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Overview

Christopher M. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The focus of their research spans Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with contributions in subfields including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Physiology, and Genetics.

Their work covers a variety of main topics such as:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Christopher M. Thomas has published frequently in notable venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • Plasmid
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Recent publications include:

  • "Cystic Fibrosis Reprograms Airway Epithelial IL-33 Release and Licenses IL-33-Dependent Inflammation," 2023, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Potentiation of curing by a broad-host-range self-transmissible vector for displacing resistance plasmids to tackle AMR," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Molecular characterization of plasmids encoding blaCTX-M from faecal Escherichia coli in travellers returning to the UK from South Asia," 2021, Journal of Hospital Infection
  • "Classifying mobile genetic elements and their interactions from sequence data: The importance of existing biological knowledge," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Representation Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences," 2022, Earth and Space Science

Frequent collaborators of Thomas include:

  • R. Stokes Peebles
  • Daniel P. Cook
  • Allison E. Norlander
  • Dawn C. Newcomb
  • Mark Rusznak

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria

    Christopher M. Thomas;Kaare M. Nielsen

  • Isolation of the tomato Cf-9 gene for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum by transposon tagging

    David A. Jones;Colwyn M. Thomas;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Peter J. Balint-Kurti

  • The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

    Elizabeth M.H. Wellington;Alistair B.A. Boxall;Paul Cross;Edward J. Feil

  • Tackling antibiotic resistance

    Karen Bush;Patrice Courvalin;Gautam Dantas;Julian Davies

  • Alternatives to antibiotics—a pipeline portfolio review

    Lloyd Czaplewski;Richard Bax;Martha Clokie;Mike Dawson

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Complete nucleotide sequence of Birmingham IncP alpha plasmids. Compilation and comparative analysis.

    Werner Pansegrau;Erich Lanka;Peter T. Barth;David H. Figurski

  • Plasmid Cloning Vehicles Derived from Plasmids ColE1, F, R6K, and RK2

    Michael Kahn;Roberto Kolter;Christopher Thomas;David Figurski

  • Genomic and genetic analyses of diversity and plant interactions of Pseudomonas fluorescens

    Mark W. Silby;Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga;Georgios S. Vernikos;Stephen R. Giddens

  • Incompatibility group P plasmids: genetics, evolution, and use in genetic manipulation.

    Christopher M. Thomas;Christopher A. Smith

  • Characterization of the Mupirocin Biosynthesis Gene Cluster from Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 10586

    A.Kassem El-Sayed;Joanne Hothersall;Sian M. Cooper;Elton Stephens

  • The bacterial ParA-ParB partitioning proteins.

    Colin Bignell;Christopher M Thomas

  • The 64 508 bp IncP-1β antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pB10 isolated from a waste-water treatment plant provides evidence for recombination between members of different branches of the IncP-1β group

    Andreas Schlüter;H. Heuer;Rafael Szczepanowski;L.J. Forney

  • Complete sequence of the IncPβ plasmid R751: implications for evolution and organisation of the IncP backbone

    Peter B Thorsted;Donia P Macartney;Parveen Akhtar;Anthony S Haines

  • Active partitioning of bacterial plasmids

    Williams Dr;Thomas Cm

  • A family of ATPases involved in active partitioning of diverse bacterial plasmids

    M. Motallebi-Veshareh;D. A. Rouch;C. M. Thomas

  • Complete sequence of the IncP-9 TOL plasmid pWW0 from Pseudomonas putida.

    Alicia Greated;Lotte Lambertsen;Peter A. Williams;Christopher M. Thomas

  • Paradigms of plasmid organization

    Christopher M. Thomas

  • Regions of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 which are essential for replication and maintenance

    C M Thomas;R Meyer;D R Helinski

  • Nucleotide sequence of the region of the origin of replication of the broad host range plasmid RK2.

    David M. Stalker;Christopher M. Thomas;Donald R. Helinski

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Simpson
Thomas J. Simpson University of Bristol
Russell J. Cox
Russell J. Cox University of Hannover
Christine L. Willis
Christine L. Willis University of Bristol
Matthew P. Crump
Matthew P. Crump University of Bristol
Lawrence E. Larson
Lawrence E. Larson Brown University
Donald R. Helinski
Donald R. Helinski University of California, San Diego
Erich Lanka
Erich Lanka Max Planck Society
Gert Cauwenberghs
Gert Cauwenberghs University of California, San Diego
Eva M. Top
Eva M. Top University of Idaho
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute

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