Dan Vanatta is a computational biochemist who received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 2015. His dissertation focused on simulations of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. During graduate school, he developed novel algorithms to interpret computational models based on experimental data and statistically analyzed the activation pathways of bacterial signaling protein NtrC. He has published papers on the origin of molecular resistance to vancomycin and the network of molecular switches that control NtrC activation. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University studying phosphorylation and protein activation through molecular dynamics simulations and statistical analysis.