{"id":2441,"date":"2019-04-11T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/?page_id=2441"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:44:33","slug":"danielmattox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/people\/danielmattox\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Mattox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;!--<span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 40pt\">Daniel Mattox<\/span><\/strong><\/span>--&gt;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2774 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-111x55.jpg 111w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-1600x792.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-800x396.jpg 800w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010160-e1555513499218-580x287.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/daniel-mattox\/\" class=\"wpz-sc-button large\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-linkedin\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.dartmouth.edu\/~cbk\/\" class=\"wpz-sc-button large\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-flask\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>Thesis lab<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">HOMETOWN<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><strong>Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">LANGUAGES<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><strong>English, German<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">THESIS MENTOR<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/home.dartmouth.edu\/faculty-directory\/chris-bailey-kellogg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Dr. Chris Bailley-Kellogg<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">FAVORITE PROTEIN<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><strong>Griffithsin\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2779\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcsb.org\/structure\/2HYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2779 \" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielprotein-287x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Crystal structure of Griffithsin; Credit: Daniel Mattox<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">North Carolina University at Chapel Hill<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Biology<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genelab.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>NASA Ames Research Center - USRA<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Bioinformatics Intern<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biomedomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>BioMedomics Inc.<\/b><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Diagnostic Device Development<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><b>UNC School of Medicince - <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.duke.edu\/faculty\/teresa-kathleen-tarrant-md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Teresa Tarrant<\/a><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Research Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"threecol-one last\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large rounded \"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;color: #008000\"><strong>DARTMOUTH QBS PROFILE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">THESIS TITLE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Capturing Global Determinants of Lectin Specificity for the Development of Novel Therapeutics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">CAREER TRACK(S)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Academia, Industry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>AWARDS &amp; TRAINING GRANTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Burroughs-Wellcome Big Data in the Life Sciences Training Fellowship<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NIH-Dartmouth Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Training Fellowship<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">TECHNICAL EXPERTISE<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u00a0Protein engineering, Glycobiology, Immunology, Biotherapeutics, Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, Bash, Rosetta, PyMol, Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing Clusters, Cell culture, Molecular cloning, Western blots, PCR\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Co-founder QuantBlitz (Dartmouth Data Analytics Club)<br \/>\nGraduate Student Council Representative for QBS<br \/>\nMember of Dartmouth Outing Club<br \/>\nScience Scholars Peer Mentor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large rounded \"><span style=\"color: #008000;font-size: 24pt\"><strong>QBS PhD Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Electives<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.smartcatalogiq.com\/current\/orc\/Departments-Programs-Graduate\/Computer-Science\/COSC-Computer-Science\/100\/COSC-186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">COSC 186<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>: Computational Structural Biology, <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.smartcatalogiq.com\/current\/orc\/Departments-Programs-Graduate\/Engineering-Sciences\/ENGS-Engineering-Sciences\/100\/ENGS-163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGS 163<\/a>: Advanced Protein Engineering, <a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/qbs-177-methods-of-statistical-learning-for-big-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QBS177\/MATH 177<\/a>: Methods of Statistical Learning for Big Data, <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.smartcatalogiq.com\/current\/orc\/Departments-Programs-Graduate\/Graduate-Studies-Office\/UNSG-300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNSG 300:<\/a> Communicating Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.smartcatalogiq.com\/current\/orc\/Departments-Programs-Graduate\/Microbiology-and-Immunology\/MICR-Microbiology-and-Immunology\/100\/MICR-144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MICR 144<\/a>: Cellular &amp; Molecular Basis of Immunity<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>TA for:<\/p>\n<p>Foundations of Epidemiology I<\/p>\n<p>Foundations of Epidemiology II<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=0aA-50UAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" class=\"wpz-sc-button medium\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-file-text-o\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Poster Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Canadian Glycomics Poster Session, Virtual (2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">12th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases, Virtual (2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">NIH Glycoscience Research Day, Bathesda, MD (2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Big Data in the Life Sciences Symposium, Lebanon, NY (1st place in poster competition) 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">NASA Ames Research Summer Intern Poster Session, Moffett field, CA (2018<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">3<sup>rd\u00a0<\/sup>Celebration of Biomedical Research at Dartmouth (2017)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Norris Cotton Cancer Center Scientific Retreat (2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">News Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2019\/04\/flint-water-crisis-fifth-anniversary-flint-river-pollution\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Oral Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\"><em>Detecting differentially activated miRNAs from proteomics data in response to spaceflight stresses<\/em> (American Society for Space and Gravitational Research, 2018, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: 24pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><div class=\"threecol-one\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">My Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\"><em>\"My research interests include understanding how and why proteins interact with different molecules, then leveraging and validating insights to alter protein functions in beneficial ways.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">RESEARCHER I ADMIRE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><b>Linus Pauling<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">Why QBS?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\"><em>\"I chose QBS because of the amount of cool research going on, the natural beauty of the area, the strength of the cross disciplinary training, and the genuine warmth of all the students and faculty I met when interviewing.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">FAVORITE QBS CLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/qbs-175-foundations-of-bioinformatics-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QBS 175\/COSC 175<\/a>: <span style=\"color: #000000\">Foundations of Bioinformatics II<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <div class=\"threecol-one last\">\n<div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">Life @ Dartmouth<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">WHEN I AM NOT IN LAB\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\"><em>\"I am exploring the lovely New England outdoors with my amazing fianc\u00e9e and our two happy pups.<\/em><em>\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2780\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups.png 984w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups-768x873.png 768w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups-901x1024.png 901w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups-48x55.png 48w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/danielpups-800x909.png 800w, 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