Faculty DirectoryThomas Hope
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Contact
Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center 9th Floor303 E Superior
Chicago, IL 60611
Email Thomas Hope
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Departments
Education
PhD: University Of California-Berkeley, Immunology (1988)
Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco (1992)
Research Interests
My laboratory studies various aspects of HIV science taking a cell biology approach. The centerpiece of our approach is microscopic imaging, which provides important information relating to context and dynamics of biological functions. To study HIV, the Hope lab has developed a series of techniques and tools that allow the fluorescent labeling of HIV particles or viral proteins and the identification of infected cells. We can now follow virions and infected cells from the tissue culture dish to whole animal models. For more than a decade we have combined this cell biology approach, supplemented with molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics to study various aspects of HIV from virus entry and assembly, to defining the earliest steps of the sexual transmission of HIV. The studies to define the mechanisms of transmission have recently redirected a large aspect of the lab to HIV prevention science, including vaccine and microbicide research.
Selected Publications
The cyclosporin a washout assay to detect HIV-1 uncoating in infected cells
Hulme AE, Hope TJ.
Methods in Molecular Biology. 2014 Jan;1087:37-46.doi:10.1007/978-1-62703-670-2-4.
ISSN: 10643745
Differential Binding of IgG and IgA to Mucus of the Female Reproductive Tract
Fahrbach KM, Malykhina O, Stieh DJ, Hope TJ.
PLoS ONE. 2013 Oct 2;8(10):doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076176.
PMID: 24098437 ISSN: 19326203
Using antiubiquitin antibodies to probe the ubiquitination state within rhTRIM5α cytoplasmic bodies
Danielson CM, Hope TJ.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 2013 Oct;29(10):1373-1385.doi:10.1089/aid.2013.0029.
ISSN: 08892229
New paradigms for functional HIV-specific nonneutralizing antibodies
Forthal D, Hope TJ, Alter G.
Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 2013 Sep;8(5):393-401.doi:10.1097/COH.0b013e328363d486.
PMID: 23924999 ISSN: 1746630X