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Researcher and Consultant | Writer | 9 + years experience experimental design, data analysis, and technical writing

Profile Summary

I am a postdoctoral researcher specializing in simulation modeling of ecological and evolutionary systems. I have extensive experience with next generation sequencing and am competent with bioinformatics, programming (linux, R, c++), and wet-lab molecular work. I am an excellent writer and have authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and funded proposals. I also have extensive experiencing helping my colleagues and students improve their technical and scientific writing.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ★ Computer Simulation/Computational Modeling
• ★ Microbial Ecology
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Molecular Ecology
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Ecology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting

Research Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brigham Young University

July 2020 - Present

Education

PhD (Biology)

Brigham Young University

September 2013 - July 2019

Bachelor's (Microbiology)

Brigham Young University

September 2009 - April 2013

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Andrew R. Thompson, Stefan Geisen, Byron J. Adams(2020). Shotgun metagenomics reveal a diverse assemblage of protists in a model Antarctic soil ecosystem . Environmental Microbiology. 22. (11). p. 4620--4632. Wiley

Andrew R. Thompson, Gareth S. Powell, Byron J. Adams(2019). Provisional checklist of terrestrial heterotrophic protists from Antarctica . Antarctic Science. 31. (6). p. 287--303. Cambridge University Press ({CUP})

Andrew Thompson, Gajendra Shrestha, Richard Robison, Larry L. St. Clair(2015). Letharia vulpina, a vulpinic acid containing lichen, targets cell membrane and cell division processes in methicillin-{resistantStaphylococcus} aureus . Pharmaceutical Biology. 54. (3). p. 413--418. Informa {UK} Limited

Thompson Andrew, G. Cates Rex, Brabazon Holly, McDonald Sidney, Lawrence Michael, Williams Steven, Peniallilo Pablo, Alfonso Fuentes Soria J., V. Espinoza Luis, Villagran Ernesto, et al. (2014). Activities of Guatemalan medicinal plants against cancer cell lines and selected microbes: Evidence for their conservation . Journal of Medicinal Plants Research.

(2013). Evaluation of the activity of Guatemalan medicinal plants against cancer cell lines and microbes. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research.