Kyle G. Daniels, PhD

Kyle G. Daniels, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University. His laboratory is interested in understanding how information is encoded in receptors, signaling adapters, and gene regulatory elements. The goals of his work are to decode natural signaling systems to understand their functions, and to encode specific instructions in synthetic signaling systems to engineer therapeutic cells. His lab uses synthetic biology, high-throughput library screening, and machine learning to explore how various signaling molecules control cell function. The lab is particularly interested in understanding how modular domains can be recombined in new combinations and arrangements to give rise to diverse cellular behaviors such as survival, proliferation, differentiation and tumor killing.

Dr. Daniels obtained his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland College Park in 2010, conducting undergraduate research with Dorothy Beckett, PhD. He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Duke University in 2015. Following postdoctoral training at UCSF, he joined the Department of Genetics at Stanford in 2023.