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  • Beatriz Leon-Ruiz
  • Todd Green
  • Jeremy Foote
  • Hubert Tse
  • Jamil Saad
  • Rodney King
  • David Briles
  • Nicholas Lennemann
  • Jiri Mestecky
  • Michael Niederweis
  • Terje Dokland
  • Frances Lund
  • Heather Bruns
  • Michael Gray
  • Jessica Scoffield
  • Louis Justement
  • Janet Yother
  • Amy Weinmann
  • Carlos J Orihuela
  • Beatriz Leon-Ruiz

    Award of Tenure in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Todd Green

    Award of Tenurue in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Jeremy Foote

    Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Hubert Tse

    Promoted to Professor in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Jamil Saad

    Promoted to Professor in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Rodney King

    Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • David Briles

    Retiring from UAB, after 43 dedicated years.

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  • Nicholas Lennemann

    Joined UAB Department of Microbiology faculty in 2020.

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  • Jiri Mestecky

    The Kutteh family made a generous commitment to establish an endowed faculty scholar fund as an initial step toward establishing the Dr. Jiri Mestecky Endowed Chair in the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Michael Niederweis

    Winner of the School of Medicine Featured Discovery for the paper “Pore-forming Esx proteins mediate toxin secretion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.”

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  • Terje Dokland

    Established an Macromolecular Structure Institutional Research Core Program at UAB.

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  • Frances Lund

    Founding Director for The Immunology Institute at UAB.
    Senior faculty winner of the 2020 Dean’s Excellence Award in Research.

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  • Heather Bruns

    Appointed as the Department of Microbiology's first Vice-Chair for Education.

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  • Michael Gray

    Named UAB School of Medicine Equity Advisor for the Department of Microbiology.

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  • Jessica Scoffield

    Named 2022 class of James A. Pittman Jr., M.D., Scholar in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.
    Named UAB School of Medicine Wellness Champion for the Department of Microbiology.
    First recipient of the 2020 AADR Proctoor & Gamble Underrepresented Faculty & Research Fellowship.

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  • Louis Justement

    Annouced as President-Elect for the Society for Leukocyte Biology.
    Served as 2020 FASEB President.

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  • Janet Yother

    Received 2020 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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  • Amy Weinmann

    Awarded the 2020 Becky Trigg Outstanding UAB Faculty Member.

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  • Carlos J Orihuela

    Named Director of the University Wide Microbiome Center at UAB.
    Selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Society of Microbiology for the years 2020-2022.
    Elected as a 2021 fellow for the American Academy of Microbiology.

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