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 2.501
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.