Distinguished Scholar Scholarship, Central College

Training Grant from Pioneer Hi-Bred International

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, NSF and Iowa State University

Exceptional Performance Award, University Hygienic Lab

Baccam, P., Thompson, R. J., Fedrigo, O, Carpenter, S. Cornette, J. (2001). PAQ: Partitioning Analysis of Quasispecies. Bioinformatics 17: 16-22.

Baccam, P., Thompson, R.J., Li, Y., Wood, W.O., Belshan, M., Dorman, K.S., Wannemuehler, Y., Oaks, J.L., Cornette, J.L., Carpenter, S. (2003). Sub-populations of equine infectious anemia virus Rev co-exist in vivo and differ in phenotype. J Virology Nov; 77(22): 12122-31.

Price, M.P., Thompson, R.J., Eshcol, C.O., Wemmie, J.A., Benson, C.J. (2004). Stomatin modulates gating of ASIC channels. J Biol Chem Dec 17; 279(51): 53886-91.

Maury, W., Thompson, R.J., Jones, Q., Bradley, S., Denke, T., Baccam, P., Smazik, M., Oaks, J.L. (2005). Evolution of the equine infectious anemia virus LTR during the altercation of cell tropism. J Virology May: ;79(9): 5653-64

Boddicker, J.D, Rota, P.A, Kreman, T., Wangeman, A., Lowe, L., Hummel, K. B., Thompson, R., Bellini, W.J., Pentella, M., Desjardin, L.E. (2007). Real-time reverse transcription-PCR assay for detection of mumps virus RNA in clinical specimens. J Clinical Microbiology. Sept; 45 (9): 2902-8