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 |
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General research area: avian genomics, and genetics of muscle diseases in chickens |
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Robert Akins |
Cardiac tissue engineering and nerve/muscle interactions |
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Ryan Arsenault |
Cell signal transduction as applied to the immune system, metabolism, gut health & bacterial pathogenesis |
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Sonali Barwe |
Cancer drug resistance |
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Single molecule RNA imaging of novel cancer biomarkers |
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Mechanism of transcription, metabolism, epitranscriptomics, RNA capping |
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Biomolecular analysis of inherited visual disease; HPV oncogenesis |
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Bacterial evolution and pathogenesis |
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Bruce Boman |
Cancer Stem Cells |
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Matthew Butchbach |
Spinal muscular atrophy pathogenesis |
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Programmed cell death in plant innate immunity |
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Iron metabolizing bacteria |
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Bone metastasis & prostate and breast cancer racial disparity |
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Cataract, cataract surgical side-effects, and eye development |
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Cardiovascular physiology |
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Cardiovascular and exercise physiology |
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Actin cytoskeleton, red blood cells, eye lens, super-resolution imaging, cell and tissue mechanics |
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Brain development and brain tumor invasion |
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Lung and kidney development, pancreatic cancer. |
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Pamela Green |
Gene regulation by miRNAs and RNA degradation |
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Host pathogen interactions |
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Microbial communities |
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Study sex-specific differences in meiotic chromosome dynamics |
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Cell signaling in engineered environment & tissue engineering |
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Biopolymeric materials for regenerative medicine |
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Fertilization, gamete activation, C. elegans |
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Genetics of ocular disease; RNA granule function |
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Heart disease, calcium regulation, stress signaling, chaperone, proteasome |
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Ion channels, cell signaling, and cancer |
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Gary Laverty |
Epithelial transport systems in cultured tissues |
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Cell-to-cell communication through plant plasmodesmata |
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Cancer epigenetics |
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Zhengyu (Mark) Ma |
Using the adaptive immune system to treat cancer and allergy |
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Bacterial pigmentation and phototrophy |
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Neurobiology of social communication |
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Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis |
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Biomedical imaging techniques |
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Microbial metabolic engineering; platelet biology; thrombosis |
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Structure function analysis of microbiome cell signaling |
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Tumor virology and immunology; Marek’s Disease Virus |
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Actin Cytoskeleton, Tissue Engineering, Mechanotransduction, Cartilage, Lens |
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Environmental metagenomics |
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Valerie Sampson |
Treatments for pediatric sarcoma |
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Bioinformatics and avian genomics |
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Biochemistry and molecular microbiology of bacterial proteases |
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Signal transduction during Drosophila development |
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Behavior, imaging, neurogenetics, reward circuit |
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Mouse prostate development and human prostate cancer |
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Regulation of shoot-borne brace roots in maize |
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Cancer stem cells and treatment resistance |
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Regulatory roles of small RNAs in early development |
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Cytochrome c biogenesis, membrane proteins, heme, microbiology |
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Ion channel regulation in Caenorhabditis elegans |
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Shunji Tomatsu |
Therapy for skeletal dysplasia and lysosomal storage disorders |
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Rho GTPases in cancer |
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Musculoskeletal mechanobiology |
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Proteases in cancer and development |
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Robert Witt |
Tissue engineering for cancer survivors |
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Role of viruses/viral infection in microbial communities |
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Translational cardiovascular biology |
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Bioinformatics and computational systems biology |
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Yvette Yien |
Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of heme synthesis |
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Soonmoon Yoo |
Molecular regeneration and neuroimaging |