Faculty of Science
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4J1 | +1 (902) 494-3540

Alison Thompson

Chemistry
Killam Prize 2007

Education
  
1996 PhD, University of Sheffield, UK
1993 BSc, University of Leicester, UK

Affiliations 

  • Member, Board of Advisors
    SuperNova, 2002-
  • MISA consultant, 2006- 
  • Association of Science Teachers Conference
  • Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Atlantic, 2004 

Honours and awards

  • Killam Prize 2007
  • AstraZeneca Award in Chemistry 2006
  • Pfizer Global Research and Development Division award 2004 and 2002

Publications

40 refereed publications; three refereed conference proceedings; one book contribution; five reviews 

Research Presentations

  • North Carolina State University: “Recent Advances in Dipyrromethene and Pyrrole Chemistry”, Raleigh, NC, November 2006; invited speaker.
  • University of North Carolina: “Recent Advances in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Bidentate Nitorgen-based Complexes”, Raleigh, NC, November 2006.
  • 89th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition: “Recent Advances in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Dipyrromethene Complexes”, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2006.
  • University of New Brunswick: “Synthesis of Helical Dipyrromethene Complexes”, Saint John, New Brunswick, April 2005; invited speaker.
  • Acadia University: “Synthesis of Helical Dipyrromethene Complexes”, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, May 2005; invited speaker.
  • 87th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition: “Synthesis and Applications of Helical Dipyrromethene Complexes”, London, Ontario, May 2004; invited speaker in the symposium entitled “Emerging Organic Synthesis”.
  • Royal Society of Chemistry, Synthesis in Organic Chemistry: “Stereoselective Synthesis of Dipyrromethene Complexes”, Cambridge, England, 2003.
  • Organic and Bioorganic Workshop for Leading, Young Canadian Chemists: Victoria, British Columbia, 2002; invited participant.
  • Maritime Recruitment Tour: “Applications of Dipyrromethenes”, Acadia University, Mount Allison University, Saint Francis Xavier University, Saint Mary’s University, University of New Brunswick, University of Prince Edward Island, fall 2001.

Mentorship

    Mentor highschool (job shadowing) and university students (won Mentor Professor in 2002);  assisted Office of Instructional Development and Technology with presentation of Workshop on Mentoring for New Faculty at Dalhousie in 2002

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    Probing the chemistry of pyrrolic compounds

    Professor Alison Thompson’s research interests include the synthesis and applications of helical dipyrrinato complexes, the development of new methodology for the efficient synthesis of functionalized pyrroles, and the design and synthesis of prodigiosins for evaluation as anticancer treatments.

    Born in Nottingham, England, Professor Thompson obtained her B.Sc. (Hons. Class I) from the University of Leicester, UK, in 1993. In 1996 she gained her Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, UK, for research on the development of catalytic asymmetric aziridination and epoxidation reactions with Professor Varinder Aggarwal. She then spent a year in Strasbourg, France as a postdoctoral fellow with a Royal Society/NATO award. In 1997 Professor Thompson joined the University of British Columbia, Canada to work with Professor David Dolphin.

    She moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2001 to take up a faculty position at Dalhousie University with an NSERC University Faculty Award, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2006.