Department faculty contribute to the education of graduate students by participating as course directors, instructors, mentors and hosts of journal clubs. The department’s efforts are led by Laura Timares, Ph.D., Hui Xu, Ph.D., and Nabiha Yusuf, Ph.D. Over the past five years department faculty have averaged 148 didactic credit hours. Seventeen graduate students have been mentored during this time. Laura Timares, Ph.D. developed an advanced level graduate course on dendritic cells and has served as course director for CMB 778 Dendritic Cell Biology. Nabiha Yusuf, Ph.D. is currently course director and instructor for Cancer Immunology Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) course 774, cancer biology theme.
Graduate Program Courses
IBS 107, Module 3 Pathology
“Skin Structure, function & development/Cutanteous pathology and therapies”
Tox 711, Principals of Toxicology, Pharmacology and Toxicology
“Skin Structure, function & development”
“Cutanteous toxicology and carcinogenesis”
CMB Innate Immunity, Cell Biology
“Dendritic cells in innate immunity”
MIC 700 Microbiology, The Advanced Course on Autoimmunity
“Dendritic cells and antigen presentation”
GBS740 Introduction to Immunology
“Dendritic Cells”
GBS 752 Immune System Block
“Dendritic Cells, Immunophysiology of Skin”
GBS 774 Cancer Immunology - Tumor Block
"Dendritic Cells"
GBS 774 Cancer Immunology - Tumor Block
"Cancer Immunotherapy"
Mentoring
Cancer Research Program (CaRES) for entering or first year medical students
2007, 2008, 2009 Kyle Rudemiller
2009 Josna Haritha, Sam Gentle
2010 Jeffery Singer (MSTP)
2011 Tyler Clement
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program Rotations
2007 Maureen Cox, George Twitty
2008 Hao Li
2010 Tyrel T Smith
Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program Rotation
2007 Colleen Martin
Medical Scientist Training Program Rotation
2010 Jeff Singer
Summer in Biomedical Sciences (SIBS) Undergraduate Research Program
2007 Angela Wallace – 2nd Place Award
– UAB Summer Intern Research Poster Session
UAB Dermatology Training Grant Mentor
2007 Erin Thacker, Ph.D. (Division of Human Gene Therapy Fellow)
2008 Kevin Boyd, M.D. (Dermatology Resident)
2009 Aton Holzer, M.D. (Dermatology Resident)
UAB Clinical And Translational Science Training Program (CCTS)
2009, Yuko Tsruta, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate student advisory and collaborations
2009 Matthew Beatty (CD25-Targeted Adenovirus Vector), Division of Human Gene Therapy
Medical student independent research
2009- 2011 Kyle Rudemiller
2011- 2012 Tarannum Jaleel
Junior Faculty Grant Writing (*, awarded)
2007 Sonia Lynn Heath, MD. UAB Dept Medicine-Infectious Diseases. NIH K01*
2007 S.R. Donapaty, DVM, MS, PhD Tuskeegee University. U54 Tuskegee/Morehouse/UABCCC partnership.
2007-8 Reinhard Waehler, PhD. UAB Center for Gene Therapy. Melanoma Research Foundation, SDRC P&F*.
2008 Erin Thacker, Ph.D. UAB Center for Gene Therapy. NIH R01, multiple foundation grants.
2008 Qiana Mathews, Ph.D. UAB Center for Gene Therapy. NIH K22, R33*,R01*
2011 Jessy Deshane, Ph.D. UAB Pulmonary, SDRC P&F*
Collaborative Grant Writing with UAB faculty (*, awarded)
2008 – 2010, David Curiel, UAB Gene Therapy
2010 Athar Mohammad, Ph.D. UAB Dermatology, R01*
2010 Craig Elmets, M.D. UAB Dermatology, VA merit Award*
2011 Dan Bullard, Ph.D. UAB Genetics, DOD Award
2011 Helen Kim, Ph.D. UAB Biochemistry, DOD Discovery Award, pending
2011 Craig Elmets, M.D., UAB Dermatology, RO1, pending submission
Dissertation/Thesis Committee Member
2007 Warren Denning–Mentor: Zdenek Hel, Ph.D., Department of Pathology (Ph.D.)*
2007 Jen-Feng Lai–Mentor: David Chaplin, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology (Ph.D.) *
2007 Cara Davis–Mentor Jack Lemons, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering (M.S.)*
2009 Wen-I Yeh –Mentor Laurie Harrington, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology (Ph.D.)
* Dissertation or thesis defended and degree awarded.
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