Andrew Nelson

About

Andrew Nelson is an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Biology Section, and a faculty member at the Boyce Thompson Institute. His research employs comparative genomic, bioinformatic, and molecular approaches to better understand how plants regulate their stress responses at the RNA level and to determine the conservation of these responses across different contexts. His work focuses on comparative and high-throughput bioinformatics approaches to plant transcriptome research, contributing to the understanding of plant stress mechanisms and their genetic regulation.

Research topics

• Biology
• Genetics
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Data science
• Engineering ethics
• Evolutionary biology
• Botany
• Engineering
• Geography

Selected publications

• Plant science decadal vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future

  Plant Direct · 2020 · 64 citations

  Plants, and the biological systems around them, are key to the future health of the planet and its inhabitants. The Plant Science Decadal Vision 2020-2030 frames our ability to perform vital and far-reaching research in plant systems sciences, essential to how we value participants and apply emerging technologies. We outline a comprehensive vision for addressing some of our most pressing global problems through discovery, practical applications, and education. The Decadal Vision was developed by…

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• Biased Gene Retention in the Face of Introgression Obscures Species Relationships

  Genome Biology and Evolution · 2020 · 52 citations

  Phylogenomic analyses are recovering previously hidden histories of hybridization, revealing the genomic consequences of these events on the architecture of extant genomes. We applied phylogenomic techniques and several complementary statistical tests to show that introgressive hybridization appears to have occurred between close relatives of Arabidopsis, resulting in cytonuclear discordance and impacting our understanding of species relationships in the group. The composition of introgressed an…

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• Identification and functional annotation of long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Brassicaceae

  The Plant Cell · 2022 · 51 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are a large yet enigmatic class of eukaryotic transcripts that can have critical biological functions. The wealth of RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data available for plants provides the opportunity to implement a harmonized identification and annotation effort for lincRNAs that enables cross-species functional and genomic comparisons as well as prioritization of functional candidates. In this study, we processed >24 Tera base pairs of RNA-seq data from >16,00…

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• EDC3 phosphorylation regulates growth and invasion through controlling P‐body formation and dynamics

  EMBO Reports · 2021 · 45 citations

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• <i>Syntrichia ruralis</i> : emerging model moss genome reveals a conserved and previously unknown regulator of desiccation in flowering plants

  New Phytologist · 2024-02-28 · 22 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  Water scarcity, resulting from climate change, poses a significant threat to ecosystems. Syntrichia ruralis, a dryland desiccation-tolerant moss, provides valuable insights into survival of water-limited conditions. We sequenced the genome of S. ruralis, conducted transcriptomic analyses, and performed comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses with existing genomes and transcriptomes, including with the close relative S. caninervis. We took a genetic approach to characterize the role of an…

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Recent grants

• TRTech-PGR: Identification and characterization of stress-responsive and evolutionary conserved epitranscriptomic modification sites in plant transcriptomes.

  NSF · $2.4M · 2020–2025

• MINE-PGR: Mining public RNA-seq data to identify and annotate long non-coding RNAs in fifteen diverse angiosperms

  NSF · $486k · 2018–2020

• MINE-PGR: Mining public RNA-seq data to identify and annotate long non-coding RNAs in fifteen diverse angiosperms

  NSF · $224k · 2019–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Liang Yu

  Cornell University

  91 shared

• Hayley Sussman

  84 shared

• Maryam Rahmati Ishka

  Lanzhou University

  83 shared

• Mark Tester

  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  75 shared

• Miguel A. Piñeros

  Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health

  75 shared

• Eric Craft

  Cornell University

  75 shared

• Georgia Drakakaki

  Plant (United States)

  74 shared

• Łukasz Jaremko

  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  74 shared

Labs

• Andrew Nelson's LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Biochemistry

  Texas A&M University

  2012

• BS, Biology

  Southwestern Oklahoma State University

  2006

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