After graduating from Auburn University
with a BS in Zoology/Pre-Veterinary medicine, Anita
Pinner followed her love of biology to work in the field
for The Nature Conservancy.
She later worked
in a wet lab as a chemical analyst for several years
before coming to work at UAB in research.
Her experience at UAB began in the
Molecular & Cellular division of the
Department of
Pathology , where she used Blue Native-PAGE as a
novel proteomic application to study oxidative stress in
heart & liver mitochondria.
She then moved into the
School
of Public Health
to work in the department of
Environmental
Health Sciences, continuing the use of BN PAGE and
other proteomic methods to study liver mitochondrial
dysfunction caused by chronic ethanol consumption.
Later she worked in the proteomics core of the
Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction in Cancer
Prevention (CNGI),
where she used 2D-IEF-SDS-PAGE to look at anti-oxidant
effects of polyphenols in the diet.
She joined Dr. Meador-Woodruff lab
in April 2009, where she currently directly assists one
of his Assistant Professors, Dr. Monsheel Sodhi, in her pursuit of genetic predictors
of suicide by looking at RNA editing in psychiatric
disorders.
email: apinner@uab.edu
