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Current Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Nicholas R. De Lay, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

email: nicholas.r.delay@uth.tmc.edu

Undergraduate Education:
Cornell University, 1997-2001
B.A., Biological Sciences
Mentor: Stephen Winans, Ph.D.

Graduate Education:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2007
M.S., Ph.D., Microbiology
Mentor: John E. Cronan, Jr., Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Training:
NIH, National Cancer Institute, 2007-2013
Mentor: Susan Gottesman, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professors

Dhriti Sinha, Ph.D. (12/2015-present)

email: Dhriti.Sinha@uth.tmc.edu

Undergraduate Education:
Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, India, 2002-2005
B.S., Microbiology

Graduate Education:
Jadavpur University, Kokata, India, 2005-2007
M.S., Biotechnology

Indiana University at Bloomington, 2007-2014
Ph.D., Microbiology
Mentor: Malcolm Winkler, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Training:
Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2015-2021
Mentor: Nicholas De Lay, Ph.D.

Previous Lab Members:

Postodoctoral Research Fellows

Nidhi Verma, Ph.D. (10/2020-10/2021)

Undergraduate Education:
Agra University, Agra, India, 2009-2011
B.S., Biotechnology

Graduate Education:
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna University,
Uttarakhand, India, 2011-2013
M.S., Industrial Biotechnology

Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India, 2014-2020
Ph.D., Life Sciences
Mentor: Atul Kumar Johri, Ph.D. and
Sneh Lata Panwar, Ph.D.



Todd Cameron, Ph.D. (1/2014-5/2019)

Undergraduate Education:
California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, 2003-2008
B.S., Biotechnology
Mentor: Christos Stathopoulos, Ph.D.

Graduate Education:
University of California at Berkeley, 2008-2013
Ph.D., Microbiology
Mentor: Patricia Zambryski, Ph.D.

Lisa Matz, Ph.D. (8/2017-4/2019)

Undergraduate Education:
Texas Tech University at Lubbock, 2006-2010
B.S., Microbiology

Graduate Education:
Baylor College of Medicine at Houston, 2010-2017
Mentor: Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D.

Research Assistants

Daisy Porter (5/2023-7/2024)

email:Daisy.L.Porter@uth.tmc.edu

Undergraduate Education:
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 2015-2020
B.S., Biology, Minor in Forensic Science

Graduate Education:
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 2020-2023
M.S., Biology

Microbiology Summer Research Project (MicroSURP) students

Kathryn Codiamat (5/2024-7/2024), Rice University

Spencer Reiling (5/2023-7/2023), University of Texas at Arlington

Gabriela Perez (5/2021-7/2021), Rice University

Roshni Jaffery (5/2019-7/2019), Baylor University

Jacob Frick (5/2018-7/2018), University of New Orleans

Nainika Roy (5/2017-7/2017), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign