Adrie JC Steyn, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Microbiology from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He completed his thesis in the lab of Professor Julius Marmur at the Department of Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 1995. Dr. Steyn subsequently conducted postdoctoral research as a Howard Hughes Fellow in the lab of Dr. Barry Bloom at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1999 he moved with Dr. Bloom to the Harvard School of Public Health where he became a research associate and eventually research scientist. He joined the Department of Microbiology at UAB as an Assistant Professor in July 2003.
