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Current position
Postdoctoral Fellow, RSBS
Research interests
In mammals, females have two X chromosomes while males have just
one. To compensate for the difference in gene dosage between males
and females, eutherians (placentals) and marsupials inactivate
one X chromosome. My research aims to find out if X chromosome
inactivation is also used for dosage compensation in monotremes.
Collaboration: Dr Kathy Belov, Australian Museum. Marsupial
and monotreme immunology.
Selected Publications
Deakin JE and Cooper DW (in press) Characterization and immunity
to aerobic bacteria found in the pouch of the brustail possum
(Trichosurus vulpecula). Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect
Dis
Deakin JE and Cooper DW (1999) Characterisation of bacterial
species in the pouch of the Australian brushtailed possum (Trichosurus
vulpecula). In Advances in the Biological Control of possums.
Roy. Soc. New Zealand Miscellaneous Series 56: 60-64
Butler CM, Harry JL, Deakin JE, Cooper DW, Renfree MB. Developmental
expression of the androgen receptor during virilization of the
urogenital system of a marsupial. Biol Reprod. 1998 Oct;59(4):725-32.
Saunders MC, Deakin J, Harrison GA, Curlewis JD. cDNA cloning
of growth hormone from the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
Gen Comp Endocrinol. 1998 Jul;111(1):68-75.
Deakin JE, Harrison GA, Cooper DW (1998) Androgen receptor as
a potential target for immunosterilisation in the brushtail possum.
Roy. Soc. New Zealand Miscellaneous Series 45:. 44-45
Deakin JE and Cooper DW (1998) Pouch microflora in the brushtail
possum and maternal immunity transfer to the pouch young. Roy.
Soc. New Zealand Miscellaneous Series 45: 46-48.
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