Next Week's DSS - Dr. Mark Bevensee

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will feature Dr. Mark O. Bevensee, associate professor of cell, developmental and integrative biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The lecture will take place Feb. 7, 2013, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.

Dr. Bevensee’s research focuses on the cellular and molecular physiology of intracellular pH (pHi) regulation and acid-base transport in tissues such as the brain, heart and kidney.

Dr. Bevensee received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the laboratory of Dr. Walter F. Boron in the cellular and molecular physiology department at Yale University. His postdoctoral work was also done at Yale under the direction of Dr. Boron. Dr. Bevensee joined the faculty at UAB in 2000.

Dr. Bevensee is a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the Society for Neuroscience.

To learn more about Dr. Bevensee’s research, click here.