Micah Simmons

Research Assistant. University of Alabama at Birmingham.

I Micah Simmons received his BS in Fishery Science from Auburn University, and continued on to get a MS in Molecular Biology from Auburn University.  He then worked for the USDA Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory where he studied bacteriological, parasitological, nutritional and immunological problems in aquaculture.  He relocated to Birmingham, Al in June of 2005 and began working at UAB in the School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology.  While he was in the Department of Epidemiology he worked on the PAARTNERS project and also studied Alzheimer's using genetic linkage and SNP genotyping. 

He left the Department of Epidemiology in May of 2007 to take a position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology in Dr. Meador-Woodruff’s lab.  He continues to work in the JMW lab where he has worked under Dr. Rob McCullumsmith making in situ probes for studying myelin genes in post modem brains.  He has also assisted Dr. Monsheel Sodhi in studying cell-specific reductions in glutamatergic transcripts in the medial dorsal region of the thalamus in schizophrenia.  He currently assists Dr. Janusz Tucholski, in his pursuit of understanding glycosylation of AMPA and NMDA receptors in Schizophrenia.

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email:msimmons@uab.edu