CHARLES THOMPSON
Professor
Email: charles.thompson@ubc.ca
Publications: Charles Thompson's Publications
Lab Tel: 604-822-8094
Lab Rm #: 2520 - 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Life Sciences Centre
Office Tel: 604-822-2501
Office Rm #: 2501 - 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Life Sciences Centre
Associated Departments
Research Groups
- Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation
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Antibiotic Resistance & Biofilms
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.