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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7359
Email
peter.stockwell@otago.ac.nz
Position
Scientific Officer
Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BSc(Hons) PhD
Research summary
Bioinformatics
Teaching
Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Bioinformatics (BINF701) beginning second semester 2023

Research

Peter’s role includes computer analysis of epigenetic data, especially from bisulphite sequencing. He also writes software to support the epigenetics analysis.

Publications

Yassi, M., Ezegbogu, M., Rodger, E. J., Stockwell, P., Chatterjee, A., & Parry, M. (2026). DNAmBERT: A transformer-based model for non-invasive cancer diagnosis using DNA sequence and methylation data. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 27(5), bbag455. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbag455 Journal - Research Article

Ezegbogu, M., Stockwell, P. A., Reid, G., Brockway, B., Kumar, R., Rodger, E., & Chatterjee, A. (2026). Comparison of enzymatic and bisulfite-based methods for sequencing-based cell-free DNA methylation profiling. Frontiers in Epigenetics & Epigenomics, 3, 1693925. doi: 10.3389/freae.2025.1693925 Journal - Research Article

Lynch-Sutherland, C. F., McDougall, L. I., Stockwell, P. A., Chatterjee, A., Gamage, T. K. J. B., James, J. L., Rodger, E. J., Weeks, R. J., Ludgate, J. L., Macaulay, E. C., & Eccles, M. R. (2026). Transcriptional activation of transposable element (TE)-associated genes is frequently associated with altered promoter methylation in placenta and melanoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 27, 5827. doi: 10.3390/ijms27135827 Journal - Research Article

Lynch-Sutherland, C., Stockwell, P., Chatterjee, A., Eccles, M. R., & Macaulay, E. (2026). Epigenetic deregulation of transposable elements links developmental processes and tumorigenesis [Review]. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 27(6), 2690. doi: 10.3390/ijms27062690 Journal - Research Article

Peppercorn, K., Sharma, S., Edgar, C. D., Stockwell, P. A., Rodger, E. J., Chatterjee, A., & Tate, W. P. (2025). Comparing DNA methylation landscapes in peripheral blood from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long COVID patients. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, 6631. doi: 10.3390/ijms26146631 Journal - Research Article

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