Evolutionary developmental biologist David Q. Matus, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department at Stony Brook University in New York. He is interested in cellular invasion, a behavior observed in some normal cells during development and a hallmark of metastatic cancer cells.

Dr. Matus began his scientific career—and met his wife, Deirdre, also a biomedical scientist—while training dolphins in Hawaii as part of an internship on dolphin cognition. He decided to stay at University of Hawaii for graduate school, studying gene networks in sea anemones in the lab of Mark Q. Martindale, Ph.D.

 

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