Research Faculty | Clinical Faculty | Clinical Lab Faculty | Core Lab Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Emeritus Faculty
Research Faculty
Anindya Dutta, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics
Professor
Areas of Interest
Bioinformatics and Genomics, Biotechnology, Cancer Biology, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology
Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of Interest
Systems biology, data mining, advanced visual analytics for complex human disease applications.
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Genomics, Bioinformatics, Structural variations, Genomic algorithms
Wioletta Czaja, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Cancer molecular biology and epigenetics, DNA repair and genome stability, inflammation, immune dysfunction, epigenetic drug targets, precision oncology
John Hartman, M.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Yeast phenomic analysis for modeling genetic networks that buffer disease
Chen Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Precision Oncology
Andre Leier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Computational Biomedicine, Disease Modelling, Membrane Biophysics, Bioinformatics
Runhua (Runa) Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Cancer genetics
Tatiana Marquez-Lago, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Host-microbiota interactions, antimicrobial resistance, chromatin conformation and gene expression (interdisciplinary research involving ‘wet’ experimental and ‘dry’ mathematical and computational work).
Deeann Wallis-Schultz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Neurofibromatosis drug discovery
Lizhong Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Molecular genetics
Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Genomics, computational biology, data sciences, molecular diagnostics, rare disease, undiagnosed disease, molecular modifiers, precision medicine
Jia Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Cancer Cell Signaling, Cancer Metastasis, Therapy Resistance, Drug Development, Gene Therapy
Clinical Faculty
Ali Al-Beshri, MBBS
Assistant Professor
S. Joy Dean, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Anna Chesson Edens Hurst, M.D.
Program Director, Medical Genetics Residency Program
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Clinical genetics, dysmorphology, Undiagnosed Disease Program
Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Genomic Medicine and Chief Genomics Officer
Professor
Areas of Interest
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Nathaniel H. Robin, M.D.
Director, Clinical Services
Professor
Areas of Interest
Clinical Genetics (Craniofacial Genetics)
Clinical Lab Faculty
Andrew J. Carroll, Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of Interest
Cancer cytogenetics, chromosome polymorphisms, clinical cytogenetics
Yulong Fu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Medical Genomics Lab
Fady Mikhail, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of Interest
Clinical cytogenetics; cancer cytogenetics; FISH; array CGH
Jon Daniel Sharer, Ph.D.
Professor
Interim Director, Research
Areas of Interest
Biochemical genetics
Core Lab Faculty
David Crossman, Ph.D.
Professor
Areas of Interest
Servicing the UAB community in their Big Data analytical needs
Michael Crowley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Adjunct Faculty
McDonald, Merry-Lynn, Ph.D.
Katsuri Mitra, Ph.D.