Batish Laboratory

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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