M-shell exeted abnormally with code 1 when using matlab-emacs with screen after disconnect and reconnect

I am set up to use matlab in matlab-emacs on a subnode of a cluster computer. I run emacs normally with

     ssh host1
     ssh node005
     emacs

and then in emacs I run matlab-shell and things generally work. I would like, however, to be able to disconnect my laptop that I use to run matlab and leave a job running. My non successful attempt has so far been to

1) run screen on node005

2) in screen run

     emacs --daemon

and then connect to it with

     emacsclient -nc

I can run matlab within the emacs client. However when I disconnect from the screen session and then reconnect, I get the message

     M-Shell exited abnormally with code 1

Why does matlab crash when I detach this screen session? How does it even know I have detached? I hope someone has suggestions, I'd really like to get this or a similar set up working.