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CURRICULUM VITAE
ANALYSIS OF RNA
BACTERIOPHAGE GROWTH:
ANALYSIS OF D-METHIONINE
METABOLISM
ANALYSIS
OF DNA SYNTHESIS DURING THE BACTERIAL DIVISION CYCLE:
ANALYSIS
OF PLASMID REPLICATION DURING THE DIVISION CYCLE
ANALYSIS
OF BACTERIAL GROWTH DURING THE DIVISION CYCLE:
TEMPERATURE
SENSITIVE NONSENSE MUTATIONS:
SEGREGATION OF DNA
ANALYSIS
OF THE EUKARYOTIC DIVISION CYCLE
CAMP IN YEAST AND DICTYOSTELIUM
CELL
WALL SYNTHESIS DURING THE BACTERIAL DIVISION CYCLE
SHAPE OF BACTERIA
METHODS OF CELL CYCLE
ANALYSIS
CAULOBACTER ANALYSIS
MICROBIOLOGICAL HISTORY
FICTION
BOOKS
ABSTRACTS
ACTING
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Stephen Cooper
Date and Place of Birth: August 6, 1937, Brooklyn, New York
Marital Status: Married
Children: Eric, born October 31, 1962
Michael, born August 1, 1966
Grandchildren: Moses, Raya, Joshua, and Leo
Education:
a. Stuyvesant High School, New York City
b. Union College, Schenectady, New York B.A. 1959 (Philosophy)
c. Rockefeller Institute, New York City Ph.D. 1963 (Microbiology)
Graduate Training:
1959-63 Rockefeller University with Dr. Norton Zinder
1963-64 NSF Fellow, University Institute of Microbiology, Copenhagen,
Denmark (Dr. Ole Maaloe)
1964-65 NSF Fellow, National Research Council, Microbial Genetics Research
Unit, London, England (Dr. William Hayes)
1965-66 Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University
School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr. Kivie Moldave)
Additional Scientific Training:
1976 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Mill Hill, London, England (6 months)
1989 Max Planck Institute fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Tubingen, Germany
(6 months), with Uli Schwarz and J.-V. Holtje.
Teaching Appointments:
1966-70 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pediatrics, State
University of New York at Buffalo
1967-70 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry, State
University of New York at Buffalo
1969-70 Lecturer, Department of Biology, State University of New York
at Buffalo
1970-78 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, The University
of Michigan Medical School
1978- Professor, Department of Microbiology, The University of Michigan
Medical School
1981 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Biostatistique, University of
Paris, Paris, France
1990 Dozor Fellow and Visiting Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, to give one month course on Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell Growth
Honors and Awards:
1963-64 National Science Foundation Fellowship, University Institute
of Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark (Dr. Ole Maaloe)
1964-65 National Science Foundation Fellowship, National Research Council,
Microbial Genetics Research Unit, London, England (Dr. William Hayes)
1976 Fogarty International Fellow: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London,
England
1981 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Biostatistique, University of
Paris, Paris, France
1982 Quest for Technology Award, by Control Data Corporation, for potential
application of bioscience to technology.
1986 Max-Planck Fellow, Tubingen, West Germany
1992-1994 Foundation for Microbiology Lecturer, American Society for
Microbiology
Current Membership in Professional Societies:
American Society for Microbiology
Committee and Administrative Services:
Departmental Committees:
General Curriculum
Graduate Studies Committee
Facilities and Services Committee
Seminar Committee (Chairman)
Promotions and Appointments Committee
Medical School Committees:
Phase I Promotion and Review Board for Inteflex
Medical School Summer Research Committee
University Committees:
Choosing Rackham Fellows
Additional Activities:
October 1980 Participant in NATO Conference on Cell Growth in Erice,
Sicily
1981 Paris meeting on Cell Growth, hosted by University of Paris
1987 European Cell Cycle Workshop, Bath, England
1987 EMBO meeting on Bacterial Cell Cycle, Segovia, Spain
1989 Ad hoc meeting on Bacterial Growth, Wageningen, Netherlands
1992 EMBO meeting on Bacterial Cell Surface, April 1992, Palma, Majorca,
Spain.
Over many years seminars have been given in Cambridge (GB), Jena, Leicester,
Geneva, Basle, Munich, Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, as well as many
cities in the United States
1993 Invited speaker, Escherichia coli Chromosome Meeting Madison,
Wisconsin.
1999 Poster Presenter, Gordon Research Conference on "Cancer", Newport,
Rhode Island.
2002. Poster Presenter, Cell Cycle Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor
2002 Keynote Speaker, Gene Expression 2002, Nashville
2003 Lecturer, Mathematical Biology Institute Course on the Cell Cycle,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Editorial functions
1976-78 Editorial Board, Journal of Bacteriology
1997-present Editorial Board, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Advisory or Peer Review Committees:
Ad Hoc member of Study Section on Microbial Physiology (NIH) (approximately
1975)
Member of Study Section to Evaluate Proposals for Microbial Substitutes
for Animal Models (NIH) (1990)
Reviewed proposals for National Science Foundation and NIH.
Reviewed numerous papers for various Journals such as J. Bacteriology,
J. Theoretical Biology, EMBO Journal, Trends in Microbiology, etc.
Training Activities:
Graduate Students:
Jay Keasling, 1991. Currently Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley.
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Postdoctoral fellows have included: Dr. Gert Wuesthoff, Dr. Margaret
Holmes, Dr. David Beckman, Dr. Martin Weinberger, and Dr. David Gally.
Community Activities
Volunteer Counselor for Washtenaw County Council on Aging (aiding in
tax preparation).
Board of Directors, The Mamas & the Puppets, a non-profit corporation
performing shows regarding environmental protection and science education
in elementary schools in Southeast Michigan.
WEB PAGE: www.umich.edu/~cooper
e-mail: cooper@umich.edu
BIBLIOGRAPHY BY CATEGORY
ANALYSIS OF
RNA BACTERIOPHAGE GROWTH:
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Cooper, S., and N. D. Zinder 1962. The growth of an RNA bacteriophage:
the role of DNA synthesis. Virology 18:405-411.
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Cooper, S., and N. D. Zinder 1963. The growth of an RNA bacteriophage:
the role of protein synthesis. Virology 20:605-612.
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August, J. T., S. Cooper, L. Shapiro and N. D. Zinder 1963. RNA
phage induced RNA polymerase. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 28:95-97.
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Zinder, N. D. and S. Cooper 1964. Host-dependent mutants of the
bacteriophage f2. I. Isolation and Preliminary Classification. Virology
23:152-158.
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Lodish, H. F., S. Cooper and N. D. Zinder 1964. Host-dependent mutants
of the bacteriophage f2. IV. On the biosynthesis of viral RNA polymerase.
Virology 24:60-70.
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Cooper, S. and T. Ruettinger 1973. Replication of deoxyribonucleic
acid during the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bact.
111:966-973.
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ANALYSIS OF
D-METHIONINE METABOLISM
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Cooper, S. 1966. Utilization of D-methionine by Escherichia coli.
J. Bacteriol. 92:328-332.
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ANALYSIS
OF DNA SYNTHESIS DURING THE BACTERIAL DIVISION CYCLE:
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Helmstetter, C. E. and S. Cooper 1968. DNA synthesis during the
division cycle of rapidly growing Escherichia coli B/r. J. Mol.
Biol. 31:507-518.
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Cooper, S. and C. E. Helmstetter 1968. Chromosome replication and
the division cycle of Escherichia coli B/r. J. Mol. Biol. 31:519-540.
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Helmstetter, C. E., S. Cooper, O. Pierucci and E. Revelas 1968.
The bacterial life sequence. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 33:809-822.
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Cooper, S. 1969. Cell division and DNA replication following a shift
to a richer medium. J. Mol. Biol. 43:1-11.
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Cooper, S. and G. Wuesthoff 1971. Comment on the use of chloramphenicol
to study the initiation of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. J. Bact. 106:709-711.
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Cooper, S. 1974. On a criterion for using chloramphenicol to define
different processes in the initiation of DNA synthesis in bacteria. J.
Theor. Biol. 46:117-127.
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Cooper, S. 1997. Does the Initiation Mass for DNA Replication in
Escherichia
coli vary with Growth Rate? Molecular Microbiology.
26:1138-1141.
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ANALYSIS
OF PLASMID REPLICATION DURING THE DIVISION CYCLE
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Cooper, S. 1972. Relationship of flac replication and chromosome
replication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 69:2706-2710.
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Keasling, J., Palsson, B. O., and Cooper, S. 1991. Cell-cycle-specific
F plasmid replication: Regulation by cell size control of initiation J.
Bacteriol. 173:2673-2680.
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Keasling, J. D., Palsson, B. O. and Cooper, S. 1992. Replication
of the R6K plasmid during the Escherichia coli cell cycle. J. Bacteriol.
174:1060-1062.
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Keasling, J., and Cooper, S., 1994. Plasmid Replication During the
Bacterial Division Cycle, in Methods in Molecular Genetics, (K. Adolph,
ed.) Academic Press, 380-388
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Keasling, J. D., B. O. Palsson, and S. Cooper 1992. Replication
of Prophage P1 is Cell-Cycle-Specific. J. Bacteriol. 174:4457-4462.
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Keasling, J. D., B. O. Palsson, and S. Cooper 1992. Replication
of mini-F plasmids during the bacterial division cycle. Res. Microbiol.
143:541-548.
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Cooper, S. and Keasling, J. D. 1998. Cycle-specific Replication
of Chromosomal and F-plasmid Origins. FEMS Micro. Lett. 163:217-222
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ANALYSIS
OF BACTERIAL GROWTH DURING THE DIVISION CYCLE:
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Cooper, S. 1970. A model for the determination of growth rate. J.
Theoret. Biol. 28:151-154.
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Margolis, S. C., and S. Cooper 1971. Simulation of bacterial growth,
cell division, and DNA synthesis. Computers and Biomedical Research
8:427-443.
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Cooper, S. 1988. Leucine uptake and protein synthesis are exponential
during the division cycle of Escherichia coli B/r. J. Bact. 170:436-438.
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Cooper, S. 1988. What is the bacterial growth law during the division
cycle? J. Bacteriol. 170:5001-5005.
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Cooper S. 1990. The Escherichia coli cell cycle. Res. Microbiol.
141:17-29.
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Cooper, S., 1995. Bacterial Growth and Division, In Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, R. A. Meyers, editor, VCH Press. pp 57-65.
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Cooper, S., 1996. Bacterial Growth and Division, In Encyclopedia
of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, R. A. Meyers, editor, VCH
Press. pp. 95-103
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Cooper, S. 1999. Bacterial Reproduction and Growth. invited contribution
to the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. MacMillan Reference Ltd, London.
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Hupp, T., Keasling, J., Cooper, S., and Kaguni, J. 1994. Synthesis
of DnaK protein during the division cycle of Escherichia coli. Res.
Microbiol. 145:99-100.
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Cooper, S. 2003 Bacterial
Growth and Division. Article in Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology
and Molecular Medicine. Wiley-VCH. In Press.
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TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE NONSENSE MUTATIONS:
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Beckman, D. and S. Cooper 1973. Temperature-sensitive nonsense mutations
in essential genes of Escherichia coli. J. Bact. 116:1336-1342.
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Cooper, S. and T. Ruettinger 1975. Temperature dependent alteration
in bacterial protein composition. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 62:584-586.
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Cooper, S. and T. Ruettinger 1975. Temperature sensitive synthesis
of a major protein in a TSN mutant of Escherichia coli. Mol. Gen.
Genet. 139:167-176.
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SEGREGATION OF DNA
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Cooper, S. and M. Weinberger 1977. Medium dependent variation of
deoxyribonucleic acid segregation, in Escherichia coli. J. Bact.
130:118-127.
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Cooper, S., M. Schwimmer and S. Scanlon 1978. Probabilistic behavior
of DNA segregation in Escherichia coli. J. Bact. 124:60-65.
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Cooper, S. 1996. Segregation of Cell Surface Structures, an invited
Chapter In F. C. Neidhardt, J. L. Ingraham, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik,
M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella
typhimurium: cellular and molecular biology. American Society for Microbiology,
Washington, D.C., 2nd edition.
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ANALYSIS
OF THE EUKARYOTIC DIVISION CYCLE
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Cooper, S. 1979. A unifying model for the G1 period in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes. Nature 280:17-19.
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Cooper, S. 1981. The continuum model: application to G1-arrest and
G(O), in "Cell Growth", C. Nicolini, ed., Plenum Press. pp. 315-336.
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Cooper, S. 1981. The central dogma of cell biology. Cell Biol. Int.
Rep. 5:539-551.
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Cooper, S. 1982. The continuum model: statistical implications.
J. Theor. Biol. 94:783-803.
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Guiguet, M. and S. Cooper 1982. A critique of the use of DNA synthesis
as a measure of the effect of mitogens on lymphocytes. Biosci. Rep. 2:91-98.
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Cooper, S. 1984 Application of the continuum model to the clock
model of the division cycle. In the Cell Cycle Clocks. L. N. Edmunds (ed.),
pp. 209-218. Marcel Dekker, NY.
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Cooper, S. 1984 The continuum model as a unified description of
the division cycle of eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In the Microbial Cell
Cycle. P. Nurse and E. Streiblova (eds), pp. 7-18. CRC Press, Boca Raton,
FL.
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Cooper, S. 1987. Cell cycle controls in higher eukaryotic cells:
A reply J. Theor. Biol. 127:247-249.
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Cooper, S. 1987. G(0) and Cell Cycle Controls. Bioessays 7:220-223.
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Cooper, S. 1989. The continuum model and c-myc regulation.
J. Theor. Biol. 135:393-400.
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Okuda, A., and S. Cooper 1989. The continuum model: an experimental
and theoretical challenge to the G1-model of cell cycle regulation. Experimental
Cell Res. 185:1-7.
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Cooper, S. 1991. Conjectures on the mathematics of the Division
Cycle: Regulation of cell cycles in bacteria and animal cells. In Arino,
Axelrod, and Kimmel, eds., Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference
on Mathematical Population Dynamics. Marcel Dekker, Inc. pp. 539-546.
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Cooper, S. 1997. G1 and S Phase Gene Expression Cannot
be Analyzed in Mammalian Cells Synchronized by Inhibition. Microb. and
Comp. Genomics. 2:269-273.
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Cooper, S. 1998. On the Interpretation of the Shortening of the
G1-phase by Overexpression of Cyclins in Mammalian Cells. Exp. Cell Res.
238:110-115.
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Cooper, S. 1998. Length Extension in Growing Yeast: Is Growth Exponential?—Yes.
Microbiology. 144:263-266.
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Cooper, S. 1998. On the proposal of a G0 phase and the Restriction
Point FASEB J. 12:367-373.
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Cooper, S. 1998. Mammalian Cells are Not Synchronized in G1 Phase
by Starvation or Inhibition: Considerations of the Fundamental Concept
of G1-phase Synchronization. Cell Prolif. 31:9-16.
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Cooper, S. 1999. The Continuum Model and G1-Control of the Mammalian
Cell Cycle. in Progress in Cell Cycle Research. Vol. 4. Chapter 3 (L. Meijer,
S. Guidet, and M. Philippe, eds.) Plenum Press, NYC. 27-39.
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Cooper, S., Yu, C., and Shayman, J. A 1999. Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation
of Retinoblastoma Protein is Not Necessary for Passage Through the Mammalian
Division Cycle. IUBMB-Life, 48:225-230.
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Cooper, S. 2000. Toward a Standard System for the Mammalian Cell
Cycle. ASM News. 66:71-75.
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Cooper, S., and Shayman, J. A. 2001. Revisiting Retinoblastoma Protein
Phosphorylation during the Mammalian Cell Cycle. Cell. Molec. Life Sci.
58:580-595.
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Cooper, S. 2001. Revisiting the Relationship of the Mammalian G1
Phase to Cell Differentiation. J. Theor. Biol. 208:399-402.
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Shedden,
K. and Cooper, S. 2002. Analysis of Cell-Cycle-Specific
Gene Expression in Human Cells as Determined by Microarrays. Proc.
Natl. Acad.Sci. USA 99:4379-4384.
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Cooper,
S. 2002. Reappraisal of G1-phase arrest and synchronization by
lovastatin. Cell Biol. Int. 27:715-727.
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Cooper,
S. 2002. Minimally Disturbed, Multi-Cycle, and Reproducible Synchrony
using a Eukaryotic "Baby Machine" Bioessays. 24:499-501
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Cooper,
S. 2002. The Schaechter-Bentzon-Maaløe experiment and the analysis
of cell cycle events in eukaryotic cells. Trends in Microbiology. 10:169-173.
(reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science. The Home page of
Trends in Microbiology is http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tim .Single copies
of the article can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal
rsearch and study.
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Shedden,
K. and Cooper, S. 2002. Analysis of Cell-Cycle Gene Expression
in S. cerevisiae Using Microarrays and Multiple Synchronization Methods.
Nucleic Acids Research. 30: 2920-2929
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Cooper,
S. 2002. Cell cycle analysis and microarrays , Trends in Genetics.
18:289-290
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Cooper,
S. 2002. Cell Biology Moves Forward in 2050. ASM News. 68:260-261.
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Cooper,
S. 2003. Rethinking synchronization of mammalian cells for
cell cycle analysis.Accepted for publication,Cellular and Molecular Life
Sciences
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Cooper,
S. 2003. Reappraisal of Serum Starvation, the Restriction Point, G0, and
G1-phaseArrest Points. FASEB Journal. Accepted for publication
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Cooper,
S. 2003. On the Persistence of Forcing Synchronization Methodology
Submitted to Nature.
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Cooper,
S. 2003 How the change from FLM to FACS affected our understanding
of the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Cell Cycle. submitted.
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Cooper,
S. 2004. Is Whole-Culture Synchronization Biology's "Perpetual
Motion Machine"? Trends in Biotechnology. Accepted for publication
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Cooper,
S. 2004. The Continuum Model of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: Application
to G1-phase control, Rb phosphorylation, Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression,
and Cell Synchronization. Clinical Oncology. In Press.
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Cooper,
S. 2004. Whole-culture Synchronization Can Not, and Does Not, Synchronize
Cells. Trends in Biotechnology. In press.
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Cooper,
S. 2004. Reanalysis of the protocol for in vitro synchronization of mammalian
astrocytic cultures by serum deprivation. Brain Research Protocols.
In Press.
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Cooper,
S. 2004. Control of mammalian cell size and cell size maintenance: Analysis
of the model of Conlon and Raff, exponential and linear growth, checkpoints,
and control of the mammalian cell cycle. Theoretical Biology and Molecular
Modeling Submitted for publication.
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Cooper,
S. 2004. On the persistence of Whole-Culture Synchronization for
cell-cycle analysis. in preparation
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CAMP IN YEAST AND
DICTYOSTELIUM
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Dery, C., S. Cooper, M. A. Savageau and S. Scanlon 1979. Identification
and characterization of the camp binding proteins of yeast by photoaffinity
labeling. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 90:993-939.
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Cooper, S., D. A. Chambers and S. Scanlon 1980. Identification and
characerization of the adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate binding proteins
appearing during the development of Dictyostelium discoideum. Biochem.
Biophys. Acta. 629:235-242.
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Cooper, S., S. Scanlon and A. Ferguson 1983. Degradation of a cAMP
binding protein of Dictyostelium discoideum by an endogenous protease.
FEMS Microbiology Letters 18:93-97.
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Cooper, S., K. Dasen, M. Lawton and A. Ferguson 1983. Reconstitution
of a cAMP-dependent protein kinase from Dictyostelium discoideum.
Biochem. Biophys. Acta. 746:120-123.
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CELL
WALL SYNTHESIS DURING THE BACTERIAL DIVISION CYCLE
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Cooper, S. and N. Metzger 1986. Efficient and quantitative incorporation
of diaminopimelic acid into the cell wall of Salmonella typhimurium.
FEMS Microbiol. Letters. 36:191-194.
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Cooper, S. 1987 Where and when is peptidoglycan synthesized during
the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia
coli. In: Proceedings of the ASM Conference on Antibi Bacterial Cell
Wall Synthesis and Assembly. pp79-90. P. Actor, L. Daneo-Mooore, M. L.
Higgins, M. R. J. Salton, and G. D. Shockman, eds. ASM, Washington, DC
20006.
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Cooper, S. 1988. Rate and topography of cell wall synthesis during
the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bact. 170:422-430.
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Cooper, S. and M. L. Hsieh 1988. The use of N-acetylglucosamine
to study the rate and topography of peptidoglycan synthesis during the
division cycle of Escherichia coli. J. Gen. Microbiol. 134:1717-1721.
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Cooper, S., M. L. Hsieh and B. Guenther 1988. The mode of cell wall
synthesis in Salmonella typhimurium: Single strand insertion. J.
Bacteriol. 170:3509-3512.
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Cooper, S. 1990. The relationship of the acceptor-donor radioactivity
ratio and cross-linking in bacterial peptidoglycan: application to surface
growth during the division cycle. J. Bacteriol. 172:5506-5510.
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Cooper, S. 1991. Synthesis of the cell surface during the division
cycle of rod-shaped, Gram-Negative Bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 55:649-674.
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Cooper, S., 1992. Relationship between the acceptor/donor radioactivity
ratio and cross-linking in bacterial peptidoglycan: application to surface
synthesis during the division cycle. J. Bacteriol. 172:5506-5510.
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Cooper, S., Gally, D., Suneoka, Y., Penwell, M., Caldwell, K., and
Bray, K. 1993. Peptidoglycan synthesis in Salmonella typhimurium.
in Bacterial Growth and Lysis, Metabolism and Structure of the Bacterial
Sacculus. Plenum Publishing Co., New York.pp. 161-168.
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Gally, D. and Cooper, S. 1993. Peptidoglycan Synthesis inSalmonella
typhimurium 2616 J. Gen. Microbiol. 139:1469-1476.
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Gally, D., Bray, K., and Cooper, S. 1993. Synthesis of Peptidoglycan
and Membrane During the Division Cycle of Rod-shaped, Gram-negative Bacteria,
J. Bacteriol. 175:3121-3130.
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Licht, J., Gally, D., Henderson, T., Young, K., and Cooper, S. 1993.Effect
of Mecillinam On Peptidoglycan Synthesis During the Division Cycle of Salmonella
typhimurium 2616. Res. Microbiol. 144:423-433
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SHAPE OF BACTERIA
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Cooper, S. 1989. The constrained hoop: An explanation of the overshoot
in cell length during a shift up of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol.
171:5239-5243.
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Cooper, S. 1997. Division Pattern of a Round Mutant of Escherichia
coli. J. Bacteriol. 179:5582-5584.
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Cooper, S. and Denny, M. W. 1997. A conjecture on the relationship
of bacterial shape to motility in rod-shaped bacteria. FEMS Microbiology
Letters. 148:227-231.
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Cooper, S. 2001 Helical Growth and the Shape of Vibrio Cholerae.
FEMS Letters. 198:123-124.
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Cooper, S. 2001. Size, Volume, Length and the Control of the Bacterial
Division Cycle. Microbiology. Microbiology 147: 2629-2630; also
page 2632.
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METHODS OF CELL CYCLE
ANALYSIS
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Cooper, S. 1990. Comparison of backwards and forwards methods of
cell cycle analysis. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 66:1-4.
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Cooper, S., 1994. Analysis of the Bacterial Division Cycle using
Membrane-Elution Method, in Methods in Molecular Genetics, (K. Adolph,
ed.) Academic Press, 234-257
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CAULOBACTER ANALYSIS
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Cooper, S. 1990. An alternative view of the Caulobacter crescentus
division cycle pattern with application to cell differentiation and cell-cycle-specific
synthesis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 242:197-200.
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MICROBIOLOGICAL HISTORY
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Cooper, S., 1993. The Origin and Meaning of the Schaechter-Maaløe-Kjeldgaard
Experiments. J. Gen. Microbiol. 139:1117-1124.
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Cooper, S. 1997. DNA Replication: the 30th Anniversary of the Bacterial
Model and the ‘Baby Machine’. TIBS 22:490-494.
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FICTION
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Cooper, S. 2001. Cell Biology Moves Forward in 2050. ASM News. Accepted
for publication.
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BOOKS
Cooper, S. Bacterial Growth and Division, Biochemistry and Regulation
of prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Division cycles, Academic press. 1991.
Cooper, S and Keasling, J. D. 2001. Cell Growth and Division
In preparation. to be Published by Academic Press.
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ABSTRACTS
Cooper, S. On the existence of a histidine containing protein
required for RNA bacteriophage synthesis. Abstracts of the Biophysical
Society, 1963.
Helmstetter, C., and S. Cooper. Rate of DNA synthesis during
the division cycle of rapidly growing Escherichia coli B/r. Abstracts
of Bacteriological Proceedings of Amer. Soc. for Microbiology, 1967.
Cooper, S. and C. Helmstetter. A model for the synthesis of the
genome of Escherichia coli B/r growing at different rates. Abstracts
of Bacteriological Proceedings of Amer. Soc. for Microbiology, 1967.
Weinberger, M. and S. Cooper. Segregation of DNA in E. coli
B/r. Abstracts of American Society for Microbiology, 1976.
Cooper, S., M. Schwimmer and S. Scanlon. Evidence for the equivalence
of both strands during non-random segregation of DNA in Escherichia
coli B/rK. Abstracts of American Society for Microbiology, 1977.
Cooper, S., D.A. Chambers, S. Scanlon and J.B. Respess. Detection
of developmentally regulated cAMP binding proteins in Dictyostelium
discoideum by photoaffinity labeling. Abstracts of the XIth International
Congress of Biochemistry, Toronto, Canada, p. 509, 1979.
Cooper, S. An alternative view of the G(0) and G1-arrest phases
of the eucaryotic cell cycle. Abstract of 9th annual ICN-UCLA symposia;
control of cellular division and development. At Keystone, Colorado. Published
in J. of Supramol. Struc., Supp. 4, p. 155, 1980.
Cooper, S. The rate and topography of cell wall synthesis during
the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium. Presented at the ASM
Meeting on Antibiotic Inhibition and the Structure of Bacterial Cell Walls,
Philadelphia, PA, May, 1987.
Cooper, S. The Continuum Model: A Unified Explanation of the
G1-period and G(0) States of Animal and Bacterial Cells. Presented at the
Eighth European Cell Cycle Workshop, Bath, England. September 1987.
Cooper, S. The rate and topography of cell wall synthesis during
the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium. Presented at the Eighth
European Cell Cycle Workshop, Bath, England. September 1987.
Cooper, S. The rate and topography of cell wall synthesis during
the division cycle of Salmonella typhimurium. Presented at the EMBO
Conference on Bacterial Growth and Duplication, Segovia, Spain, October,
1987.
Cooper, S. Determination and maintenance of cell shape of rod-shaped
Gram negative bacteria American Society for Microbiology Anaheim, CA 1990.
Keasling, J. and Cooper, S. Cell-cycle-specific F plasmid replication
during the Escherichia coli division cycle: Regulation of replication
by cell size control of initiation 1990. EMBO Workshop on the Bacterial
Cell Cycle, Structural and Molecular Aspects, Collonges-La-Rouge, France,
October 1990.
Keasling, J. and Cooper, S. Cell-cycle-specific F plasmid replication
during the Escherichia coli division cycle: Regulation of replication
by cell size control of initiation 1990. Annual Meeting of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chicago, IL November 1990.
Keasling, J. and Cooper, S. Cell-cycle-Speciificity, Regulation
by cell size control of initiation, and the relationship of different origins
of replication to plasmid synthesis. American Society for Microbiology,
Dallas TX, 1991. May 1991.
Cooper, S. and J. D. Keasling, F Plasmid replication: cell-cycle
specificity, regulation by cell size control of initiation, and the relationship
of different origins of replication to plasmid synthesis. Presented at
Human Frontier Science Program Workshop on Regulatory Mechanisms of DNA
replication in Les Arcs France. March 1991.
Cooper, S. and J. D. Keasling, Synthesis and regulation of cytoplasm,
DNA, cell surface, and plasmid synthesis during the bacterial division
cycle. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant Biol. 1991 Annual Meeting. May-June,
1991.
Cooper, S. and J. D. Keasling, Cell-cycle-specific F plasmid
replication during the Escherichia coli division cycle: Regulation
of replication by cell size control of initiation.To be presented at Gordon
Conference on Extrachromosomal Elements, July, 1991.
Keasling, J. and Cooper, S. Dynamics and Control of Bacterial
Plasmid Replication. AIChE National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. 1991.
Keasling, J. and Cooper, S. Plasmid replication during the division
cycle. Keystone Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms in DNA Replication and
Recombination, Taos, NM. 1992.
Cooper, S., David Gally, Yuko Suneoka, Melissa Penwell, Kelly
Caldwell, and Kelvin Bray. Synthesis of Peptidoglycan in Salmonella
typhimurium. Presented at the FEMS Conference on Bacterial Growth and
Lysis, Lluc, Mallorca, Spain, April 5-10, 1992.
Cooper, S., Michelle Hoefer, Sujatha Singaracharlu, Kelvin Bray,
and Dylan Clyne. Replication of low-copy plasmids at specific times during
the division cycle of Escherichia coli. Presented at the 2nd International
E.
coli Genome Meeting, Madison Wisconsin. September, 1993.
Cooper, S., and Ma., M. Non-random strand segregation in Escherichia
coli and its relationship to cell wall segregation. Presented at the
2nd International E. coli Genome Meeting, Madison Wisconsin. September,
1993.
Cooper, S. The Continuum Model: a reanalysis of the G1-phase
and its relationship to the regulation of the division cycle. Presented
at the 1998 meeting of the Cell Proliferation Society, Cross Keys, Baltimore.
March, 1998.
Cooper, S. Retinoblastoma Phosphorylation During the MammalianDivision
Cycle. Presented at the 1999 Gordon Research Conference, Newport, Rhode
Island, August, 1999.
Shedden, K. and Cooper, S. Statistical analysis of human cell-cycle-specific
gene expression patterns based on microarrays. J. V. Neel Annual Genetics
Symposium, University of Michigan, May, 2001.
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