About Me.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Shelton, D.S., Shelton, S.G., Daniel, D.K., Raja, M., Bhat, A., Higgs, D., Tanguay, R.L., and Martins, E.P. (2020). Zebrafish social behavior in the wild. Zebrafish, 13(1), 1-8 
  2. Shelton D.S. and Alberts J.R. (2018) Development of behavioral responses to thermal challenges, Developmental Psychobiology, 54(7), 766. 10.1002/dev.2158   • Wiley #top20article award for a top downloaded article in recent publication history
  3. Shelton D.S., Meyer P.M., +Ocasio K.M. (2017) Environmental structure and energetic consequences in groups of young mice, Physiology and Behavior, 177, 155-160.
  4. Shelton D.S., +Price B.C., +Ocasio K.M., and Martins E.P. (2015) Social and physical environment influences shoal cohesion, but not coordination in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 129, 72-77.
  5. †Dillon G.M, †Shelton D., McKinney A.P., Caniga M., Marcus J.N., Ferguson M.T., Kornecook T.J., and Dodart, J.C., (2009). Prefrontal cortex lesions and scopolamine impair attention performance of C57BL/6 mice in a novel 2-choice visual discrimination task, Behavioral Brain Research, 204, 67-76. †authors contributed equally. 
I graduated from Southwestern University with a BS in Animal Behavior and Spanish. After spending a year abroad conducting research at Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica and University of Ghana, I received a teaching certificate from Prairie View A&M University. I then taught science at an inner-city high school in the 7th largest school district in the United States.  In 2016, I completed a dual  PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Evolution Ecology and Behavior. I was awarded 7 fellowships including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a United Negro College Fund•Merck Fellowship, and have published 22 scholarly works. I completed a NSF Postdoctoral fellowship studying the social lives of zebrafish by splitting time between the labs of Drs. Jens Krause (Leibniz Institute), Dennis Higgs (University of Windsor), and Robyn Tanguay (Oregon State University). I am a member of the Animal Behavior Society Diversity Committee and former coordinator of their Charles H. Turner program. I completed an NIH National Institutes Environmental Health and Safety (NIEHS) K99/R00 postdoctoral fellowship at Orgeon State University studying how cadmium leads to behavioral disorders. I am now an assistant professor at the University of Miami studying how contaminants affect human and environmental health.

When not tinkering away in the lab, I take every opportunity to travel. I have engaged in field research, courses, outreach and diplomacy in over 20 countries across 4 continents (Shelton, 2013). I enjoy turning up on the dancing floor (¡Baile salsa!), gardening, horseback riding, and diving into the depths of the ocean (PADI certified!). 

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EDUCATION

2016          Indiana University, PhD
2011           Poynter Institute, Teaching Research Ethics
                    certificate
2010          Prairie View A&M University, Teaching certificate
2009         Southwestern University, BS
2009         University of Ghana
2008         Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
AWARDS

2020          NIH NIEHS K99/R00 Fellow
2018           Wiley #top20article​ 
2017           Animal Behavior Society Allee Competition  
                      Semifinalist
2016           NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology
2014           Be More Engaged Award from the city of
                       Bloomington, IN
2010           NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2010           NSF IGERT Fellowship
2007          United Negro College Fund • Merck Fellowship
2005          Bishop T. Dixon Scholarship
​ © Delia Shelton 2018-2028