Graduate Research Mentors

Graduate Research Mentors

 

A list of faculty across the University of Delaware who can act in a mentorship role for graduate students.

Faculty Name Email Address Brief Research Descriptions
Behnam Abasht abasht@udel.edu General research area: avian genomics, and genetics of muscle diseases in chickens
Robert Akins rakins@nemours.org Cardiac tissue engineering and nerve/muscle interactions
Sonali Barwe sonali.barwe@nemours.org Cancer drug resistance
Mona Batish batish@udel.edu Single molecule RNA imaging of novel cancer biomarkers
​Jeremy Bird ​jgbird@udel.edu ​Mechanism of transcription, metabolism, epitranscriptomics, RNA capping
Esther Biswas-Fiss ebiswas@udel.edu Biomolecular analysis of inherited visual disease; HPV oncogenesis
E. Fidelma Boyd fboyd@udel.edu Bacterial evolution and pathogenesis
​Bruce Boman ​brucemboman@gmail.com ​Cancer Stem Cells
Matthew Butchbach butchbach@nemoursresearch.org Spinal muscular atrophy pathogenesis
Jeffrey Caplan jcaplan@udel.edu Programmed cell death in plant innate immunity
Clara Chan cschan@udel.edu Iron metabolizing bacteria
Carlton R. Cooper crcooper@udel.edu Bone metastasis & prostate and breast cancer racial disparity
Melinda Duncan duncanm@udel.edu Cataract, cataract surgical side-effects, and eye development
​Aditya Dutta ​adidutta@udel.edu
David Edwards dge@udel.edu Cardiovascular physiology
William Farquhar wbf@udel.edu Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Velia Fowler vfowler@udel.edu Actin cytoskeleton, red blood cells, eye lens, super-resolution imaging, cell and tissue mechanics
​Jeffry Fuhrmann ​fuhrmann@udel.edu
Deni Galileo dgalileo@udel.edu Brain development and brain tumor invasion
Jason Gleghorn gleghorn@udel.edu Lung and kidney development, pancreatic cancer.
Pamela Green green@dbi.udel.edu Gene regulation by miRNAs and RNA degradation
Catherine Grimes cgrimes@udel.edu Host pathogen interactions
Tom Hanson tehanson@udel.edu Microbial communities
Aimee Jaramillo-Lambert anjl@udel.edu Study sex-specific differences in meiotic chromosome dynamics
Xinqiao Jia xjia@udel.edu Cell signaling in engineered environment & tissue engineering
Kristi Kiick kiick@udel.edu Biopolymeric materials for regenerative medicine
​​Amber Krauchunas ​arkrauch@udel.edu ​Fertilization, gamete activation, C. elegans
Salil Lachke salil@udel.edu Genetics of ocular disease; RNA granule function
​​Chi Keung Lam ​lamcg@udel.edu ​Heart disease, calcium regulation, stress signaling, chaperone, proteasome
Sigrid Langhans langhans@nemoursresearch.org Ion channels, cell signaling, and cancer
Gary Laverty laverty@udel.edu Epithelial transport systems in cultured tissues
Jung-Youn Lee lee@dbi.udel.edu Cell-to-cell communication through plant plasmodesmata
​Yihang Li ​liyh@udel.edu
Huey-Jen Lin hlin@udel.edu Cancer epigenetics
Zhengyu (Mark) Ma zma@nemours.org Using the adaptive immune system to treat cancer and allergy
Julia Maresca jmaresca@udel.edu Bacterial pigmentation and phototrophy
Joshua Neunuebel jneunuebel@psych.udel.edu Neurobiology of social communication
Ramona Neunuebel neunr@udel.edu Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
Anja Nohe anjanohe@udel.edu Biomedical imaging techniques
Eleftherios Papoutsakis epaps@udel.edu Microbial metabolic engineering; platelet biology; thrombosis
Vijay Parashar parashar@udel.edu Structure function analysis of microbiome cell signaling
Mark Parcells parcells@udel.edu Tumor virology and immunology; Marek’s Disease Virus
​Justin Parreno​ jparreno@udel.edu​ ​Actin Cytoskeleton, Tissue Engineering, Mechanotransduction, Cartilage, Lens
Shawn Polson polson@udel.edu Environmental metagenomics
Valerie Sampson valerie.sampson@nemours.org Treatments for pediatric sarcoma
Carl J. Schmidt schmidtc@udel.edu Bioinformatics and avian genomics
Karl Schmitz schmitzk@udel.edu Biochemistry and molecular microbiology of bacterial proteases
Erica Selva selva@udel.edu Signal transduction during Drosophila development
​Lisha Shao shaol@udel.edu​ ​Behavior, imaging, neurogenetics, reward circuit
Robert Sikes rasikes@udel.edu Mouse prostate development and human prostate cancer
Erin Sparks esparks@udel.edu Regulation of shoot-borne brace roots in maize
J Sims-Mourtada jsimsmourtada@christianacare.org Cancer stem cells and treatment resistance
Jia Song jsong@udel.edu Regulatory roles of small RNAs in early development
​Molly Sutherland ​msuther@udel.edu ​Cytochrome c ​biogenesis, membrane proteins, heme, microbiology
​Douglas Tallamy ​dtallamy@udel.edu
Jessica Tanis jtanis@udel.edu Ion channel regulation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Shunji Tomatsu stomatsu@nemours.org Therapy for skeletal dysplasia and lysosomal storage disorders
Kenneth van Golen klvg@udel.edu Rho GTPases in cancer
Liyun Wang lywang@udel.edu Musculoskeletal mechanobiology
Shuo Wei swei@udel.edu Proteases in cancer and development
Robert Witt RobertLWitt@gmail.com Tissue engineering for cancer survivors
Eric Wommack wommack@dbi.udel.edu Role of viruses/viral infection in microbial communities
Donna S. Woulfe dswoulfe@udel.edu Translational cardiovascular biology
Cathy Wu wuc@udel.edu Bioinformatics and computational systems biology
Yvette Yien yyien@udel.edu Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of heme synthesis
Soonmoon Yoo yoo@medsci.udel.edu Molecular regeneration and neuroimaging