Thompson Lab

@RamamurthiLab @Dev_Cell Congratulations @RamamurthiLab!

Look who's on the cover of @Dev_Cell:the humble soil bacterium #Bacillus subtilis,in the act of sporulating,depicted using marbles and wooden blocks! Our paper tackles a ~50 yr old mystery of how the cell coordinates assembly of 2 supramolecular structures:sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have extended our application period until Feb. 20th! Please don’t delay, APPLY TODAY!!! 💙❤️🦬 karshstemscholars.submittable.com/submit/207823/… #KarshSTEMScholars #BlackInSTEM #PhD #MDPhD #Science #Engineering #Technology #Math #HighSchoolSenior #ClassOf2022 #BabyBison #Scholarships #HowardU

Happy Birthday Joseph!!! Joseph is a Ph. D. Candidate and the primary mentor for our undergraduate trainees. Feel free to leave a birthday comment🥳🎉

Happy MLK Day! Dr. King once said, “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” As researchers, we understand that sometimes things do not go as expected, but let’s allow this quote to remind us that EVERY step in the journey to discovery counts.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! Dr. Karl Thompson, the Principal Investigator expressed his thanks for the effort and enthusiasm that each lab member puts into their research and developing teamwork in the Thompson Lab. We hope for safe travel for all!!🧡

During labsgiving, we shared our goals for the remainder of the year while enjoying a potluck of homemade cultural dishes!! #HowardUniversity #ThompsonLab #BlackinMicro #Labsgiving

Nothing bets quality time with the Thompson Lab family!! Thankful to be able to conduct research with such amazing people💚🍂

Happy Friday from the Thompson Lab and Dr. Thompson’s daughter, Hadassah! We closed the week with our Friday lunch💚

Today, the @McNairKentState Scholars visited the Thompson Lab. It was wonderful getting to meet the amazing members of this program!

Good mentors share lessons from their experience. Great mentors help you crystallize lessons from your experience. Good mentors give useful answers. Great mentors help you ask better questions. Good mentors walk you through their path. Great mentors help you identify your path.

Removing a key protein from the worm Caenorhabditis elegans near the end of its life can double the worm’s lifespan, demonstrating that life-extending interventions can be made at any age. elifesciences.org/digests/71335/…

Click here to learn more about how Henrietta Lacks’ estate is addressing the exploitation of African Americans in science. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

70 years ago, Henrietta Lacks, a young African American mother, passed away due to an aggressive cervical cancer. Unknowingly, her cells were extracted. HeLa cells became the first human cells to survive outside the body and were the primary cell line for the COVID vaccine.

@Primary_Immune Thanks for the shout out @Primary_Immune!

@ThompsonLabHU Hello to the 🥇scientists🏆at the Howard University Thompson Lab. Happy "Black In Micro" Week to you, and to all who have shared such inspirational profiles.

Working hard in the lab during #BlackInMicroWeek #BlackInMicroRollCall #BlackInMicro #HU

Excited to start working with our new cells this week!! Our lab’s Ph.D Candidate working alongside our undergraduate researchers🧫

After a great lunch, we utilized a flipped classroom discussion to learn more about microbiology. #BIM

@olufoIakemi @nyugrossman @HowardU @TorresVJ_Lab @BlackInMicro 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

If anyone wants to read a cool interview I did with the @HoustonChron @SugarLandSun here it is! houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/s…

@HowardU we study stress responses, gene regulation, RNA modifications, small RNAs, and sigma factors in several bacteria. This our crop of new undergrad trainees. #BlackinMicroRollCall #BlackinMicroWeek #BlackInMicro #nsffunded #WomenInSTEM