Valery Thompson
Valery Thompson (scientist) Val brings to the lab years of expertise in biochemistry and molecular biology. She has developed techniques to purify and visualize cellular droplets of FUS, hnRNPA1, hnRNPA2B1, TDP-43, and RNA Pol II. She has also biophysically characterized these droplets, providing an in vivo perspective to the work studying these in the test tube. Moreover, she has purified these from ALS patient samples in order for us to determine how the mutations in these proteins disrupt the function of the molecular scaffolds they comprise. Finally, Val’s dogs, Jeldi and Smokey, proud athletes in the agility arena, have been inducted as honorary lab members.
valeryt@email.arizona.edu