Next Week's DSS - Dr. Joseph Brewer

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Joseph W. Brewer, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

The lecture will take place May 5, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium.

The goal of Dr. Brewer’s research program is to delineate the molecular mechanisms that regulate homeostasis of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in mammalian cells.

Dr. Brewer received his Ph.D. in immunology from Duke University and carried out his postdoctoral studies at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

For more information on Dr. Brewer’s research, visit http://www.southalabama.edu/microbiology/brewer.html. To learn more about the seminar, call Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.