Maria Everett is a professor of biology at Utah Valley University, where she leads a research group studying cellular regeneration and teaches cell biology to undergraduate and graduate students.
Her laboratory investigates how tissues repair themselves after injury — the molecular signals that tell a cell whether to divide, repair, or stop dividing altogether — and why that regenerative capacity declines as we age. Discoveries from her group have reshaped how the field understands the boundary between repair and cellular senescence, and her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
A dedicated teacher and science communicator, she has mentored more than fifty graduate and undergraduate researchers and directs UVU's Biology in the Community program, which brings hands-on laboratory science to high schools across Utah County. She is the author of a widely adopted cell-biology textbook and a frequent public voice on the science of regeneration and healthy aging.
Education
- Ph.D., Molecular & Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley · 2004
- B.S., BiologyUniversity of Utah · 1999