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

Ryan Arsenault

rja@udel.edu

Cell signal transduction as applied to the immune system, metabolism, gut health & bacterial pathogenesis

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