Congrats to Dr. Greg Gipson!
Congrats to Alena on a productive year in the UC PREP program! We wish you all the best in the Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program at Cincinnati Children’s.
The editor will miss you very much.
Thompson lab had a very inspired time at IEBMC 2022. We are looking forward to finding ways to incorporate MSCs into our workflow!
The editor apologizes for the delay in news updates
Our most recent graduate, Dr. Kaitlin Hart, has successfully defended her thesis and is on her way to a new job at Regeneron!
Kaitlin has been making the rounds for her new structure, including two radio interviews with Tom! Links in the description
Cincinnati Edition with Michael Monks - https://www.wvxu.org/post/blueprint-reproductive-hormone-might-aid-infertility-treatment-women#stream/0
Simply Medicine with Angenette Levy - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-simply-medicine-with-angene-83513102/
Well done, Greg, on your short talk at the TGF-β conference! "Exploring the unique biochemistry of an artificial BMP heterodimer"
Congrats to Kaitlin for her poster award! "Structure of AMH bound to AMHR2 provides insight into a unique signaling pair in the TGF-β family"
The Thompson Lab had a blast attending the TGF-β conference, and we're not just saying that because Tom was an organizer!
Welcome to the lab, Alena!
A new paper and new structure for the binary complex of AMH bound to its receptor, AMHR2. Way to go Kaitlin!
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2104809118
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2021/06/uc-research-findings-may-aid-in-tackling-infertility-in-women.html
Check out our latest work thanks to our most recent graduates, Dr. Jason McCoy and Dr. Erich Goebel. This paper delves into the proteolysis and activation mechanism of myostatin (GDF8). https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20210054
Give it up for the newly-minted Dr. Erich Goebel, PhD!
Jacob Mast joined the lab in March 2021! Jacob is a first year graduate student in the Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology program.
So proud of our own, Erich Goebel! Excellent talk at the 1st virtual BMP forum!
A great read from Thompson lab alum Ryan Walker!
Drew Howard joined the lab in November 2020! Drew is a first year graduate student in the Pharmacology & Systems Physiology program.
2020 was the year of the review, and this was Greg’s second paper published this year!
Congrats Tom on a compelling virtual keynote presentation!
Another great paper from the lab which expands our understanding of the DAN family!
Congratulations to our newest alumni, Dr. Jason McCoy!
Rotation student Drew wins the 2020 lab olympics! Greg places second, and former champion Jason barely clinches third.
Congratulations to Erich Goebel for his project pitch placing first place in the Thompson Lab Retreat — where each member of the lab had to propose a new project for the lab!
Congratulations to Jason McCoy and Erich Goebel for winning the Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology Department’s Student Excellence Awards — awarded for being exemplary young scientists!
Kaitlin published her work on AMH in Endocrinology! Congratulations on the first author!
Erich, Jason, Kaitlin, and Tom published a mini-review in Experimental Biology and Medicine, covering the TGFB family from a structural standpoint!
Congratulations to Jason and Tom for their contributions on a publication getting the cover page of ‘Human Mutation’!
Congratulations to Erich for being award an Faseb Anita Roberts Travel Award!
Congratulations to Tom for being selected to co-host the 12th International TGFB Conference in 2021!
Thompson Lab enjoyed a day at the beach after presenting at TGFB 2019!
Erich and Tom recently published the first Activin Ternary structure in PNAS! https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/15/1906253116.short?rss=1
Jason, Erich, and Tom attended EB 2019 with Erich and Jason presenting their work!
Jason McCoy received the Ryan Fellowship from University of Cincinnati!
Jason and Tom published the structure of the WFIKKN2 Follistatin domain in JBC! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30814254
Kaitlin Hart achieved second place at the 3-minute thesis competition at UC’s Graduate Student Expo for her talk: “The Map of Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH).
Dr. Kattamuri is training visiting professor, Dr. Paul from South Africa in protein purification and crystallography.
Erich and Jason were awarded ASBMB travel awards ($1000!) for the Experimental Biology 2019 meeting and Kaitlin was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistance Award!
Happy Holidays from the Thompson Lab!
Kaitlin and Greg presented at the 2018 Graduate Student Research Fair!
Erich, Jason, and Dr. Thompson attended the 12th International BMP conference in Tokyo, Japan. Erich and Jason were selected to orally present their research!
Third year graduate students, Erich Goebel and Jason McCoy were awarded American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships supporting them for the next two years!
Dr. Thompson, Jason McCoy and Magda Czepnik obtain publicity from UC HealthNews for their recent publication in PNAS: http://healthnews.uc.edu/news/?/29684/
Thompson Lab celebrates our recent PNAS publication!
The Thompson Lab celebrates the holidays in style!
Dr. Thompson was recognized by UC's College of Medicine for his accomplishments as a Mid-career Research Scientist. (Story)
Dr. Thompson participated in the resolution of a field-wide consensus model of human apolipoprotein A-1. (pubmed)
Collaborator, Kelly Walton from Craig Harrison's lab visits the Thompson lab!
Thompson Lab attends the Molgen welcome picnic!
Thompson Lab throws a board game party to say farewell to Kristof Nolan.
Lab alumni, Andy and Lana Deng, celebrate a new addition to the family, Nora!
TT Lab collects X-Ray diffraction data at Argonne National Laboratory
Happy St. Patricks Day from the Thompson Lab!
TT lab celebrates Erich passing his qualifying exam!
Tom Thompson attends FASEB's Capital Hill Day, meeting with nearly 90 congressional offices to advocate for federal science funding and discuss NIH funding.
Publication in BMC biology: "Structural basis for potency differences between GDF8 and GDF11" https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0350-1
Jason McCoy successfully passed his qualifying exam.
New graduate student, Kaitlin Hart, joins the T. Thompson Lab.
Laboratory trip to the Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source outside Chicago
Publication of the Grem2-GDF5 Inhibitory Complex Structure
BMP Conference 2016
Dr. Thompson attended and presented for the 11th International BMP conference held in Boston, Massachusetts
Thesis Defense
Kristof Nolan defended his thesis project, "Insights into the molecular determinants required for DAN-family inhibition of BMP signaling"