Addie Thompson

Addie Thompson is an American biologist and educator, currently Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Her areas of expertise are Maize genetics and genomics; quantitative genetics; plant morphology; drought stress; and high-throughput phenotyping.

Thompson received her Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, (2004-2008) and Ph.D. (Applied Plant Sciences - Plant Breeding and Molecular Genetics) from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (2008-2014). In 2014-2015, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Minnesota, and in 2015-2017, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Since January 2018, Thompson is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Michigan.

Her lab, The Thompson lab, studies maize genetics and genomics; quantitative genetics; plant morphology; drought stress; and high-throughput phenotyping. The lab is interested in studying maize, and how different genotypes grow in different environments. They use many technologies and approaches to investigate this area, from quantitative genetics to phenomics to statistical and physiological modeling. 

Selected publications

• Van Eeuwijk F, Bustos-Korts D, Millet E, Boer M, Kruijer W, Thompson A, Malosetti M, Iwata H, Quiroz R, Kuppe C, Muller O, Blazakis K, Yu K, Tardieu F, Chapman S. 2017. Assessing the efficiency of phenotyping strategies. Submitted, Plant Science.
• Massafaro M, Thompson A, Tuinstra M, Dilkes B and Weil C. 2016. Mapping the Increased Protein Digestibility Trait in the High-Lysine Sorghum Mutant P721Q. Crop Science 56(5): 2647-2651.
• Ramamurthy K, Zhang Z, Thompson A, He F, Crawford M, Habib A, Weil C, Tuinstra M. 2016. Predictive Modeling of Sorghum Phenotypes with Airborne Image Features. KDD DS-FEW 2018.
• Bernardo R and Thompson A. 2016. Germplasm Architecture Revealed through Chromosomal Effects for Quantitative Traits in Maize. Plant Genome 9(2).
• Kelly D, Vasta Avimanyou, Mayham W, Ngo L, Thompson A, and Kazic T. 2015. An Opinion on Imaging Challenges in Phenotyping Field Crops. Machine Vision and Applications. December Special Issue: 1-14.
• Thompson A, Yu J, Timmermans M, Schnable P, Crants J, Scanlon M, and Muehlbauer G. 2015. Diversity of maize shoot apical meristem architecture and its relationship to plant morphology. G3 5(5):819-27.
• Thompson A, Crants J, Schnable P, Yu J, Timmermans M, Springer N, Muehlbauer G. 2014. Genetic control of maize shoot apical meristem architecture. G3 4(7):1327-37.
• Makarevitch I, Thompson A, Muehlbauer G, Springer N. 2012. Brd1 gene in maize encodes a brassinosteroid C-6 exidase. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30798
• Li L, Yu X, Thompson A, Guo M, Yoshida S, Asami T, Chory J, Yin Y. 2009. Arabidopsis MYB30 is a direct target of BES1 and cooperates with BES1 to regulate brassinosteroid-induced gene expression. The Plant J. 58(2):275-86.