The group gets new funding for the collaborative project, “Microbial Biofilms as Regulators of Psychostimulant Abuse!”

Congratulations Camila! Camila, a postdoctoral fellow in the Carter Lab, received an Underrepresented in STEM Award to travel to the Gordon Research Conference on Membrane Transport Proteins and present her work, “Bacterial Biofilms as Key Participants in Amphetamine Use Disorder.”

Congratulations El! Eleanor Ellsworth, an undergraduate in the Summer in Biomedical Science Undergraduate Research Program placed second in the Three Minute Thesis competition for her presentation entitled, “Drugs & Bugs: How Amphetamines Alter the Garden in Our Gut.”

Thank you to the UAB Graduate Student Government for selecting Nghi, a third year GBS graduate student, for a summer Professional Development and Travel Award! Congratulations Nghi!!!

Nghi is a third year student in the Graduate in Biomedical Sciences program. She will be working on engineering genes for regulated induction of apoptosis specifically in cancer cells. Welcome Nghi!

2024 NIDA Cutting Edge Basic Research Award! This award will fund work uncovering the mechanisms behind how microbes form biofilms that alter population abundance and production of metabolites that directly regulate proteins governing dopamine signaling and responses to amphetamines.

Stu is joining us as a Researcher III and will be working to engineer bacteria to produce enzymes for the degradation of insulin. Welcome Stu!!!

Our newest lab member is Huong Tran. She is enrolled in the Master’s in Biotechnology program and will be working to engineer bacteria to produce enzymes for the degradation of serotonin. Welcome Huong!!!

https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/2961-announcing-the-2024-pittman-scholars