Eugenia Villa-Cuesta is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Adelphi University. With the help of very talented students, Dr. Villa-Cuesta’s laboratory focuses on how genes and environment influence aging and diseases. In particular, her laboratory uses Drosophila melanogaster to study the role of the co-evolution between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in the biology of mitochondria. This research is funded by  NIH.

Dr. Villa-Cuesta is also a co-PI in the NSF funded project (STEM) 2 Network , a network that facilitates multidisciplinary and multi institutional collaboration between faculty in STEM.