The Team


Anna E. Thalacker-Mercer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), UAHSF Endowed Professor of Regenerative and Translational Medicine, and Associate Director of the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine. Dr. Thalacker-Mercer received her doctorate degree through the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University where she developed a strong background in geriatric nutrition and the mechanisms underlying aging skeletal muscle. She continued her research training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the UAB Center for Aging Translational Research Program, the Center for Exercise Medicine, and the NIH funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center. Her research program at UAB is currently focused on identifying and understanding nutrient and metabolic determinants of skeletal muscle regeneration and deterioration that occur with advancing age and disease. 

Angad Yadav, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow UAB

Wenxia Ma, M.S., Scientist I

Ryan Dannemiller, Graduate Student, Graduate of Biomedical Sciences, UAB

Susan Ruby, Graduate Student, Graduate of Biomedical Sciences, UAB

Thalacker-Mercer Alumni

Jamie Blum, Ph.D. Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University in 2021