Dr Catherine McKeen

Dr Catherine McKeen

Undergraduate student (1992-1993)

Following a Masters project in the Brown group, Catherine started working with Oswel in 1994 as a Senior Chemist and continued to work with Oswel/Eurogentec in the UK, Belgium and the US in Production Manager/Operations Manager roles until 2009. She is now the Product Manager at Link Technologies Ltd.

5 Papers

A comparative study of digoxigenin, 2,4-dinitrophenyl, and alkaline phosphatase as deoxyoligonucleotide labels in non- radioisotopic in situ hybridisation

S. J. Harper, E. Bailey, C. M. McKeen, A. S. J. Stewart, J. H. Pringle, J. Feehally and T. Brown. J. Clin. Pathol. 50 (8), 686-690, 1997.

DNA triple helix stabilisation by covalent attachment of a triplex-specific ligand

M. D. Keppler, C. M. McKeen, O. Zegrocka, L. Strekowski, T. Brown and K. R. Fox. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Gene Struct. Expression 1447 (2-3), 137-145, 1999.

Duplex Scorpion primers in SNP analysis and FRET applications

A. Solinas, L. J. Brown, C. M. McKeen, J. M. Mellor, J. T. G. Nicol, N. Thelwell and T. Brown. Nucleic Acids Res. 29 (20), 96, 2001.

High throughput measurement of duplex, triplex and quadruplex melting curves using molecular beacons and a LightCycler

R. A. J. Darby, M. Sollogoub, C. M. McKeen, L. Brown, A. Risitano, N. Brown, C. Barton, T. Brown and K. R. Fox. Nucleic Acids Res. 30 (9), e39, 2002.

Synthesis of fluorophore and quencher monomers for use in Scorpion primers and nucleic acid structural probes

C. M. McKeen, L. J. Brown, J. T. G. Nicol, J. M. Mellor and T. Brown. Org. Biomol. Chem. 1 (13), 2267-2275, 2003.