Matthew P. Gordon

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Biological Sciences mpgordon@stanford.edu

Gilbert Room 109 mpgordon@alumni.princeton.edu
385 Serra Mall http://insingulo.blogspot.com

Stanford University O: (650) 724-5536

Stanford, CA 94305-5020 C: (217) 721-7600

Date and Place of Birth

May 19, 1976, Evanston, IL, USA

Family

Single, no children

Education

2006 Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Dissertation: Biophysical Applications of Single Molecule Fluorescence Localization

1998 A.B. cum laude, Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Undergraduate Certificate Program, Materials Science and Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Honors and Fellowships ( · Current)

· 2008 – 2010 NIH Ruth L. Kirschenstein National Research Service Award for Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)

2004 Catherine Connor Award for Outstanding Biotechnology Dissertation

2003 Awarded “Best Talk”, University of Illinois Cell and Molecular Biology/Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Symposium

2000 – 2003 NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Fellowship

Academic Appointments ( · Current)

·2006 – present Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Steven Block, PI

2000 – 2006 Graduate research assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Paul Selvin, PI

Research Focus

My primary interests are the development of single molecule techniques for the study of nucleic acid and protein structure. I am particularly interested in single molecule fluorescence tracking, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, and optical trapping, and how they can be used to illuminate questions about RNA stability, folding, and structure. I maintain a blog (http://insingulo.blogspot.com) which discusses recent developments in the field of single molecule biophysics. Other areas of biological interest include single-molecule genotyping technologies, intrinsically disordered proteins and RNA chaperones, motor proteins, and the evolution of the genetic code.

Publications and Patents

· Xiao, M.*, Gordon, M.P.*, et al., Determination of haplotypes from single DNA molecules: a method for single-molecule barcoding. Hum Mutation 28, 913-21 (2007) (*These authors contributed equally to this work)

· Gordon, M. P., Ha, T. & Selvin, P. R. Single-molecule high-resolution imaging with photobleaching. PNAS 101, 6462-6465 (2004).

· Gordon, M. P. & Selvin, P. R. A microcontroller-based failsafe for single photon counting modules. Review of Scientific Instruments 74, 1150-1152 (2003).

· U.S. Patent: A Method for Single Molecule Genetic Haplotyping (pending)

Activities and Service

Professional Societies

· Biophysical Society, 2000 – present

· Sigma Xi honor society, 1998 – 2000

Journal Reviewer

· Ad hoc reviewer (in collaboration with Prof. Steven Block), Optics Express, 2007

· Ad hoc reviewer (in collaboration with Prof. Paul Selvin), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006

Teaching

· Guest lecturer, Bio 41, Bio Core Explorations, Stanford University, Oct 2008

· Guest lecturer, Biophysics 401, Introduction to Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2005 (by request of Prof. Paul Selvin)

· Guest lecturer, Physics 402, Light, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2004 (by request of Prof. Taekjip Ha)

· Teaching assistant, Physics 398Bio, Introduction to Biological Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2003

· Volunteer Tutor, college-level introductory physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995 – 1996

· Volunteer Tutor, high-school level physics, Foundation for a College Education, East Palo Alto, CA, 2007 – 2008

· Volunteer Tutor, grade-school and high-school students, all subjects, East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center, Urbana, IL, 2000 – 2001

Last updated 2008-07-15