Daniel Stoddard, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Biophysics Research Interest Cryo-Electron Tomography Cryo-Focused Ion Beam Milling Single Particle Analysis Publications Featured Publications Functional classification of tauopathy strains reveals the role of protofilament core residues. Vaquer-Alicea J, Manon VA, Bommareddy V, Kunach P, Gupta A, Monistrol J, Perez VA, Tran HT, Saez-Calveras N, Du S, Batra S, Stoddard D, White CL, Joachimiak LA, Shahmoradian SH, Diamond MI, Sci Adv 2025 Jan 11 4 eadp5978 Cryo-EM structure of Alzheimer's disease tau filaments with PET ligand MK-6240. Kunach P, Vaquer-Alicea J, Smith MS, Monistrol J, Hopewell R, Moquin L, Therriault J, Tissot C, Rahmouni N, Massarweh G, Soucy JP, Guiot MC, Shoichet BK, Rosa-Neto P, Diamond MI, Shahmoradian SH, Nat Commun 2024 Oct 15 1 8497 Proteomic analysis of microtubule inner proteins (MIPs) in Rib72 null Tetrahymena cells reveals functional MIPs. Fabritius AS, Bayless BA, Li S, Stoddard D, Heydeck W, Ebmeier CC, Anderson L, Gunnels T, Nachiappan C, Whittall JB, Old W, Agard DA, Nicastro D, Winey M, Mol Biol Cell 2021 Aug mbcE20120786 Functional refolding of the penetration protein on a non-enveloped virus. Herrmann T, Torres R, Salgado EN, Berciu C, Stoddard D, Nicastro D, Jenni S, Harrison SC, Nature 2021 Feb 590 7847 666-670 Tetrahymena RIB72A and RIB72B are Microtubule Inner Proteins in the ciliary doublet microtubules. Stoddard D, Zhao Y, Bayless BA, Gui L, Louka P, Dave D, Suryawanshi S, Tomasi RF, Dupuis-Williams P, Baroud CN, Gaertig J, Winey M, Nicastro D Mol. Biol. Cell 2018 Aug mbcE18060405 The nexin link and B-tubule glutamylation maintain the alignment of outer doublets in the ciliary axoneme. Alford LM, Stoddard D, Li JH, Hunter EL, Tritschler D, Bower R, Nicastro D, Porter ME, Sale WS Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2016 Apr Results 1-6 of 6 1 Honors & Awards Founder and Leader of the Texas CryoEM Consortium (TCC) (2025) Founder and chair of the first annual Texas Cryo-EM Symposium (2024) 2022 Leadership in Emerging Academic Departments (LEAD) program graduate (2022-2022) Professional Associations/Affiliations Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2017) Microscopy Society of America (2021) National CryoAccess Group Co-Leader (2025) Texas CryoEM Consortium (TCC) Founder & Leader (2025) Texas CryoEM Symposium Planning committee member (2023) UTHealth Houston CryoEM External Advisory Board Member (2025)