In a November 18, 2014, article in GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), Susanna F. Greer, Ph.D., says microbiology professor Louis Justement, Ph.D., changed her life.

As an undergraduate chemistry major in the 1990s, Greer spent a summer doing biomedical research in Justement’s lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. This initial encounter led Greer to choose a career in research. She is currently associate professor of biology at Georgia State University, specializing in transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of immune response and cancer immunology.

Justement, who chairs the Training and Career Opportunities Subcommittee of the Federation for American Societies for Experimental Biology, continues to change the lives of students here at UAB.

Read Susanna Greer’s thoughts about mentoring in “Making Mentoring Meaningful.”