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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)
Syllabi:
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
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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