Peter Cockerill
Professor Peter Cockerill completed his BSc (Hons) at The University of Melbourne before obtaining his PhD at the Institute for Cancer Research in London in 1983 studying nucleosome architecture. During post-doctoral studies at the University of Texas and at the WEHI he identified a class of DNA elements termed MARs that interact with Topoisomerase II. Since 1990 Peter’s lab has studies the role of chromatin structure and enhancers in inducible and developmentally regulated gene regulation in the immune system and in myeloid leukaemia. Since 2010 at the University of Birmingham his genomics studies included (i) defining the epigenetic basis of acquired immunity in T cells, (ii) defining the roles of STAT5 and AP-1 as pioneer factors during T helper cell differentiation, and (iii) identifying the changes in transcriptional circuitry that occur during the tolerization of auto-immune T cells.
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