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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