Layden promoted to associate professor with tenure
At the May, 2020 meeting of the Lehigh Board of Trustees, Michael Layden, Ph.D. was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.
Layden came to Lehigh after serving as an assistant researcher at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida. Prior to this position, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Dr. Layden was awarded his bachelor of science degree in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Rochester. He then went on to earn his doctorate in Molecular Biology from the University of Oregon.
Dr. Layden has taught a variety of courses while at Lehigh, including Methods in Development, Developmental Biology, Evolution of Development, and a freshmen seminar, “Man is But a Worm.” Layden is a member of the department’s Graduate Committee, and has served on a number of faculty search committees. Research in the Layden Lab is focused on the neural development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Understanding the similarities in how developmental programs are redeployed during regeneration will provide critical clues necessary to better design regenerative therapies for biomedical applications.
Layden’s research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. In addition, he was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Award.
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