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Christopher Collins

- Verified email at cmu.edu - Cited by 583

Charles R. Collins

- Verified email at uw.edu - Cited by 523

Prokaryotic genome size and SSU rDNA copy number: estimation of microbial relative abundance from a mixed population

GB Fogel, CR Collins, J Li, CF Brunk - Microbial ecology, 1999 - Springer
Determination of the relative abundance of a specific prokaryote in an environmental sample
is of major interest in applied and environmental microbiology. Relative abundance can be …

A Plant-Like Kinase in Plasmodium falciparum Regulates Parasite Egress from Erythrocytes

…, DC Martyn, SD Patel, JS Grimley, CR Collins… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Clinical malaria is associated with the proliferation of Plasmodium parasites in human
erythrocytes. The coordinated processes of parasite egress from and invasion into erythrocytes …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria parasite cGMP-dependent protein kinase regulates blood stage merozoite secretory organelle discharge and egress

CR Collins, F Hackett, M Strath, M Penzo… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The malaria parasite replicates within an intraerythrocytic parasitophorous vacuole (PV).
Eventually, in a tightly regulated process called egress, proteins of the PV and intracellular …

A circle packing algorithm

CR Collins, K Stephenson - Computational Geometry, 2003 - Elsevier
A circle packing is a configuration P of circles realizing a specified pattern of tangencies.
Radii of packings in the euclidean and hyperbolic planes may be computed using an iterative …

Effect of inorganic and organic ligands on the mechanism of cadmium sorption to goethite

CR Collins, KV Ragnarsdottir, DM Sherman - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 1999 - Elsevier
Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) spectroscopic data for Cd 2+ sorbed on
goethite in the presence of phosphate, sulphate and humate indicate that cadmium is …

Robust inducible Cre recombinase activity in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum enables efficient gene deletion within a single asexual erythrocytic …

CR Collins, S Das, EH Wong… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Asexual blood stages of the malaria parasite, which cause all the pathology associated with
malaria, can readily be genetically modified by homologous recombination, enabling the …

The mechanism of cadmium surface complexation on iron oxyhydroxide minerals

…, DM Sherman, KV Ragnarsdottir, CR Collins - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 1999 - Elsevier
Many sediment and soil systems have become significantly contaminated with cadmium, and
earth scientists are now required to make increasingly accurate predictions of the risks that …

Tuning hyperparameters without grad students: Scalable and robust bayesian optimisation with dragonfly

…, W Neiswanger, B Paria, CR Collins… - Journal of Machine …, 2020 - jmlr.org
Bayesian Optimisation (BO) refers to a suite of techniques for global optimisation of expensive
black box functions, which use introspective Bayesian models of the function to efficiently …

Transforming individual civic engagement into community collective efficacy: The role of bonding social capital

CR Collins, JW Neal, ZP Neal - American journal of community psychology, 2014 - Springer
Collective efficacy is defined as residents’ perceived collective capacity to take coordinated
and interdependent action on issues that affect their lives. This study explored factors …

[PDF][PDF] Processing of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein MSP1 activates a spectrin-binding function enabling parasite egress from RBCs

…, N Hertrich, AJ Perrin, C Withers-Martinez, CR Collins… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum replicates within erythrocytes, producing progeny
merozoites that are released from infected cells via a poorly understood process called …