User:Dr Pierre Cauchy

PhD Bioinformatics, Genomics and Strucural Biochemistry, University of Aix-Marseille II, France

Currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK Research interests: Transcriptional regulation in immune cells, embryonic stem cells and cancer. Main interest in specific and general transcription factors, histone modifications, DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, nucleosome positioning

Domains of expertise:

Wet lab: ChIP, ChIP-chip, ChIP-Seq, MNase-Seq, FAIRE, DNAseI-Seq, expression microarrays, RNA-Seq Bioinformatics: Processing of above-mentioned data, gene clustering, sequence analysis, motif discovery, phylogenetic footprinting.

Publications:

Koch F, Fenouil R, Gut M, Cauchy P, Albert TK, Zacarias-Cabeza J, Spicuglia S, de la Chapelle AL, Heidemann M, Hintermair C, Eick D, Gut I, Ferrier P, Andrau JC. Transcription initiation platforms and GTF recruitment at tissue-specific enhancers and promoters. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2011 Jul 17;18(8):956-63. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2085.

Cauchy P, Benoukraf T, Ferrier P. Processing ChIP-chip data: from the scanner to the browser. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;719:251-68.

Benoukraf T, Cauchy P, Fenouil R, Jeanniard A, Koch F, Jaeger S, Thieffry D, Imbert J, Andrau JC, Spicuglia S, Ferrier P. CoCAS: a ChIP-on-chip analysis suite. Bioinformatics. 2009 Apr 1;25(7):954-5. Epub 2009 Feb 4.