Daniel Wetmoreq
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Groups: | Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE] |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Columbia University, Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Departments of Applied Physics and Biological Sciences, Stanford University |
| Position: | Ph.D. Research with Dr. Mark Schnitzer |
| Time period: | January 2004 - Present |
| Description: | • Lead five-person team conducting research on cerebellum-dependent learning in mice.
• Develop novel behavioral and image processing techniques for ongoing experiments. • Conducted simulations of cerebellar neurons to support a new theory for cerebellar learning. • Preparing framework for the world’s first experiments that apply laser-scanning two-photon fluorescence imaging of neural physiology to learning in awake, behaving animals. • Write software in LabVIEW and Matlab programs for experiment control and data analysis. |
| Employer: | Pulmonary Department, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| Position: | Research Associate with Dr. Thomas Mariani |
| Time period: | January 2002 - December 2003 |
| Description: | • Created an algorithm to improve measurement accuracy for Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays.
• Co-developed software to identify potential transcription factor binding sites in promoter regions that exhibit a high degree of sequence conservation between mouse, rat, and human genomes. |
| Employer: | Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University |
| Position: | Research Assistant with Dr. Stuart Baker |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2002 |
| Description: | • Conducted electrophysiological studies of fine motor control.
• Analyzed collected data and developed a novel analytical technique for deducing neural excitability from spontaneous patterns of activity. |
| Employer: | Department of Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University |
| Position: | Graduate Research with Dr. Krishna Shenoy |
| Time period: | December 2003 |
| Description: | • Assisted in electrophysiological studies of reaching behavior.
• Generated artificial neural data sets with statistics derived from recorded neurons to determine feasibility of planned experiments. |
| Employer: | Arthur Andersen LLP |
| Position: | Summer Associate, Complex Claims and Events—part of the Business Consulting Group |
| Time period: | December 2000 |
| Description: | • Prepared financial models: performed background research, developed spreadsheets, and verified content of work papers and trial documents.
• Briefed in-house experts for deposition and trial testimony. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Columbia University |
| Time period: | 2001 |
| Degree: | Neuroscience & Behavior, BA |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2003 - Present |
| Degree: | PhD |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | 1. Wetmore, D.Z., Mukamel, E.A., and Schnitzer, M.J. (2007). “Lock-and-key mechanisms of
cerebellar memory recall based on rebound currents”, to be published in Journal of Neurophysiology. 2. Mecham, BH, Wetmore, DZ, Szallasi, Z, Sadovsky, Y, Kohane, Y & Mariani, TJ. (2004). “Increased measurement accuracy for sequence-verified microarray probes.” Physiological Genomics. 18:308-15. 3. Mecham BH, Klus GT, Strovel J, Augustus M, Byrne D, Bozso P, Wetmore DZ, Mariani TJ, Kohane IS, & Szallasi Z. (2004). “Sequence-matched probes produce increased cross-platform consistency and more reproducible biological results in microarray-based gene expression measurements.” Nucleic Acids Research. 32:e74. 4. Wetmore, DZ & Baker, SN. (2004). "Post-spike distance-to-threshold trajectories of neurones in monkey motor cortex." Journal of Physiology. 555(Pt 3):831-50. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | • National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship 2005-present
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude Columbia University, May, 2001 • Member, Phi Beta Kappa Columbia University, May, 2001 • Dean’s List Columbia University, All Semesters |
