Christopher completed his BSc & PhD at the University of Manchester.
Publications:
Rewiring Riboswitches to Create New Genetic Circuits in Bacteria. C.J. Robinson, D. Medina-Stacey, M.-C. Wu, H.A. Vincent, J. Micklefield Methods in Enzymology 2016 in press. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2016.02.022)
Dual transcriptional-translational cascade permits cellular level tuneable expression control. R. Morra, J. Shankar, C.J. Robinson, L. Butler, S. Halliwell, S. Hay, J. Micklefield, N. Dixon. Nucleic Acid Res. 2016, 44, e21 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv912)
Rational Re-engineering of the Transcriptional Silencing PreQ1 Riboswitch. M.-C. Wu, P.T. Lowe, C.J. Robinson, H.A. Vincent, N. Dixon, J. Leigh, J. Micklefield 2015 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9015-9021. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b03405)
Modular Riboswitch Toolsets for Synthetic Genetic Control in Diverse Bacterial Species. C.J. Robinson, H.A. Vincent, M.-C. Wu, P.T.Lowe, M.S. Duncan, D. Leys, and J. Micklefield J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10615-10624. DOI: 10.1021/ja502873j
Generation of Orthogonally Selective Bacterial Riboswitches by Targeted Mutagenesis and in vivo Screening. H. Vincent, C. Robinson, and J. Micklefield Methods in Molecular Biology 2014, 1111, 107-129 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-755-6_8)
Orthogonal Riboswitches for tuneable co-expression in bacteria. N. Dixon, C. Robinson, J.N. Duncan, T. Geerlings, S.P. Drummons and J. Micklefield Angew. Chem. INt. Ed. 2012, 51, 3620-3624. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201109106)
Conference contributions, refereed
Orthogonal riboswitches as tools for controlling gene expression in bacteria. N. Dixon, C.J. Robinson, J.N. Duncan, T. Geerlings, S.A. Lestari, J. Micklefield, Collection Symposium Series (2011), 12 (Chemistry of Nucleic Acid Components), 86-94
Conference contributions, other (presenting author is underlined)
C.J. Robinson, N. Dixon, J.N. Duncan, T. Geerlings, M.-C. Wu, P. Lowe, J. Micklefields, “Orthogonal Riboswitches As Tools for Controlling Gene Expression in Bacteria,” RNA 2012: The 17th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, USA. May 29-Jun 2, 2012