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Dr. Shannon Meier
Assistant Professor
Credentials: PhD
| Office Hours: | Cochran M 3:00-5:00 W 10:30-12:30 WR T 12:30-2:30 R 10:30- 12:30 |
| Locations: (Campus & Office) |
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| Teaching and Research Interests: | Anatomy Yoga: Evaluating the impact of functional movements on comprehension and retention of skeletal muscle anatomy. Effects of Mogroside on Caenorhabditis elegans healthspan and lifespan via microbe-mediated mechanisms |
| Courses: | BIOL1001 BIOL2252 BIOL2251 SCIE4200 |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, August 2015-May 2021 Eckerd College, Bachelor of Science in Biology, GPA 3.5, August 2011-May 2015 |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | • 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 |
| 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 |
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