Frances (Fran) Lund completed her undergraduate studies in Microbiology at the University of Notre Dame (B.S., cum laude, 1987). She performed her graduate work with Dr. Ronald B. Corley in the Department of Microbiology at Duke University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Immunology in 1992 and went on to a post-doctoral immunology fellowship in Dr. Maureen Howard’s group at DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. In 1997 she moved to the Trudeau Institute, a basic biomedical infectious disease rese...
I am a bioinformatics scientist with industry and academic experience. Currently, I engage in collaborative research on projects primarily in immunology and infectious disease. These collaborations serve as an opportunity for requirements gathering that my group can use for developing bioinformatics tools which can be used more broadly in the community. I serve as director of the Data Analytics and Bioinformatics Core for the UAB Cooperative Centers on Human Immunology U19 award as well as co...
I love studying immune responses, especially to viral infections! As a graduate student, under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffery Frelinger at the University of North Carolina, I investigated the direct anti-viral roles of CD4 T cells and how they adopt cytotoxic effector activities. These were significant as they illustrated the plasticity of effector anti-viral CD4 T cells and highlighted that they could develop pathogenic cytolytic capabilities, which was arguably under-appreciated at the time. ...
Dr. Ballesteros-Tato completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the Autonoma University of Madrid in Spain in July 2007. In his Ph.D. thesis work, he studied the role of the cell cycle inhibitor p21 and the apoptosis-inducing Fas receptor in controlling immunological tolerance in different murine and human autoimmune diseases. Beginning in March of 2008, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Troy Randall at Trudeau Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, and then later moved with Dr. Randall's lab to th...
The main goal of Dr Adrie JC Steyn’s research group is to understand the mechanisms whereby Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) persist for decades without causing disease, to then suddenly explode.
The Steyn Group is currently working on several projects centered on host gasotransmitters such as nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S), and M. tuberculosis redox homeostasis and bioenergetics, the role it plays in latency and persistence of the mycoba...
Dr. Bansal's research interest focuses on adaptive T-cell responses in HIV-1 transmission and pathogenesis. She's especially interested in understanding the role of HIV-1 specific CD8 and CD4 T-cells and their interplay with the host genetics in influencing the course of HIV-1 disease. This basic information is imperative for HIV-1 vaccine design as the correlates of immune protection are yet unknown. She is also interested in studying the role of T cell in HIV associated cancers.
My lab's overall research goal is to understand and investigate the cellular and immunological mechanisms underlying the initiation and progression of synucleinopathy disorders. Specifically, my lab research focuses on how the protein alpha-synuclein contributes to microglial activation, peripheral immune cell infiltration, and subsequent activation of the immune response in Parkinson disease (PD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) models. In the lab we work with multiple immune cell types, incl...
Barry Sleckman completed his M.D. and a Ph.D. in immunology at Harvard Medical School, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital. After completing his post-doctoral training in molecular immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Frederick Alt at Boston Children's Hospital, Sleckman started his own laboratory in 1998 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Washington University School of Me...
Beatriz León earned her bachelor's degree in Biology (2002) from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She performed graduate work with Dr. Carlos Fernandez-Ardavín at the Dept. of Immunology and Oncology, CNB-CSIC, in Madrid, Spain. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 2007. In 2008, Dr. León joined Dr. Frances E. Lund's lab as a post-doctoral associate at Trudeau Institute, NY, and the University of Rochester, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology. In 201...
Dr. Bradley K. Yoder, Professor, completed his undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (B.S. 1988) and received a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Maryland in 1993. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Rick Woychik, where Dr. Yoder was an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. His research over the past two decades has focus...
Dr. Orihuela obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Baylor University in 1996. He subsequently earned his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a Kempner Scholar. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Orihuela completed his postdoctoral research training in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis TN. He returned to T...
Carrie B. Coleman obtained her B.S. with a concentration in Microbiology at the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2002. As a graduate student she joined the lab of Dr. Scott Tibbetts in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport. Her work in Dr. Tibbetts lab involved utilizing a murine gammaherpesvirus, MHV68, as an in vivo model to characterize the role of developing B cells in the maintenance of viral latency. She obtained her Ph.D. in virology in...
Dr. Raman’s laboratory interrogates molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases with a special emphasis on multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Within this are of research, the current studies focus on molecular mechanisms underlying activation and differentiation of effector T cells, B cells and innate cells in the pathogenesis of these autoimmune diseases. Current investigations involve human immunology bridged with mouse models to ...
Dr. Elson received his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, trained in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell, then did his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. After doing full-time research in immunology at N.I.H., he joined the Faculty of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Medical College of Virginia. He moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and subsequently served a...
Introduction & Research:
Dr. Ochsenbauer pursued HIV research since her doctoral thesis at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg. She came to UAB for postdoctoral training in molecular retrovirology with Dr. Eric Hunter. Over the last decade, she focused on questions pertinent to HIV-1 transmission She contributed several novel, highly relevant virologic reagents to the HIV prevention field, including the first infectious molecular clones that represent nucleotide exact copies o...
My laboratory is interested in understanding how the blood-brain barrier changes during aging. Breakdown of the blood-brain-barrier impairs leads to a poor neurovascular microenvironment and ultimately impairs cognitive function and can contribute to neurodegeneration. We aim to uncover mechanisms of vascular aging that may contribute to blood-brain barrier breakdown. Much of our previous findings have been related to alteration in mitochondrial function and inflammation within cerebrovascular v...
My research focuses on the mechanisms by which biological systems harness the generation of reactive species to modulate cell signaling pathways and maintain physiological homeostasis. My group is particularly interested in elucidating the mechanisms that result in the formation of electrophilic species in vivo. Electrophiles can regulate enzymatic and transcription factor function via covalent modification of reactive cysteine residues. In this regard, our overarching hypothesis is that the end...
Dr. Standaert was named the John N. Whitaker Professor & Chair of Neurology in 2012. Prior to that, he was appointed the John T. and Juanelle D. Strain Endowed Chair by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system, which he held for five years. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in medicine and pharmacology in 1988. He completed a one-year internship in medicine at Jewish Hospital of St. Louis in 1989 and a three-year neurology residency i...
Dr. Debasish Chattopadhyay received his BS in Chemistry and MS in Biochemistry from Calcutta University, India. He obtained Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India in 1989. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Upjohn Company in Michigan. This work was part of an NIH funded collaborative effort involving several academic institutions and pharmaceutical industries for the discovery of potent antiretroviral drugs. Dr. Chattopadhyay's work focussed on the structure-functio...
Elizabeth Sztul obtained a BS in Biology from Brooklyn College, CUNY, studying the ecology of marine arthropods and the renewing nature of the plant meristem. She initiated her graduate studies with a M.Sc. in Plant Physiology from University of Maryland, studying chloroplast biogenesis. She continued her graduate education in Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine, working on membrane trafficking pathways in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner, Dr. George Palade, and was awarded a ...
My work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) encompasses a number of roles and interests. As a Professor of Microbiology, my research interests are directed at deriving a better understanding of the processes and consequences of microbial evolution and how variation of the genomic sequences of microbes impacts that evolution. I am also interested in the role that microbes play in human health and disease. To pursue these interests my lab focuses on bioinformatics analysis – the devel...
Dr. Ubil earned his BS and MS from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. After completing his studies at UMBC, he worked at ThermoFisher for 10 years, during which time he earned his MBA from Johns Hopkins (2007). In 2009, Dr. Ubil pursued his graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he was funded in part by an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. He completed his PhD in 2013, at which point he j...
Dr. Cheng completed his medical education at Hunan Medical University in 1985. Later, he continued his graduate training at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, and Hunan Medical University, where he later became a faculty member. Dr. Cheng served as vice chairman of the Center for Molecular Biology at Hunan Medical University from 1993 to 1996. He completed additional postdoctoral training at the Kimball Research Institute (New York Blood Center) and Emory Un...
Welcome to the Hu Lab!
Meet Hui Hu, Ph.D., an immunologist focusing on transcriptional regulation of adaptive immunity—Tfh cell differentiation, GC responses, CD8+ T cell quiescence/activation, T cell responses, immune memory and vaccines.
Hu joined the Department of Microbiology at UAB in May, 2014. He was an Associate Professor at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia. Before Hu moved to the Wistar Institute, he was an instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard’s Children...
Dr. Hsu, Associate Professor of Medicine, studies the regulation of multiple types of immune cells in both humans and mice. Dr. Hsu has had a long history of interest and experience in studying mechanisms of autoimmune disease. She is the investigator who identified that autoimmune BXD2 mice exhibit unique features, including spontaneous formation of germinal centers, increased expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), increased production of pathogenic autoantibodies that are...
Dr. Jake Y. Chen is the Chief Bioinformatics Officer at UAB Informatics Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he was the founding director of Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in biological data mining and systems biology, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently President-elect of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. He is an el...
Jan Novak is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA. He received BS and MS in Biology from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has been at UAB since 1992. He was appointed to the rank of UAB Distinguished Professor in 2022
Dr. Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke completed an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry at Duke University and her medical degree at East Carolina University prior to matriculating to Johns Hopkins Hospital where she received training in general surgery and ...
I performed my undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at Pennsylvania State University (B.Sc, 2002). For graduate studies I trained with John Kearney, Ph.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL). My thesis research focused on understanding the development of serologic and B cell memory to the T cell independent, type 2 antigen alpha 1->3-dextran. After obtaining my Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology, I took a 4 year hiatus from research to obtain my d...
Jessy Deshane received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics from University of Alabama at Birmingham under the mentorship of Dr. Anupam Agarwal. After completing her post-doctoral training in Immunology with Dr. David Chaplin, in Department of Microbiology, she joined the faculty of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine in 2011 as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Deshane is committed to an academic career combining basic and tr...
Dr. Leavenworth joined UAB Neurosurgery as an Assistant Professor on Oct. 1, 2016. Previously, Dr. Leavenworth was at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University. Dr. Leavenworth completed medical school at Nantong University (NTU) School of Medicine, Nantong, Jiangsu, China. She then finished her PhD training in molecular biology, microbiology and biochemistry with a focus on immunology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She was at Harvard Medical School since 2009 ...
Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D., (Julie) is an investigator whose research is focused on understanding tumor biology with the goal of developing translational targets for pancreatic cancer. Her publications in top-tier journals highlight her work related to the fibrotic and immune tumor microenvironment and metastatic progression of cancer.
Dr. Carstens earned her PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in the laboratory of David Spencer, PhD in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, whe...
immunobiology of microbiota-epithelial interactions and the epigenetics of mucosal cancers
Dr. Willis is a K08 supported physician scientist in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology. The Willis Lung Lab explores the role of commensal fungi and the gut-lung axis in early life.
Dr. Bashir graduated from the University of the Punjab with a B.Sc. in Anatomy and Physiology, and received his MD from the King Edward Medical College in Pakistan. He received his MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. After completing his internship and post-graduate residency training in combined Internal Medicine and Neurology at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, Dr. Bashir joined the Department of Neurology at the ...
Clinical Educator in Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology with a focus in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant is Professor in the Department of Pathology and and the Associate Director of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer at UAB.
Following a Ph.D. in Cancer Immunology at the Cancer Research Institute, University of Bombay (India), Dr. Shevde-Samant completed her postdoctoral training in the area of cancer metastasis at the Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University. She was on the faculty at the University ...
Laurie E. Harrington received her B.S. degree from the University of Vermont in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Immunology from Emory University in 2001. In late 2001, she began her postdoctoral studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, investigating the heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses during autoimmune and protective immune responses. Laurie joined the Department of Cell Biology, now Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, as an Assistant Professor in 2007.
I am a board-certified pathologist with >25-year experience in light-, immunofluorescence-, and high-resolution confocal microscopy. I worked as a staff pathologist at the UAB Hospital for 18 years. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and work on multiple collaborative research projects. I have extensive experience with animal models of bacterial infection and immune-complex deposition diseases, and histopathology of human and mouse tissues.
Lewis Shi received his MD in preventive medicine, MS in toxicology, and PhD in neurotoxicology. Upon graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he identified a novel role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) signaling in innate immune response against Listeria monocytogenes infection. He then joined St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where he was among the first to show that the HIF-1a-glycolysis pathway functions as a metabolic checkpoint in re...
During my career, I have dedicated a significant amount of time to both research and advocacy for the biomedical and biological scientific community. Currently, I am focused on science policy and biomedical education from the undergraduate to graduate level. I am committed to promote sound scientific policies, to support a diverse and inclusive scientific workforce, to support the training and professional development of the next generation of scientists, and to ensure that the scientific commun...
Professional Summary: Dr. Norian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is also jointly affiliated with the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center. Prior to joining UAB in 2015, Dr. Norian performed her graduate work at The University of Iowa in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Koretzky, where she studied T cell signal transduction. She then performed her post-doctoral traini...
Dr. Stoll is a pediatric rheumatologist who earned his MD and PhD at Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, NY) in 2001, followed by completion of residency in pediatrics at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 2004 and fellowship in pediatric rheumatology at the Childrens Hospital Boston in 2007. At the completion of his fellowship, he took a staff position at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX), where he earned an MSCS degree. In 2011, he moved to the Univers...
I have been an assistant professor in Microbiology at UAB since January of 2016. My interests are focused on the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria sense and respond to changes in their environments. My lab is currently exploring how bacteria regulate inorganic polyphosphate synthesis in response to starvation and how pro-inflammatory enterobacteria use the RclA, RclB, and RclC proteins to resist antimicrobial oxidants used by the innate immune system to kill bacteria during inflammation.
One of the most prominent features of M. tuberculosis is its unusual outer membrane that plays a crucial role in the intrinsic drug resistance and in survival of M. tuberculosis in vivo. This membrane is functionalized by intriguing proteins which provide essential functions such as nutrient uptake, have new structures and likely function by novel mechanisms. We discovered the first outer membrane channel protein in mycobacteria, obtained the first crystal structure of a mycobacterial outer memb...
Dr. Ismail is a clinician-researcher who focuses on delivering comprehensive and optimal care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He completed his training in one of the largest inflammatory bowel disease centers in the United States (The Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at The Johns Hopkins University). He is comfortable in treating complex and medically refractory patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He is experienced in managing biologics and emerging therapies. Dr. ...
Nicholas (Nick) Lennemann received his BS in Biotechnology from Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN. He then obtained his PhD in Microbiology under the supervision of Dr. Wendy Maury at University of Iowa, where he worked on the biochemical characterization of the flavivirus glycoprotein. He performed his postdoctoral research with Dr. Carolyn Coyne at University of Pittsburgh. During his postdoctoral research he focused on virus-host interactions, with an emphasis on the cell biology ...
Our laboratory concentrates on understanding the immune correlates of protection against HIV disease progression with a focus on cell medicated immune responses (CD4 and CD8 T cells). We are utilizing a variety of techniques in our laboratory to evaluate the quality of HIV-specific T cell responses observed in patients who represent the entire spectra of HIV disease. These assays include an in vitro HIV killing and an in vitro HIV viral suppression assay. These assays measure the actual clearanc...
Dr. Wang is originally from China, and received his undergraduate education at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (BS and B.Eng.) and graduate education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (MS) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD). At UW-Madison, Dr. Wang focused on studying kinetic protonation of enols, a classical physical organic chemistry topic, under the supervision of Professor Howard E. Zimmerman. He then joined Professor David Y. Gin at the University of Illinois-Urbana ...
Host-microbiota interactions in health and inflammatory diseases
Dr. Ragib Hasan is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He leads the SECuRE and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab). He is also the founder of Shikkhok.com — an award-winning free education platform in Bengali language, and the co-ordinator of the BanglaBraille project, aimed at creating educational material for visually impaired children in South Asia.
He is recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for his research o...
Rakesh Patel PhD is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology, and Director of the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology. He is a graduate of the University of Essex, England (BSc with Hons (1993) and PhD in Biochemistry (1996)) and moved to UAB in 1997. He is also director of the UAB Translational and Molecular sciences Certificate and T32 Program (for Predocs), and past Director of the Department of Pathology Graduate Program (7y), UAB Pathobiology and Molecular Medici...
Dr. Cron began his research training at the NIH (as a HHMI scholar) and continued with a PhD in Immunology following my mentor, Dr. Jeff Bluestone, to the University of Chicago, where Dr. Cron characterized murine peripheral TCRgd T cell repertoire, phenotype, and effector function. He completed medical school at UCLA and did a Pediatrics residency at Stanford where he gained an interest in Rheumatology. This was followed by a fellowship at the University of Washington in Pediatric Rheumatology....
Robert P. Kimberly, MD, a native of New Haven, Conn., received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School after receiving a baccalaureate degree magna cum laude from Princeton University and a baccalaureate / master's degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Dr. Kimberly's achievements and honors include election to Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, a "First" class degree from Oxford, and election to both the America...
Selene Meza-Perez, Ph.D., is an Instructor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. She received her B.S. in Biology from the National Autonoma University of Mexico (UNAM) and her masters and Ph.D. degree in Immunology at the National Polytechnique Institute (IPN) in Mexico in 2010, where her thesis theme was dedicated to study the role of intestinal dendritic cells immune response against bacterial and viral infections.
In February 2011, she joined the labo...
Seth Landefeld is Chair, Department of Medicine and the Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership.
Dr. Landefeld brings to UAB an infectious enthusiasm for all the wonderful opportunities in academic medicine – to care for people, to teach, to discover, and to build a healthy society. Recognizing the UAB Department of Medicine as a well established national leader, he envisions the Department as the go-to department in the United States for faculty, learners, and staff who have the am...
I have a broad background in microbiology, immunology, and medicine with residency training in clinical pathology and fellowship training in medical microbiology. I am the Director of the UAB Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Fungal Reference Lab, and UAB’s High Containment Research Facility (SEBLAB) with significant expertise in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, medical mycology, and SARS-CoV-2 biology. My research interests are 4-fold and include 1. Expert laboratory support for a variety ...
Dr. Sabbaj’s research interests are mainly focused on the study of HIV-specific T cells from peripheral blood and different mucosal compartments and their role in the pathogenesis of HIV-infection. She has studied T cells isolated from peripheral blood, breast milk and more recently menstrual blood in order to understand how these cells control infection. She has extensive experience and expertise in isolating and characterizing T cells from multiple cell sources from both HIV infected and HIV...
Dr. Duncan is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Washington (Seattle) and served as a Medical Intern and Resident there. His subsequent clinical and research training fellowships were at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and The Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Duncan has had prior faculty appointments at Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh.
The overall theme of Dr. Mitchell’s research has been to study disorders that affect the kidney and to identify potential ways to improve the health and quality of life of individuals with kidney disease. She has a broad background as well as specific training and expertise in mitochondrial function and oxidative stress. Dr. Mitchell’s current research investigates the role of diet on immune cell mitochondria and oxidative stress in kidney stone disease using human dietary feeding studies, anima...
Dr. Etty (Tika) Benveniste was the Founding Chair of the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (2012-2017). Benveniste served as Chair of the Department of Cell Biology (2000-2011). Benveniste also holds the Alma B. Maxwell-University of Alabama Health Services Foundation (UAHSF), Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research. In January 2015, Benveniste was appointed interim Senior Associate Dean for Research Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of M...
My lab aims to understand the structure-function relationships involved in the processes of viral replication, virus-host interactions, capsid structure, polynucleotide synthesis and antibody-antigen complex formation. Toward this goal, we have used structural techniques (cryo-electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography and small angle x-ray scattering) and biochemistry to study: viral proteins from negative strand RNA viruses (NSV: influenza A, mumps, rabies virus, VSV), retroviruses (HIV), coro...
Dr. Geisler is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and completed his doctor of medicine degree at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. He later earned a master of public health degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle. Following an internal medicine internship and residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Dr. Geisler served a fellowship at the Division of...
Dr. Yang received her M.D. degree and PhD degree in China. She completed postdoctoral training and was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Yang joined the faculty of Department of Pathology at UAB in 2006. She is currently an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology.
