Alexandra Phillips

Oregon State University | Microbiology | Master's Student | Black Lives Matter | Stay Home | Get Vaccinated

[Moved on to @parafilmm.bsky.social @ParafilmM]

It's science!

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

I've used a Mac all through college and now my first real job out of college uses Windows computers and Microsoft Teams 😭 #notawindowsfan

[Maude David Lab @MDavidLab]

Thread on @ChristineTataru new #R package for applying #embedding techniques to #microbiome data

#bioinformatics #microbialecology

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

Congrats Austin!!

[Maude David Lab @MDavidLab]

Congratulations to our Research Assistant, former undergraduate researcher, and one of the very first David Lab members Austin Martin on his acceptance to medical school at @OHSUSOM! We're all very proud of you Austin!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

Dr. David has also been awarded an SBIR phase 1&2 by @NIDAnews in collaboration with @SecondGenome and @StanfordMed, and recently funded by @NSF for her lab’s work on natural language processing #NLP and microbiome datasets
https://t.co/kbfx4GkEc2

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

In 2020, Dr. David was awarded the Breaking Barriers in Education award for her impact through teaching and #mentoring on paving the way for #genderequity.

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The David Lab is currently made up of 4 PhD students, 2 Masters students, one research assistant, and a team of three undergraduate students: https://t.co/v9cbKS7gPb

@ChristineTataru @dna_heligrace @AcetylCoAlex @nazbijar @Carolin01707596

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The David Lab also study how changing the microbiome alters behavior in an ASD mouse model in male/female animals. The lab is also pioneering new methods for co-culture of vagal neurons/enteroendocrine cells to identify bacteria that modulate vagal responses with the Hokanson lab

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

They showed that dietary and lifestyle features were explanatory of ASD phenotype using logistic regression. Leveraging longitudinal behavior questionnaires, they identified 11 ASVs associated with changes in reported anxiety over time within and across all individuals.

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The group recently published the results of a large longitudinal study on the microbial structure in children with autism compared to non ASD diagnosed siblings: https://t.co/vUAyi3YwUL.

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

Dr. David's interest lies in using machine learning, more specifically natural language processing to extract information from public datasets and produce more generalizable prediction models: https://t.co/6lPgYKgaz7

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The lab work on identifying bottlenecks in microbiome data exploration and develop new biocomputing methods to improve sequence data annotation & analysis.

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

The David lab study how gut microbiota can modulate behavior via the #GutBrainAxis+biocomputing methods to utilize massive #microbiome datasets. They use an interdisciplinary approach incl. mouse models, in vitro cell culture, anaerobic bacteria culture, bees and #machinelearning

[Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol]

It's #ECRinFocus time! In this week’s spotlight, meet Dr. Maude David @MDavidLab @Mo2Dav, an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University @OregonState @OSUScience @OSUPharmacy since January 2018

#womeninSTEM #womeninscience

[Ariana Elena Castillo @arianaelena97]

What sucks about being consistently burnt out is that a rest day or weekend isn’t enough and I can’t self care my way out of it. If you’re also struggling with this, know you’re not alone ❤️

#AcademicMentalHealth

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

I love seeing peoples desk setups 🖥 #desksetup #wfh #gradstudentlife

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

Time to start being a real adult and twitter-fy my life... My first authorship from December 2021! https://t.co/HO4TpZM6SY extremely greatful to the team and authors for allowing me to be part of the process

[Microbiome Virtual International Forum @MicrobiomeVIF]

🦠 Program #MVIF #6 !🦠

⭐️Keynote: @SherlockpHolmes
⭐️Selected talks: @doyouseewhy @ClareLou9 @michaelkuyu
⭐️OA highlights: @Sree_sreeram91 @Matt_Snelson

Looking forward to all this talks! 😎

⬇️Free registration⬇️
https://t.co/ue0WMYAmda

See you there, #microbiome people!

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

@heycurlytop I am so behind on this, but I've heard stellar things about Joyful Noise for boarding. They are really well priced too!

[Alexandra Phillips @AcetylCoAlex]

@dna_heligrace Omg yes! Though the song You Belong With Me was more annoying than when I was in middle school 😆