Thompson Lab - Principal Investigator

Charles Thompson
Professor

BSc., Washington & Lee University (1971); MSc, PhD., The Pennsylvania State University (1976); Postdoctoral fellow: The University of Wisconsin (1977-8); John Innes Institute-UK (1979-81)

Email: charles.thompson[at]ubc.ca
Office Telephone: 604-822-2501
Fax: 604-822-6041

Address:
Room 1372
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Life Sciences Centre
Vancouver, BC
Canada
V6T 1Z3

Research Interests

Regulation of bacterial gene expression. The transcriptional regulators we study program antibiotic biosynthesis and resistance as well as differentiated states during colonial morphogenesis in Streptomyces, bacteria that produce the majority of known antibiotics. More recently, we have extended concepts of innate antibiotic resistance and developmental states discovered in Streptomyces to related Mycobacteria, drug resistant pathogens that cause tuberculosis and leprosy.