Principal Investigator
Jamil S. Saad, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UMBC, 2002-2007
Ph.D. – Emory University, 1998-2002
M.Sc. – Chemistry Department– Bergen University, Norway, 1996-1998
B.S. – Chemistry Department – Birzeit University, Palestine, 1992-1996
Graduate Students
Dominik Herrmann
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2019-present)
B.S. – Biology – Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 2017
Shane Rich-New
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2021-present)
B.S. – Biochemistry, Texas State University, TX, 2020
Research Staff Members
Ruba H. Ghanam
Researcher V (2008-present)
B.Sc. – Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2003
Alexandra B. Samal
Researcher V (2015-present)
Ph.D. – Biophysics, Institute of Photobiology, Belarus Academy of Science, Minsk, Belarus, 1984.
B.Sc./M.Sc. – Physics, The Belarussian State University, Minsk, Belarus, 1974
Postdoctoral Fellowship
– Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 2010-2007
– Center for Biophysical Sciences & Engineering, Birmingham, Alabama, 2004-2010
Gunnar N. Eastep
Researcher Assistant (2020-present)
B.S. – Chemistry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2019
Undergraduate Students
Lynne Zhou
Undergraduate Researcher (2020-present)
B.S. – Chemistry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2019-present
