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Mona Batish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Mona Batish is AssociateProfessor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences with adjunct faculty appointments in the  Department of Biological Sciences and jDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences at University of Delaware since 2017. She started her laboratory in the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers University in 2012. She received her PhD in 2011 from UMDNJ (currently Rutgers University), working with Dr. Sanjay Tyagi on understanding the mechanism by which mRNAs are transported from the cell body to active synapses in distant dendrites of the hippocampal neurons.  Dr. Batish started her own laboratory via an accelerated path as a recipient of NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (EIA) 2012 for using single molecule imaging tools to use RNA as diagnostic biomarker for various malignancies.  Since 2012, Utilizing single-molecule RNA imaging, we visualize, quantify and study the associations of RNA targets in fixed and live cells in different contexts and various biological systems to address basic biology questions and apply them to translational biology.

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Current Lab members 

Aakash Koppula

Ph.D. Student

Brigette Romero

Ph.D. student

Ahmed G A  Abdelgawad 

Ph.D. Student

Parsa Hoque

Masters student

Christina Tao

Masters student

Raktim Basu

Nikhita Bomasamudram

Undergraduate students

Past Lab members 

Fatu B Markey 

Ph.D. Student

now at Rita Allen foundation

Amber Grunow 

Undergraduate Student

now Masters Student at UD 

Alison Kwolaski 

Research Technician

now in veterinary school

Paul Wolujewicz 

Masters Student

now PhD student at Cornell University 

Aritra Basu

Undergraduate Student

now Masters Student at Johns Hopkins 

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