Email

daniel.morales-mantilla@bcm.edu

Positions

Predoctoral Fellow

GSBS - Immunology
King Lab
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Mentor: Katherine Y. King, M.D./Ph.D

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital - Feigin Center (Lab)

1102 Bates St.
Room 460
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

BS from University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla

06/2015 - Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Biomedical Sciences

Research Fellowship at The Ohio State University

06/2016 - Columbus, Ohio United States

Professional Interests

• Emergency Hematopoiesis
• Infectious Diseases
• Therapeutic properties of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells
• Viral and Bacterial Superinfections

Professional Statement

The focus of Daniel's Ph.D. thesis project is to study the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) responses to infectious diseases and defining the kinetics of HSC differentiation during emergency hematopoiesis.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Daniel E Morales-Mantilla, Xinyan Huang, Philip Erice, Paul Porter, Yun Zhang, Mary Figueroa, Joya Chandra, Katherine Y King, Farrah Kheradmand, Antony Rodríguez "Cigarette Smoke Exposure in Mice using a Whole-Body Inhalation System." JoVE. 2020 Oct 22;164 Pubmed PMID: 33165327
• Daniel E Morales-Mantilla, Katherine Y King "The Role of Interferon-Gamma in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development, Homeostasis, and Disease." Curr Stem Cell Rep. 2018;4(3) Pubmed PMID: 30148048

Funding

Gilliam Fellowship

(09/01/2019 - 08/31/2022) Grant funding from HHMI

Languages

Spanish, Portuguese