Welcome to the Thompson Lab!
Our Science
Pancreatic beta cells (green) undergoing a DNA damage response (red) and being attacked by self-reactive immune cells (blue cells surrounding beta cells) in a mouse model for Type 1 Diabetes.
Our lab uses cutting edge approaches to investigate how and why pancreatic beta cells are destroyed in Type 1 Diabetes.
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Our Location
We are located in the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM), at the Bannatyne Campus of the University of Manitoba.
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Recent news from the lab.
February 2024. Jasmine Manji, former two-summer Undergraduate Research Award (URA) recipient and HEAL4650 project student's manuscript on her work on Brd4-associated proteins and p21 in a senescent mouse beta cell line model was published in Epigenomes! See the published article here. The lab was hosted by Tracey Mcleod-Stecy and family at a T1D fundraiser event to raise funds to support an undergraduate student in the Thompson lab (see more here! Thank you Mcleod-Stecy family for this amazing effort and all your support!
January 2024. Nayara and Jasmine co-authored an invited opinion article highlighting emerging ideas on immune surveillance of senescent beta cells, which was published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism! Congrats Nayara and Jasmine! See the article here.
December 2023. Jasmine Pipella was awarded the prestigious Janice Dodd Award for Excellence in Endocrine Physiology by the Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba and gave a great award presentation at the Department's Edge of Science seminar. Congrats Jasmine! Jasmine Manji completed her HEAL4650 research project finished her time in the Thompson lab! Great work and farewell, Jasmine!
November 2023. The team participates in the 12th annual DREAM symposium at the University of Manitoba. Jasmine Pipella successfully transferred to the Physiology PhD program and was awarded silver in the DREAM symposium poster competition! Congrats Jasmine!
October 2023. Dr. Thompson and graduate student Jasmine Pipella attended and participated in Diabetes Canada/Vascular 2023 conference and the 2nd annual CIRTN meeting held in Montreal! Jasmine presented her work at both meetings on anti-CD3 therapy and beta cell stress in T1D! Well done Jasmine!
September 2023. Roozbeh Akbari Motlagh joins the lab as a research technician after completing his MSc studies at the University of Alberta and Alberta Diabetes Institute. Welcome Roozbeh! Dr. Thompson presented at the 10th annual Helmholtz Diabetes Conference in Munich, Germany, and attended the 59th annual EASD conference in Hamburg, Germany.
January 2024. Nayara and Jasmine co-authored an invited opinion article highlighting emerging ideas on immune surveillance of senescent beta cells, which was published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism! Congrats Nayara and Jasmine! See the article here.
December 2023. Jasmine Pipella was awarded the prestigious Janice Dodd Award for Excellence in Endocrine Physiology by the Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba and gave a great award presentation at the Department's Edge of Science seminar. Congrats Jasmine! Jasmine Manji completed her HEAL4650 research project finished her time in the Thompson lab! Great work and farewell, Jasmine!
November 2023. The team participates in the 12th annual DREAM symposium at the University of Manitoba. Jasmine Pipella successfully transferred to the Physiology PhD program and was awarded silver in the DREAM symposium poster competition! Congrats Jasmine!
October 2023. Dr. Thompson and graduate student Jasmine Pipella attended and participated in Diabetes Canada/Vascular 2023 conference and the 2nd annual CIRTN meeting held in Montreal! Jasmine presented her work at both meetings on anti-CD3 therapy and beta cell stress in T1D! Well done Jasmine!
September 2023. Roozbeh Akbari Motlagh joins the lab as a research technician after completing his MSc studies at the University of Alberta and Alberta Diabetes Institute. Welcome Roozbeh! Dr. Thompson presented at the 10th annual Helmholtz Diabetes Conference in Munich, Germany, and attended the 59th annual EASD conference in Hamburg, Germany.
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