Matthew is responsible for animal husbandry, behavioral and metabolic phenotyping, and terminal collection of wild derived mice in an outbreeding program that seeks to develop a novel high-diversity outbred mouse population, called the Wild Mouse Diversity Panel (WMDP), utilizing four strategically selected wild-derived inbred mouse strains from the Nachman Strain Panel.
He has worked in biomedical research since receiving his BS in biochemistry from Illinois State University in 2016. First under Dr. Cathryn Nagler at the University of Chicago, studying the correlation and causation of peanut and milk allergies in infants with disruptions to the digestive microbiome.
Matthew came to JAX in 2022 and has previously worked under Dr. Jennifer Trowbridge, who studies hematopoietic stem cells, and under Dr. Jacqui White at the Center for Biometric Analysis performing behavioral phenotyping.