SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

MATTHEW DAVENPORT, PhD PROGRAM MANAGER, BIOSCIENCES AND INFORMATICS THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY

Co-Chair, AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays

Matt is a Program Manager in Biosciences and Informatics at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to include projects in personalized genomics, the Microbiome, and functional biology. Matt also works in the areas of human performance and austere medicine with military communities. Prior to JHU/APL, Matt was a Program Manager in the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) where he established the DHS Public Safety Actionable Assay (PSAA) program and the Stakeholder Panel for Agent Detection Assays (SPADA) to develop voluntary consensus standards for the validation of biothreat detection technologies used by first responders and private-sector end users. In addition to the PSAA program, Matt coordinated a number of bioinformatics efforts including: the development of new databases and software to identify signatures that can be used to specifically detect biothreat agents; sequencing strains of biothreats and their genetic near-neighbors; and application of next generation sequencing to biothreat detection. He also served on numerous interagency committees and co-chaired a working group under the National Science and Technology Council that produced A National Strategy for CBRNE Standards . Matt joined DHS S&T as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where he worked in the same areas of biological countermeasures. Prior to DHS, he was a postdoctoral fellow at both The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center studying the biochemical mechanisms that control replication of the human genome and the repair of genome when it becomes damaged. Matt earned his doctorate from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. in microbiology from North Carolina State University.