Hiking up to the Matterhorn in Switzerland!
Name: Matt Byrne
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS Applied Physics, BS Economics – University of Utah
Research Interests/Project: Regional quantification of collagen and laminin/fibrin at the vitreoretinal interface
Interests outside of Research: Outdoor adventures! Soccer and the occasional video game
Tell us something about yourself that otherwise we wouldn’t know or guess: I moonlight as an amateur sommelier
What can’t you live without: Easy access to nature – learned and reinforced whenever I travel to big cities
I’ve always wanted to: Journey to Mars
Favorite quote: “Too weird to live, and too rare to die”