Personnel

Stephen Barnes, PhD Stephen Barnes, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Director, UAB Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction
Associate Director, Purdue-UAB Botanicals Centers for Age-Related Disease
Director, Mass Spectrometry Shared Facility, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Senior Scientist, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tel: 205-934-7117
E-mail: sbarnes@uab.edu
Current Students
Miranda Collier Miranda Collier
Honors student in Chemistry – studying zebra fish lens proteins
Tel: (205) 934-2338
E-mail: mirandac@uab.edu
Adrienne Davis Adrienne Davis
Honors student – studying the molecular forms of bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase in the rat
Tel: (205) 934-2338
E-mail: adie2010@uab.edu
Kyle A Floyd Kyle A Floyd
Research Assistant
Master's Degree – lens crystallins in the rat by imaging mass spectrometry
Tel: (205) 934-2338
E-mail: kafloyd@uab.edu
  Tyler Stewart
1st year Graduate Student – structure of human bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase
E-mail: stewartt@uab.edu
 
Former Graduate Students
  • Anning Lin, PhD (1990) - "Human platelet inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase: Purification, characterization and regulation." After postdoctoral fellowship training in Dr. Michael Karin's lab in the Department of Pharmacology at UCSD, he returned to UAB as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Molecular Pathology in the Department of Pathology. He subsequently moved to the Ben May Cancer Center at the University of Chicago in 1998 and in 2006 was promoted to Full Professor. He is also Director of the Signal Transduction Institute, Shanghai, China.

  • Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, PhD (1992) - "Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding the phenol sulfating form of human phenol sulfotransferase." She is currently Associate Professor, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Samford University

  • T. Greg Peterson, PhD, JD (1995) - "Genistein and breast cancer: biochemical rationale for its preventive as opposed to its therapeutic role." He graduated from the Law School at the University of Virginia in 1999 and is a patent attorney at a Birmingham-based law firm.

  • James Wheeler, PhD (1997) - "Purification and characterization of rat liver bile acid Coenzyme A ligase." He did a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Gungerich’s lab at Vanderbilt University and was a recipient of a NRSA fellowship. He currently. works for Alcon Labs in Fort Worth, TX.

  • Brenda Boersma, PhD (2002) - "Interactions between isoflavones and proinflammatory oxidants." - currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

  • Mindan Sfakianos, PhD (2003) - "Mutation of critical residues of bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase." - She did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven CT. She currently works at Genentech in San Francisco.

  • Amanda Isom, PhD (posthumous in 2005) - "Mass spectrometry of protein-lipid aldehyde adducts" (Amanda was killed in road accident in April, 2005)

  • Erin Shonsey, PhD (2008) - "Structural and functional studies of human bile acid CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase (hBAT)". She is a scientist in the Alabama Department of Forensic Science.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UAB

  • Tracy Lyn D'Alessandro (2008) - "Pharmacology of chlorinated isoflavones"
    She currently works at Alabama Department of Forensic Science

  • David R Stella (2010) - "Lens Cataract: Biochemical Analysis of the Alpha Crystallins"
    He currently works at Alabama Department of Forensic Science
Former Lab Member
  • Antonio Piras (2007-2009) Visiting Scientist
  • Elizabeth A Gulsby Lab Technician