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Dr. Shannon Meier - PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Sciences
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| Office Hours: | Cochran M 3:00-5:00 W 10:30-12:30 WR T 12:30-2:30 R 10:30- 12:30 |
| Courses: | BIOL1001 BIOL2252 BIOL2251 SCIE4200 |
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| Education: | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, August 2015-May 2021 |
| Awards and Honors: | 2018-2020 CMDB T32 Grant Award May-August 2014 Research Internship, Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Massachusetts |
| Publications: | • Meier S.E., O’Neil S. Flexing your muscle memory! Use of therapeutic exercises to teach skeletal muscle anatomy. Poster presentation at Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons Conference, 2025 • Weeks, S.E., Metge, B.J., Samant, R.S. Understanding the role of Wnt signaling-driven nucleolar dynamics in breast cancer progression. Presented at ASBMB Emerging Roles of the Nucleolus Meeting, October 2019 • Shannon E. Weeks, Sarah C. Kammerud, Brandon J. Metge, Heba A. AlSheikh, David A. Schneider, Dongquan Chen, Shi Wei, James A. Mobley, Akinyemi I. Ojesina, Lalita A. Shevde, and Rajeev S. Samant. A novel role of β-catenin signaling in modulating nucleolar functions in triple negative breast cancer. Cell Death and Disease (2021) • Weeks, S.E., Metge, B.J., Samant, R.S. “The Nucleolus: A central response hub for the stressors that drive cancer progression” Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2019) 76:4511–4524 • Weeks, S.E. and Samant RS; Isolation of Nucleoli for Characterization of Nucleolar Contents to Uncover Clues to Metastatic Progression" Methods Molecular Biology, Vol. 2294, UlrikeS. Stein (Eds): Metastasis, 978-1-0716-1349-8, 485517_1_En, (Chapter 19) • Weeks, S.E., Bawage, S.S., Shevde, L. A., Samant, R.S. “DNAJB6” Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules, 2nd Edition, edited by Sangdun Choi for Springer Life Sciences. Accepted for publication, October 24, 2016 • Sarah C Kammerud, Brandon J Metge, Amr R Elhamamsy, Shannon E. Weeks, Heba A Alsheikh, Alexa L Mattheyses, Lalita A Shevde, Rajeev S Samant. Novel role of the dietary flavonoid fisetin in suppressing rRNA biogenesis. Lab Investigations (2021) • Tshering D. Lama-Sherpa, Victor T.G. Lin, Brandon J. Metge, Shannon E. Weeks, Dongquan Chen, Rajeev S. Samant, and Lalita A. Shevde. Hedgehog signaling enables repair of ribosomal DNA double-strand breaks. Nucleic Acid Research (2020) • Hawley Pruitt, Brandon Metge, Shannon E. Weeks, Dongquan Chen, Shi Wei, Robert Kesterson, Lalita Shevde and Rajeev S. Samant. Cancer Research. (2017) Conditional knockout of N-Myc and STAT Interactor Disrupts Normal Mammary Development and Enhances Metastatic Ability of Mammary Tumors” • Bawage, S.S., Weeks, S.E., Shevde, L. A., Samant, R.S. “Osteopontin” Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules, 2nd Edition, edited by Sangdun Choi for Springer Life Sciences. Accepted for publication, October 24, 2016. |
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