Mentorship Certified

Jonathan Cooper, PhD
Professor
- Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Disease mechanisms and treatments for inherited childhood neurodegeneration
Key words
Batten Disease, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCL, Lysosomal Storage Disease, pathogenesis, pre-clinical therapies, enzyme replacement, gene therapy

Kevin Cox Jr, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: coxkevin@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Research summary
Our research centers around studying spatial biology, or the spatial organization of genes, in plant systems. We investigate this through two research areas; plant-microbe interactions and duckweed biology.
Key words
plant biology; transcriptomics; spatial biology; imaging; molecular biology


Zhiyu Dai, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: z.dai@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
My research aims to understand the lung vascular homeostasis and the pathogenesis of pulmonary diseases using novel animal models, integrated pharmacological approaches, genome editing and single cell RNA-sequencing and spatial transcriptomics.
Key words
cardiovascular, lung, vascular, single cell, spatial transcriptomic





