Matthew Rossi | Faculty Directory

Professional Background

Education

2011 - Doctor of Philosophy - Biochemistry - Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2005 - Master of Science - Biology - East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
2003 - Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry & Cell Biology - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

2017 - Postdoctoral Fellow - Biochemistry & Cell Biology - Penn State University, University Park, PA-Advisor: B. Franklin Pugh

Amedeo Bondi Award Winner Graduating Students, Drexel Univ. College of Medicine 11

For excellence in research-Biomedical Graduate Studies

Amedeo Bondi Fellowship Award Winner, Drexel Univ. College of Medicine 08

For excellence in research-Biomedical Graduate Studies

First Place Award-Poster Presentation Jr Graduate Student 06

Drexel Univ. College of Medicine Annual Research Day

Magna Cum Laude, B. S., Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Bucknell University 03

2020 - Assistant Research Professor - Penn State University, University Park, PA
August 2020 - Research Assistant Professor - Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2021-April - Assistant Professor - UTHSA, Dept. of Biochemistry and Structural Biology

Research & Grants

Service

Professor: Model Systems & Approaches in Cell Biology BMB 448 Fall semester 2017 – 2019

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Penn State University

Guest Lecturer: Communities of Practice in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Spring semester 2018

BMB 488, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Penn State University

Tutor: graduate and undergraduate students in biochemistry, 2003 – 2007

molecular biology, and introductory biological science courses.

Drexel University College of Medicine & East Stroudsburg University

Teaching assistant: introduction to molecular biology lab course 2004 – 2005

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting – Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2019.

38th Penn State Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology: Chromatin and Epigenetic Regulation of Transcription. University Park, PA, 2019.

34th Penn State Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology: Chromatin and Epigenetic Regulation of Transcription. University Park, PA, 2015.

American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting: Transcriptional Regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II. Snowbird, UT, 2014.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting – Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2013.

Publications