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Overview

Chris Upton is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada, with research focused primarily on medicine and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans various subfields including infectious diseases, agronomy and crop science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the following main topics:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Their published works include research articles and preprints across several journals and venues. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Computational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research" (2020) in Briefings in Bioinformatics
  • "The first genotype II African swine fever virus isolated in Africa provides insight into the current Eurasian pandemic" (2021) in Scientific Reports
  • "Computational Strategies to Combat COVID-19: Useful Tools to Accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus Research" (2020) in Preprints.org
  • "Complete Genome Sequencing and Comparative Phylogenomics of Nine African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Isolates of the Virulent East African p72 Genotype IX without Viral Sequence Enrichment" (2024) in Viruses
  • "Problems in the assembly and analysis of the kangaroopox virus-NSW isolate" (2024) in Scientific Reports

Chris Upton frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Franziska Hufsky, Kevin Lamkiewicz, Alexandre Almeida, Abdel Aouacheria, and Cecilia N. Arighi. This collaboration network highlights interdisciplinary interactions in virus research and computational biology.

Their work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Briefings in Bioinformatics
  • Preprints.org
  • Viruses

Best Publications

  • The Genome Sequence of the SARS-associated Coronavirus

    Marco A. Marra;Steven J. M. Jones;Caroline R. Astell;Robert A. Holt

  • African swine fever virus replication and genomics

    Linda K. Dixon;David A.G. Chapman;Christopher L. Netherton;Chris Upton

  • Virulence differences between monkeypox virus isolates from West Africa and the Congo basin.

    Nanhai Chen;Guiyun Li;M. Kathryn Liszewski;John P. Atkinson

  • A new family of lipolytic enzymes

    Chris Upton;James T. Buckley

  • Encoding of a homolog of the IFN-gamma receptor by myxoma virus.

    Chris Upton;Karen Mossman;Grant McFadden

  • Review: Capripoxvirus Diseases: Current Status and Opportunities for Control

    E.S.M. Tuppurainen;Estelle Hildegard Venter;J.L. Shisler;G. Gari

  • Poxvirus Orthologous Clusters: toward Defining the Minimum Essential Poxvirus Genome

    Chris Upton;Stephanie Slack;Arwen L. Hunter;Angelika Ehlers

  • Comparison of the genome sequences of non-pathogenic and pathogenic African swine fever virus isolates.

    David A. G. Chapman;Vasily Tcherepanov;Chris Upton;Linda K. Dixon

  • Myxoma virus expresses a secreted protein with homology to the tumor necrosis factor receptor gene family that contributes to viral virulence.

    C. Upton;J.L. Macen;M. Schreiber;G. McFaddeni

  • Genome Annotation Transfer Utility (GATU): rapid annotation of viral genomes using a closely related reference genome.

    Vasily Tcherepanov;Angelika Ehlers;Chris Upton

  • Genomic analysis of highly virulent Georgia 2007/1 isolate of African swine fever virus.

    David A.G. Chapman;Alistair C. Darby;Melissa Da Silva;Chris Upton

  • T2 open reading frame from the Shope fibroma virus encodes a soluble form of the TNF receptor.

    Craig A. Smith;Terri Davis;Janis M. Wignall;Wenie S. Din

  • Poxviruses: past, present and future.

    E.J. Lefkowitz;C. Wang;C. Upton

  • Comparative genomic analysis of the family Iridoviridae : re-annotating and defining the core set of iridovirus genes

    Heather E Eaton;Julie Metcalf;Emily Penny;Vasily Tcherepanov

  • Species Specificity of Ectromelia Virus and Vaccinia Virus Interferon-γ Binding Proteins

    K. Mossman;C. Upton;C. Upton;R.M.L. Buller;G. McFadden

  • Phylogenomic analysis of 11 complete African swine fever virus genome sequences

    Etienne P. de Villiers;Carmina Gallardo;Marisa Arias;Melissa da Silva

  • The genomic sequence of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox.

    Nanhai Chen;Maria I. Danila;Zehua Feng;R.Mark L. Buller

  • SERP1, a serine proteinase inhibitor encoded by myxoma virus, is a secreted glycoprotein that interferes with inflammation

    Joanne L. Macen;Chris Upton;Nick Nation;Grant McFadden

  • A new family of lipolytic plant enzymes with members in rice, arabidopsis and maize

    D. J. Brick;M. J. Brumlik;J. T. Buckley;Jing-Xin Cao

  • JDotter: a Java interface to multiple dotplots generated by dotter

    Ryan Brodie;Rachel L. Roper;Chris Upton

  • A Full-Genome Phylogenetic Analysis of Varicella-Zoster Virus Reveals a Novel Origin of Replication-Based Genotyping Scheme and Evidence of Recombination between Major Circulating Clades

    Geoffrey A. Peters;Shaun D. Tyler;Charles Grose;Alberto Severini;Alberto Severini

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant McFadden
Grant McFadden Arizona State University
Elliot J. Lefkowitz
Elliot J. Lefkowitz University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karen L. Mossman
Karen L. Mossman McMaster University
Inger K. Damon
Inger K. Damon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Linda K. Dixon
Linda K. Dixon The Pirbright Institute
Robert D. Burke
Robert D. Burke University of Victoria
Paula Traktman
Paula Traktman Medical University of South Carolina
João C. Setubal
João C. Setubal Universidade de São Paulo
Ben F. Koop
Ben F. Koop University of Victoria
Shane Raidal
Shane Raidal University of Melbourne

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