University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL·Public·Medical school
5 labs on PI Pages. It spends $70M a year on research and awards 53 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 15,943: 10,053 undergraduates, 5,890 graduate
- Postdocs
- 18
- Faculty
- 802 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Allyson Shea
Microbiology & Immunology
Test whether bacterial urinary tract infection triggers amyloid-beta to accumulate in the kidney, and whether this tracks with bacterial burden, using a mouse UTI model.
Arik Wilbert
Mathematics & Statistics
Study the geometric, topological and combinatorial properties of Springer fibers, shapes from Lie theory tied to representations of Weyl groups, and of their generalizations.
Timothy Casselli
Microbiology & Immunology
Determine whether the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, the cell layer separating blood from the fluid around the brain, is where Borrelia burgdorferi and immune cells enter the central nervous system in infected mice.
Jamie Meegan
Physiology·Early-career
Test whether cell-free hemoglobin released from fragile red blood cells during sepsis disrupts the lung microvascular endothelial cell barrier by oxidizing low-density lipoprotein to oxidized LDL.
Meghan Hermance
Microbiology & Immunology
Characterize how severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) infects, spreads within and survives molting in Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks, including which tick cell types it infects across life stages.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.