About the Speaker:

Bio:

Dr. Matthew Thompson is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Alabama.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2017
• PhD, North Carolina State University, 2011
• BS, Eastern Kentucky University, 2004

Research:

Research in the Thompson lab lies within the context of mechanistic enzymology and protein structural/biophysical chemistry. In essence, we will use a chemistry approach to address key problems in biology and biophysics. Students and postdocs in our group will receive training in a combination of biochemical and biophysical techniques, chemical biology, spectroscopy (Raman and EPR), and structural biology (X-ray and neutron crystallography). We are currently interested in a number of projects ranging from antibiotic resistance to protein electron transfer.