Hosts Amanda Williams and Vishak Vikranth interview Dr. Melanie Higgins, an assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her research focuses on understanding bacterial processes to improve human health, specifically the mechanisms by which commensal bacteria interact with host glycans in the gastrointestinal tract and how natural products are biologically synthesized by determining the structure-function relationships of the individual biosynthetic enzymes.

Dr. Higgins joined the University of Alabama in August of 2021. She received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2012 from the University of Victoria in Canada and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide in Australia from 2013-2014 and at the University of British Columba in Canada from 2015-2021.

You can find out more about her research at https://mhigginslab.wordpress.com/about/.

Jenna Anger and Alex Benoit are here discussing some psychology topics useful knowledge on research, to help you find your interest at UA! Today we are discussing research with Miss Kyrsten Hill, a PhD student at the University of Alabama, having a focus on Geropsychology. Kyrsten has a BA in clinical psychology, and found her place here at you a further her education, and passion for working with older adults and mental issues. Other than just discussing her research, she adds in some tips and tricks for students interested in doing research, by finding your passion and taking every opportunity available. Tune in to see what actual students are doing here at UA, the impact they are making for the future, and the skills and passion that one can develop from research!

Hosts Ben Mathis and Alex Meyer sit down with Dr. Drake Lavender, professor of family, internal, and rural medicine and director of Rural Programs at the University of Alabama. In this episode, we discuss the intricacies of rural and family medicine and dive into the research being done at the University pertaining to rural health.

Hosts: Rolland Grady and Charlotte Greenwood

Guest: Dr. Stanislava Chtarbanova-Rudlof

Dr. Stan has her P.h.D in Cell and Molecular biology from the University of Strasbourg and has done some of her postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her lab is interested in studying the molecular mechanisms and cellular pathways that underlie brain immune reactions and age-dependent changes of immunity using the fruit fly Drosophila as an experimental model.

Chatting with Cybercriminology professor Dr. Chua.

Hosts Helen Hoye and Kaiah Johnson catch up with Dr. Timothy Snowden! Dr. Snowden is a professor at the University of Alabama in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. He does research in medicinal chemistry and organic synthesis. Learn more about his research on his website: https://www.snowdengroup.org

Hosts, Reed Fowler and Kyler Durrence, interview Dr. Arial Shogren on her research in ecology, biogeochemistry, and hydrology that focuses on waterway signaling. We wanted to deepen our audiences’ sense of climate change on our current landscape through freshwater. Check out her twitter @DrArialShogren and her website https://sites.google.com/view/shogrenscience/