Staff Profile
Dr MD Watson
Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41272
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 41201
Contact Dr MD Watson (email at martin.watson@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
My current research interests are currently in collaboration with Prof. CJ Hutchison. These focus on identification of interacting partners to lamin A and lap2 alpha. Two proteins of the nuclear envelope. These proteins have the potential to be markers for cancer of the colon.
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Research Interests
- Cell cycle
- Natural killer cells
- Protein sorting
- Signal transduction
- Stress responses
- Yeast cell biology
Publications
- Horton T.L., R. Minter, R. Stewart, P. Ritchie, M.D. Watson & J.D. Horton. (2000). Xenopus NK cells identified by novel monoclonal antibodies. Eur. J. Immunol 604-613.
- Mayer K., et al (EU Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium) (1999). Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 769-777.
- Horton J.D., Horton T.L., Dzialo R., Gravenor I., Minter R., Ritchie P., Gartland L., Watson M.D. & Cooper M.D. (1998). T cell and NK cell development in thymectomized Xenopus. Immunology Reviews 245-258.
Journal papers: academic
- Watson M.D. (2001). Disruption and Basic Phenotypic Analysis of Six Novel Genes from the Right Arm of Chromosome XII of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 18(5): 473-480.