Dr. De Lay joined the Department of Microbiology and Molecular genetics in 2013 after completing his postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Susan Gottesman at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. Dr. De Lay received his Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after completing his doctoral thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. John Cronan and earned his B.A., cum laude, from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. At Cornell University, Dr. De Lay carried out his undergraduate thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Winans.