Christopher Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (970) 491-0573
Fax: (970) 491-0623
Email:
christopher.allen@colostate.edu
Office: 476 Molecular and Radiological Biosciences Building
Degrees
Research Interests
Dr. Allen's diverse research interests include cell cycle checkpoint, DNA repair, DNA recombination and molecular genetics of cancer.
Selected Publications
Roy S, Lane T, Allen C, Aragon AD and Werner-Washburne, M (2006). A Hidden-State Markov Model for Cell Population Deconvolution. J. Comp. Biol. 13(10): 1749-1774.
Allen, C., Büttner, S., Aragon, A.D., Thomas, J.A., Jaetao, J.A., Benn, D., Ruby, S.W., Veenhuis, M., Madeo, F. and Werner-Washburne, M. (2006). Isolation of Unbudded, Quiescent and Apoptotic Cells from Stationary-Phase Yeast Cultures. J. Cell Biol. 174(1): 89-100.
Wentzell PD, Karakach TK, Roy SN, Martinez MJ, Allen CP and Werner-Washburne, M (2006). Multivariate Curve Resolution of Time Course Microarray Data. BMC Bioinformatics. 7: 343.
Aragon A.D, Quiñones, GA, Allen C, Thomas J, Roy S, Davidson GS, Wentzell PD, Millier B, Jaetao JE, Rodriguez AL and Werner-Washburne M (2005). An Automated, Pressure-Driven Sampling Device for Harvesting from Liquid Cultures for Genomic and Bichemical Analyses. J. Microbiol. Methods. 65(2): 357-60. Epub 9/28/2005
Lu H, Guo X, Meng X, Liu J, Allen C, Wray J, Nickoloff JA and Shen Z (2005). The BRCA2-Interacting Protein BCCIP Functions in RAD51 and BRCA2 Focus Formation and Homologous Recombinational Repair. Mol. Cell. Bio. 25: 1949-1957.
Martinez MJ, Roy S, Archuletta AB, Wentzell PD, Santa Anna-Arriola S, Rodriguez AL, Aragon AD, Quinones GA, Allen C and Werner-Washburne M (2004). Genomic Analysis of Stationary-Phase and Exit in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Gene Expression and Identification of Novel Essential Genes. Mol. Bio. Cell 15: 5295-5305. Epub 2004 Sep 29.
Allen C, Miller, CA and Nickoloff, J.A. (2003). The Mutagenic Potential of a Single DNA Double-Strand Break is Not Influenced by Transcription. DNA Repair 2: 1147-1156.
Allen C, Halbrook J and Nickoloff JA (2003). Interactive Competition Between Homologous Recombination and Non-Homologous End Joining. Mol. Cancer Res. 1: 913-920.
Sankoff D, Denault M, Turbis P and Allen C (2002). Chromosomal Distributions of Breakpoints in Cancer, Infertility and Evolution. Theo. Pop. Bio. 61: 497-501.
Brenneman MA, Wagener BM, Miller CA, Allen C and Nickoloff JA (2002). XRCC3 Controls the Fidelity of Homologous Recombination: Roles for XRCC3 in Late Stages of Recombination. Mol. Cell 10: 387-395.
Allen C, Kurimasa A, Brenneman, MA, Chen DJ and Nickoloff JA (2002). DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase Suppresses Double-Strand Break-Induced and Spontaneous Homologous Recombination. Proc. Nat. Aca. Sci. 99(6): 3758-3763.
Kim P, Allen C, Wagener BM, Shen Z and Nickoloff JA (2001). Overexpression of RAD51 and RAD52 Reduces Double-Strand Break Induced and Spontaneous Homologous Recombination. Nuc. Acids Res. 29(21): 4352-4360.
Department Contact Information:
Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
1681 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-7038
Fax: (970) 491-2940
