Daniel Munteanu

What I'm working on

A small part in a big project
🦟 Understanding how an organism's past experience might help or hinder its ability to thrive under stressful conditions. I've been using Drosophila and temperature to tackle this question through the lens of cell and systems physiology.Summer 2023
☔ Modeling development and plasticity of complex adaptive systems through unpredictable stress conditions. I aim to study mutual aid networks of various kinds in urban and rural Vermont communities.🏙️ Developing accessible data analysis and visualization methods to enable truly democratic decision making in human cities.Back to insects...
🐜 Building conceptual model of deception, policing in social insects

Technical Education

2011-2015 Fairfield Warde High School and Bridgeport Aquaculture Tech Center
lab skills, analytical chemistry techniques, CAD, start thinking critically about biological questions, scientific communication
UConn ECE and BACA research courses2015-2016 University of Illinois
nanoparticle synthesis, transmission electron microscopy
Chemistry/Materials Science coursework2016-2018 University of Connecticut
nucleic acid prep, qRT-PCR, molecular cloning, cell culture, biochemical assays
BSc Molecular and Cell Biology
summa cum laude + Undergraduate Thesis2018-2019 University of Connecticut
plant tissue culture and transformation, immunocytochemistry and in-situ hybridization, confocal microscopy, bioinformatics, live-cell imaging, experimental design, mouse husbandry
MSc Physiology and Neurobiology
+Lab TA. Anatomy and Physiology I (majors)
+Lab TA. Principles of Molecular Physiology2020-... University of Vermont
*fly husbandry, data visualizations, biostatistics, insect physiology, mathematical models, snRNAseq, mentorship, interdisciplinary skills, etc. *
PhD Biology and QuEST NRT Trainee
+Lab TA. Ecology and Evolution
+Member. Biology Grad Journal Club

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