The
Principal
Investigator
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel
- Claude Bernard
Education
Post-Doc, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Department of Structural Biology (2016)
PHD, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2013)
MS, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2011)
BS, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2008)
Teaching
Biochemistry 1
Biochemistry 2
Topics in Biochemistry
Biochemical Techniques
Experience
Biochemistry
Biophysics
Enzymology
Structural Biology
Molecular Dynamics
The Graduate Students
Areas of expertise:
ligand binding thermodynamics
kinetic experimental strategies
pre-steady state kinetic studies
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
- Archibald Hill
Presenting the latest data from the lab to a judge at the 2019 Southeast Enzymes Conference.
Departmental Award for Outstanding Research Work
Michael J. Swaenepoel
Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. student
Areas of expertise:
Protein Thermodynamics
Cancer Biology
Microbial Assembly
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein
Joshua A. Couch
Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. student
Areas of expertise:
Biochemistry
