NEWARK, Del. — When Joe Patria first came to the University of Delaware for his Ph.D. in molecular biology, he never thought he would end up doing research involving chickens. But, when he came across Mark Parcells, professor of molecular virology, and his lab, Patria ended up doing just that.
His main interests were molecular and cell biology — how changes within them affect the overall physiology of an entire system.
“Those contributions of everything that goes on down on a molecular level,” said Patria, who was named a Hiram Lasher Fellow. “When I met Prof. Parcells and did. . .