Victoria Gellatly
PhD, Biological Sciences, University at Albany
MS, Forensic Biology, University at Albany
BS, Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo
About
Forensic Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, DNA/RNA Sequencing
Research Interests
Dr. Victoria Gellatly earned her BS in Biological Sciences from SUNY University at Buffalo in 2017, where she stayed for two more years working as a research support specialist in Dr. Matthew Xu-Friedman's lab before coming to the University at Albany in 2019. She then earned her MS in Forensic Biology in 2021 under the mentorship of Dr. Arati Iyengar, followed by her PhD in Biology in Dr. Melinda Larsen's lab in 2025.
She has a diverse research background, including neuroscience and the effects of noise damage on the cochlear nucleus, forensic biology and population-wide STR analysis and most recently investigating the effects of ionizing radiation (IR) treatment on the salivary glands via single cell RNA sequencing. She is excited to apply her broad skillset within the context of forensics and biology at large.
Publications
Gellatly V, Kenney J, Nelson D, Suarez E, De-Veer P, Gabunia S, Ovitt C, and Larsen M I Irradiation-Induced Alterations to Epithelial Cell Subpopulations in the Submandibular Gland 2025. (In preparation)
Altrieth AL, Kenney J, Nelson DA, Suarez EG, Gellatly V, Gabunia S, Larsen M. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Salivary Gland Endothelial Cells. J Dent Res. 2024 Mar;103(3):269-278. doi: 10.1177/00220345231219987. PMID: 38411696; PMCID: PMC10985389.
Altrieth AL, O’Keefe KJ, Gellatly VA, Tavarez JR, Feminella SM, Moskwa NL, Cordi CV, Turrieta JC, Nelson DA and Larsen M (2023), Identifying fibrogenic cells following salivary gland obstructive injury. Front. Cell Dev. Biol.11:1190386.doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1190386
Aliyeva A, Gellatly V, Abbasov M, Iyengar A. Population genetic data for 21 autosomal STR loci in the Azerbaijani population using the Globalfiler™ kit. Int J Legal Med. 2021 Sep;135(5):1789-1791. doi: 10.1007/s00414-021-02610-2. Epub 2021 Apr 27. PMID: 33907867. PRE-PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Delcroix V, Maduit O, Nelson D, Kenney J, Gellatly V, De-Veer P, Lombaert I, Vesela I, Guzman S, Makarenkova HP, Ovitt C, and Larsen M. Cross-Exocrine Gland Single Cell Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Cell Features. Manuscript in-revision.
Book Chapters
Larsen M, Nelson D, Kwon HR, Peters SB, Kenney J, Gellatly V, Bogdanov P, Duffy C, Sood R, and Chittur S. "Overview of Transcriptomic Approaches for the Study of Salivary Gland Biology and Regeneration". Systems Biology. In Salivary Gland Development and Regeneration, Editor: Seunghee Cha. 2025 Springer Nature.