Drs. Peter Prevelige (20 years) and Janet Yother (25 years) are among the more than 1,000 UAB employees to be honored during the annual Service Awards Program at the DoubleTree Hotel Heritage Banquet room on March 4.


Drs. Peter Prevelige (20 years) and Janet Yother (25 years) are among the more than 1,000 UAB employees to be honored during the annual Service Awards Program at the DoubleTree Hotel Heritage Banquet room on March 4.

Prevelige came to UAB in 1995 from Boston Biomedical Research Institute where he served as Staff Scientist. His work at UAB focuses on the virus assembly of Salmonella typhimurium bacteriophage P22 and HIV. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, he studied histone structure with Dr. G.D. Fasman at Brandeis University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1985. His postdoctoral work, on virus capsid assembly, was done at MIT under the direction of Dr. J. King.


Yother joined the UAB faculty in 1991. Her work focuses on the genetics of capsule expression, the biochemical mechanisms of capsule synthesis, and the virulence properties associated with capsule production. In 1980, after receiving her Bachelor of Science degree at UAB, she studied the genetics of Yersinia pestis virulence determinants at UAB and the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences at Memphis. She received her Ph.D. in 1985 and returned to UAB for postdoctoral studies concerning the genetics of Streptococcus pneumoniae.