Staff profile

Career returner

After a 12 year break from research I returned in 2016 with the help of a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship sponsored by the Biochemical Society.

I am now co-investigator on a 3 year BBSRC research grant looking at the contribution of the Meristem Defective gene, a splicing factor, to root meristem development in Arabidopsis.

• My research interests lie in exploring further the role of pre-mRNA splicing in plant genomes to regulate gene expression.

Journal Article

• Thompson, H., Shen, W., Matus, R., Kakkar, M., Jones, C., Dolan, D., …Lindsey, K. (2023). MERISTEM-DEFECTIVE regulates the balance between stemness and differentiation in the root meristem through RNA splicing control. Development, 150(7), Article dev201476. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201476
• Auricchio, A., Griseri, P., Carpentieri, M., Betsos, N., Staiano, A., Tozzi, A., …Ceccherini, I. (1999). Double heterozygosity for a RET substitution interfering with splicing and an EDNRB missense mutation in Hirschsprung disease. American Journal of Human Genetics, 64, 1216-1221. https://doi.org/10.1086/302329
• Martucciello, G., Thompson, H., Mazzola, C., Morando, A., Bertagnon, M., Negri, F., …Jasonni, V. (1998). GDNF deficit in Hirschsprung's disease. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3468%2898%2990371-2
• Thompson, H., Thompson, H., Schmidt, R., Brandes, A., Heslop-Harrison, J., & Dean, C. (1996). A novel repetitive sequence associated with the centromeric regions of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomes. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004380050319
• Thompson, H., Thompson, H., Schmidt, R., & Dean, C. (1996). Analysis of the occurrence and nature of repeated DNA in an 850 kb region of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 4. Plant Molecular Biology, 32, 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00019109
• Thompson, H., Thompson, H., Schmidt, R., & Dean, C. (1996). Identification and distribution of seven classes of middle-repetitive DNA in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/24.15.3017
• Schmidt, R., West, J., Love, K., Lenehan, Z., Lister, C., Thompson, H., …Dean, C. (1995). Physical map and organization of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 4. Science, 270, 480-483. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.270.5235.480
• Thompson, H., Edwards, K., Thompson, H., Edwards, D., de Saizieu, A., Sparks, C., …Schuch, W. (1992). Construction and characterisation of a yeast artificial chromosome library containing three haploid maize genome equivalents. Plant Molecular Biology, 19, 299-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00027351