Tom Thompson Lab

Dear colleagues, friends, and followers!📢 We’re excited to share that all updates on our latest scientific achievements and lab activities will now be posted on our Bluesky profile.🦋 Follow us to stay in the loop! 🧫🧪⬇️ bsky.app/profile/thomps…

"What if, instead of dreaming to marry a prince, she could dream about creating a vaccine, winning an Olympic medal or walking on Mars?" — Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬💪

TT lab's holiday party: from goofy gifts to heartfelt memories!🎄🎉The Xtals Awards reminded us of our incredible year together – challenges, victories, lessons learned, and everything in between. Here’s to a fabulous 2025!✨#LabLife #HolidayVibes

The TT Lab Olympics is behind us, and the entire lab had an amazing time competing, learning and supporting each other. A special congratulations to this year's champion, Drew Howard, for an outstanding performance!🏅 Looking forward to next year! #TeamBuilding 💪 #ScienceFun 🧪

New session alert! "BMPs in reproduction" in the 2nd Virtual BMP Forum chaired by Petra Knaus. Speakers are Tom Thompson @ThompsonLab3 and Dan Bernards @BetaglycanDan. When? Oct 9th at 3 pm CET. Please share and sign up 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1_Jfhw…

🗓️ Save the date: Oct 13-16, 2024! SEBM Council organizes the Experimental Biology & Medicine Conference in Kissimmee, FL! The EBMC is an interdisciplinary event bringing together established scientists and trainees.📚 👉Register here: exbiomedcon.org

Our lab presented six poster presentations and gave three oral presentations showcasing our latest work. 😎💪 Above all, we were delighted that Drew Howard won first award for best short talk and Jacob Mast won second prize for best poster presentation. 🏆👏🔝

What an amazing week behind TTlab! 🎉 From July 21 until July 25, we participated at the FASEB TGF-β Superfamily conference held in Niagara Falls, NY. 🌊 #TGFSRC

A truly inspiring experience! #TGFSRC We had a valuable opportunity to dive into the latest advancements in the field, learn from cutting-edge discussions and connect with brilliant scientists from academia and industry. We came back full of energy and new ideas!💡🧪🧫

Our graduate student, Jacob Mast, received funding from the American Heart Association for his research and was awarded for excellence by the UC Department of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences 👏🧫🧪🔝

Dr. Thompson was invited to participate in the Nobel symposium 'TGF-β Family: Future Frontiers in Medicine and Physiology' that took place at Bergendal, Sweden 🇸🇪, from the 27th to the 30th of May. 👏

In summary, our research into AMH's non-latent signaling offers groundbreaking insights into its structure, function, and evolutionary history, laying the groundwork for future therapeutic developments. Many thanks to the lab and to our collaborators in Boston! 10/10

Our study sheds light on AMH's signaling mechanism, revealing how the prodomain's unique structure facilitates receptor interaction without inducing latency, offering a novel perspective on the mechanism. ✨9/10

Comparing AMH's open conformation in the procomplex with the closed, receptor-bound form reveals a dynamic structural shift, essential for signal activation. This transition, and the extremely open and extended GF conformation, structure is unique among TGFβ ligands. 🔁 6/10

A comparison of the AMH prodomain with other TGFβ family members underscores its evolutionary divergence. Unlike others, AMH facilitates signaling in a procomplex form, a fundamental departure from conventional latency and the typical binding mode. 5/10

We are thrilled to share our latest preprint on the Anti-Müllerian Hormone and its unique signaling pathway. Our first ever cryo-EM structure represents a breakthrough over 40 years in the making. 🧬🔍 (@drewhow66) Check out our findings here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10