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Hi, I'm Tim Vickers, glad to be here.
As you can probably guess from my contributions so far, I am a biochemist with interests in tropical diseases and enzymology. I did my PhD in biochemistry at Dundee University in Scotland but at the moment I am working in America.
If anybody has any questions about these topics I would be delighted to try to help. I am usually glad to answer questions and research stuff for articles, after all, favours owed are valuable things.
At the moment I'm working on bringing as many basic molecular biology, biochemistry and infectious disease articles up to FA level as I can. Even with the help of all the expert editors in the MCB project, this is going to be a very long process, but generations of students will bless our efforts as they plagiarise our text!
The MCB project is a group of editors interested in improving the quality of Wikipedia articles on molecular life sciences. Since these pages are usually the top Google hit on any biochemical subject you care to mention, this is more important from an academic viewpoint than you might think. Anybody interested in helping out can sign up on the project page. You will be most welcome.
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The E=mc² Barnstar |
| While trawling through the deleted revisions of Bacteria in an effort to delete 1 bad revision, I noticed you had put in a huge effort on that article so I am awarding you this barnstar. ViridaeTalk 00:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| for tireless & good-humoured work on the Homeopathy page; well done Tim! Peter morrell 12:13, 15 July 2006 (UTC) |
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Golden Wiki |
This Golden Wiki was well-earned by newbie Tim Vickers for his months of work in bringing Enzyme to Featured Article status, and for his constructive way of interacting with other editors; a truly professional Wikipedian.
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I, ClockworkSoul, do hereby award this barnstar to Tim Vickers in recognition to all of his hard work in perfecting a long series of enzyme-related articles.
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To Tim Vickers for his edits to bacteria, which truly made it one of Wikipedia's finest articles. -- Samir धर्म 04:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
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Knight-errant of the FA |
The noble Theodor, High King in Wikipedia, gazes with marveling favour on the Featured Articles of Tim Vickers:
Enzyme, Enzyme kinetics, Enzyme inhibitor, Influenza, Tuberculosis, Bacteria, Immune system, DNA, Antioxidant and Metabolism
The king therefore dubs Tim a Knight-errant of the FAe. May Mab herself bless Tim's work! |
Links to papers
Vickers TJ, Orsomando G, de la Garza RD, Scott DA, Kang SO, Hanson AD, Beverley SM. Biochemical and genetic analysis of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in leishmania metabolism and virulence. J Biol Chem. 2006 Dec 15;281(50):38150-8.
Greig N, Wyllie S, Vickers TJ, Fairlamb AH. Trypanothione-dependent glyoxalase I in Trypanosoma cruzi. Biochem J. 2006 Dec 1;400(2):217-23.
Ariza A, Vickers TJ, Greig N, Armour KA, Dixon MJ, Eggleston IM, Fairlamb AH, Bond CS. Specificity of the trypanothione-dependent Leishmania major glyoxalase I: structure and biochemical comparison with the human enzyme. Mol Microbiol. 2006 Feb;59(4):1239-48.
Vickers TJ, Greig N, Fairlamb AH. A trypanothione-dependent glyoxalase I with a prokaryotic ancestry in Leishmania major. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Sep 7;101(36):13186-91.
Vickers TJ, Wyllie S, Fairlamb AH. Leishmania major elongation factor 1B complex has trypanothione S-transferase and peroxidase activity. J Biol Chem. 2004 Nov 19;279(47):49003-9.
Saravanamuthu A, Vickers TJ, Bond CS, Peterson MR, Hunter WN, Fairlamb AH. Two interacting binding sites for quinacrine derivatives in the active site of trypanothione reductase: a template for drug design. J Biol Chem. 2004 Jul 9;279(28):29493-500.
Vickers TJ, Fairlamb AH. Trypanothione S-transferase activity in a trypanosomatid ribosomal elongation factor 1B. J Biol Chem. 2004 Jun 25;279(26):27246-56.
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