Audrey Olson

Bioinformatics/Comp Biology PhD candidate @GMU_COS. MS in Nutrition.

Long term goal: boosting quality of life via molecular dynamics, & design of therapeutics.

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

This is my just-published paper, in which gene set enrichment analysis and systems biology modeling yield evidence supporting dietary choline sufficiency as a worthwhile, low risk goal, in terms of supporting sensory processing in #autistic people

https://t.co/4NN1gPi36Y

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@EmbraceTheCoda Yeah, it was!!!! 🕺💃🥳

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@wojciechkopec3 I find myself in this situation this month with some sims 😬😭🤣👍

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@drchannelldoig @DrLizAparicio @commTHRIVESlab @sstongeahmad @Jasczynski @IzidoraSkracic Congratulations, Dr.! 💙🥳

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

There is a church in our area named Ebenezer that has signs posted by the road: "Come to Ebenezer for Easter!"

And every time I drive by, I think the signs should have read, "Come to EbenEaster!"

Missed opportunity 😅🐰🐣

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

The latest just-published paper from our lab, with my labmate as first author!

This is the paper that taught me how to program in Tcl for VMD 😅

https://t.co/0aBIqBlmGq

#MolecularDynamics #CompChem #CompBio

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Just received word: a new #MolecularDynamics paper from my advisor's lab has been accepted for publication!

This paper's from an arc of our work in 2021-2022. 1st author is PhD candidate senior to me in the lab & one of the hardest workers I've ever met. 🥳🎉

#CompBio #CompChem

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@qc_punk The idea of mint and coffee together is especially unsettling to me. A battle on my tastebuds between menthol and tannins? Do not want 🤐🙅‍♀️

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Every day we stray further from God's light 🫠

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@StatGirlLAM I did a test with 2nd graders using PTC test strips to see if they were SuperTasters! Read the reviews- many science activities conducted this way with kids

Phenylthiourea (PTC) Test Paper for Genetic Taste Testing [Vial for 100 Paper Strips] https://t.co/vYcaVD6LCH

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Life imitating art 😹

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@AugensteinWTOP Wahoo! 🧡

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@ChelseaParlett My brother and I fully agree that our biggest love language is contiguous blocks of unbroken time for deep thought 😅

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Neal's rich voice has been an indelible part of my driving around the DMV with the radio on, since I moved to Virginia 22 yrs ago, just before starting college. Go, Neal!🌸

(For folks outside the area - DMV means "D.C., Maryland, & Virginia" - metro area of our nation's capital)

[Neal Augenstein @AugensteinWTOP]

A week from today is my 1st CT scan since dx of Stage IV EGFR-mutated #lungcancer. I started targeted therapy in Dec. One pill a day, cough is gone, feeling terrific. My favorite tree in the backyard is starting to bud. Spring brings hope. ❤️to all

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Spent days helping my youngest study for a test on DNA replication before her science test today at school. Then spent another couple of hours tonight helping my oldest with trig function proofs.

My doing bioinformatics and math daily has come in handy in Momtown this week 🤓

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Husband calling me on the way home from work: "I think what we need tonight is some poke bowls."

He knows our love language 🍲

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

My first time setting up and testing exchange rates in a REST based system of my own today. I keep checking the outputs waiting for something to blow up. 😂

#MolecularDynamics #CompBio #CompChem
#PhDChat #AcademicChatter

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@rnsoicher @ennasuite If there are 8 pre-you assignments and they all contribute equally modestly to the grade, do you have the option to let the 50 students pick one of those 8 to drop from factoring in to their grade? Or you by default drop the lowest scoring of the 8?

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

@qc_punk I've started using VMD smoothing windows for scicomm on our sims betwn our lab & other labs (wet labs, for example)

It doesn't help if you need very specific 2ndary structure dets, but it definitely mellows the big picture vibe for eyes of collaborators not used to watching sims

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Scientific literature about autism existed in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The 60s through 80s talked about autism through an extremely narrow diagnostic lens.

But that research context is as different from 1998 research context, as 1998 research context is from today's.

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

How would you describe literature published in 1998 with respect to how research and population in question has changed in the last 25 years?

"Early research"? "Earlier research"? How far back to you need to go before cited research becomes "early"?

#AcademicChatter #PhDChat

[Audrey Olson @primalkitchen]

Particularly, I'm thinking of autism research published in the late 90s, when diagnostic criteria, public awareness, and assessment rates were all much more constricted than they are now.

Americans in general only barely knew about autism in the 80s and 90s. A lot has changed!