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Matthew W. Gorton, BS

Ph.D. Candidate
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Bio: Matthew W. Gorton

Matthew W. Gorton is a Doctoral candidate in the lab of Dr. Adel Pezeshki in the Department of Animal and Food Science at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Matthew began his Ph.D. program in 2021 and is expected to graduate in 2025. Matthew earned his B.Sc. in Animal Science from OSU as a first-generation college student and is the first member of his family to begin a doctoral program. Matthew was awarded first place in the Whiteman Award for outstanding graduate student presentations. He has also received several scholarships including the Dr. Bill Luce Graduate Scholarship, the Rob & Mary (Kalka) Shuey Animal and Food Sciences Graduate Fellowship, and the Williams Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from OSU in 2023 and 2024. Furthermore, Matthew was selected for the Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Finalist award and awarded 2nd place in the Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition in Experimental Animal Nutrition during the 2023 American Society of Nutrition in Boston.

Matthew's research focuses on understanding the role of branched-chain amino acids restriction on glycemic control and insulin sensitivity using both cell culture and animal models. Matthew has been instrumental in adopting multiple new research techniques into Pezeshki's lab such as genetic editing in both cell culture and mice models. Further, he was responsible for training lab members, and collaborating with other laboratories to develop these techniques. He has been coauthored in one peer-reviewed journal, Metabolites, and published 9 abstracts as author or coauthor in several journals such as Current Developments in Nutrition, Journal of Animal Science, and the NACTA Journal. Matthew has presented his research fundings as poster or oral at local and national scientific conferences.

Matthew has worked diligently and tirelessly to help expand his knowledge in the field of nutritional physiology while learning from and assisting other students in the department at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Matthew has served as a graduate mentor to 12 undergraduate researchers, teaching them in vivo and in vitro techniques such as diet formulation, tissue and blood collection, cell culture, qPCR, western blotting, and bacterial plating and culture. Matthew has also served as a graduate teaching assistant for two courses, including Principles of Animal Nutrition and Basic Nutrition for Pets.

In addition to Matthew's research and teaching duties, Matthew has served as the Graduate and Professional Student Government Association representative for the Animal Science Graduate Student Association from 2022 to 2023. Matthew also serves as a delegate at large for the American Society of Nutrition Experimental Animal Nutrition Leadership team. He has also served as a feedback provider for the OSU Undergraduate Research Symposium annually. Matthew has further served as an ad-hoc reviewer for several journals such as the Macedonian Veterinary Review and Tropical Animal Health and Production.

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