Biography

Tania Roth received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Roanoke College in 1998. She then completed her doctoral degree in 2004 in the laboratory of Regina Sullivan at the University of Oklahoma, where she investigated the neurobehavioral basis of infant-caregiver attachment and the ontogeny of fear learning and memory. She then did her postdoctoral research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the laboratory of David Sweatt, working on DNA methylation in brain plasticity and behavior. In 2010 she joined the University of Delaware as an assistant professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Roth has received numerous honors and awards for scholarship, including a Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, a Ziskind-Somerfeld award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, and a Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholar Award from the University of Delaware. She was elected as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association. She has served as President of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences for the College of Arts and Sciences.

In her research, she seeks to understand how adversity encountered early in development can get under the skin to have consequences for behavior. Projects she leads or collaborates on explore the relationship between early-life experiences, epigenetic marking of DNA, and behavioral outcomes.

Research Areas

Behavioral neuroscience, clinical science, developmental, health