Daniel Gomez

I am daniel gomezORCID iD iconan emerging bioscientist immersed in exercise immunology, neuroscience, and computuational/systems cancer biology. I discovered that the niche in spatially resolved cellular atlases, computational systems biology, single-cell data science, bioinformatics and bioengineering, precision health/medicine, and human translational research to be the best research paths for me.
As a graduate student researcher, I am currently writing on my master's thesis in the Snyder Lab at Stanford Genetics to complete a Master's of Science Degree in Biological Sciences at the California State University, East Bay. I got certified in the Fundamentals of Data Science in Precision Medicine and Cloud Computing at Stanford University School of Medicine.

I received my Bachelor's of Science degree in Biology: Cellular and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University after transferring from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in the Molecular Cell Biology program. This website has migrated to dangomez.pro

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Thesis Research

Graduate Student Researcher, Genetics

My research is in exercise molecular physiology and immunology with computational systems biology, precision health, exercise oncology, as well as spatially resolved multi-omics. Specifically, creating an organ exercise map that has cellular atlases, spatial transcriptome maps, that describe cellular neighboorhoods, communities, exerkines (exercise + cytokines), ligand-receptors in normal physiology (healthy) and diseases in multiple research consortia: Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity (MoTrPAC), Genotype-Tisse Expression (GTEx) project, Human Biomolecular Atlas Project (HuBMAP), Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), PsychENCODE Project, Human Cell Atlas (Human Gut Cell Atlas, Human Lung Cell Atlas, Human Brain Cell Atlas).
Research and Publications

I'm interested in multiple disciplines of medicine and biosciences, molecular biology, genetics, biomedical data science, computational biology, integrative multiomics, pathology, bioinformatics, biomedical data science/machine learning (AI/ML), single-cell and spatial biology, chemistry, structural biology, biophysics, tissue and organ architecture.

*Denotes co-first authorship
Co-Infection and Cancer: Host-Pathogen Interaction between Dendritic Cells and HIV-1, HTLV-1, and Other Oncogenic Viruses
Tania Mulherkar*, Daniel J. Gomez* Grace Sandel, Pooja R. Jain
Viruses, 2022   (Publication)
CSU ScholarWorks / Drexel University Libraries Conference Proceeding / pdf / Poster / Presentation

We connected dendritic cells (DCs) interactions during co-infections with several malignancies as well as oncogenic viruses and their current respective therapeutics.

Pioneering Organelle Structural Biology
Daniel Gomez
Preprints, 2022   (Preprint)   pdf

Conference Paper, 2023   (Conference Presentation)   video
Conference Paper MDPI AG | Biology and Life Science Forum / Cells 2023 Submission / Cells 2023 Conference Session 2: Organelle Function

Keywords: cancer; Golgi; organelle structural biology; nanoimages; tomograms; therapeutics; cryo-ET; SXT; CLEM; structural biology; organelles; Golgi Apparatus (GA); Parkinsons disease (PD); cryo-ET; alpha-synuclein; neurodegenerative diseases; soft X-ray tomography (SXT); cancer; NDDs

Leadership and Teaching

In addition to research, I am passionate about education, leadership, teaching and mentoring students in the sciences. I have been involved in various leadership roles in academia and industry. With experience in well-funded startups, I continue to pursue research leadership, strategic vision, and organizational supervision during my endevaors and rise in business accumen.

Journal Refereeing

Reviewer, MDPI 2022- / MDPI Reviewer Certificate

Teaching

I have taught Chemistry and Biology undergraduates in General Chemistry Laboratory, Clinical Microbiology Lab, and Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab.
Teaching Associate, BIOL230: Introduction to Clinical Microbiology Lab, Fall 2022
Teaching Associate, BIOL270: Human Anatomy and Physiology I Lab, Fall 2022
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Teaching Assistant, CHEM161L: General Chemistry I Lab, Spring 2011

Grant Funding

Successfully securing grant funding demonstrates my ability to develop and lead research projects, as well as my expertise in grant writing, timeline forecasting, and budget management.

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Graduate Funding

Multiple Grants Submitted, Stanford

Undergraduate Funding

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Molecular Cell Biology Undergrad Program
Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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