agriculture (BIOGER)

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Stanford University

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Brigham & Womens Hosp

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Universidade de Lisboa

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University of Leeds

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University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

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State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry

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University of Cork

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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University of Melbourne

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Goethe University

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University of Western Australia

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Institut Laue-Langevin

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Evolution of Metabolic Diversity Laboratory

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ETH Zürich

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Universidad de Oviedo

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University of Helsinki

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Oregon State University

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Princeton University

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University of Tampere

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Novartis

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Université de Lorraine and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

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