Theodore Nelson

Theodore Nelson (CC ‘24) used to serve as the President of the Activities Board for the 2023-2024 academic year, having previously been Treasurer (2022-2023) and Academic Representative (2021-2023). His engagement within undergraduate student life is multifaceted, bridging the humanities and natural sciences. He is the President of Systems Biology Initiative, the Space Microbiology Co-Lead in Columbia Space Initiative, the Treasurer for the Terence Cardinal Cooke At Your Service Volunteer Program and a Crisis Director for Columbia’s High School Model United Nations Conferences, hosted by the Columbia International Relations Council and Association. As a member of ABC, he is excited by the large influx of new groups within the Academic category, and the subsequent expansion in academic-based debate and programming within the post-COVID campus environment. 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Nelson, T.M.; Ghosh, S.; Postler, T.S. L-RAPiT: A Cloud-Based Computing Pipeline for the Analysis of Long-Read RNA Sequencing Data. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 15851. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415851.

Jones, C.; et al. The SpaceX Inspiration4 Mission: biomedical research, multi-omics, cognitive, and physiological metrics from the first civilian orbital spaceflight. Nature. 2023, [accepted]

Grigorev, K.; Nelson, T.M.; Overbey, E.; et al. Direct RNA sequencing of astronauts reveals spaceflight-associated epitranscriptome changes and stress-related transcriptional responses. Nature Communications. 2023, [accepted]

Overbey, E.; et al. The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA): A comprehensive data resource and biobank for astronauts. Nature. 2023, [in revision]

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Nelson, T.M.; From Research to Researcher: How Collaboration Forms a Scientific Mind. Columbia Undergraduate Research Blog. 2022, [link] 

Nelson, T.M.; Glass Half Full or Empty: Illuminating the Human Transcriptome. RCSS Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. 5, Pg. 10, 2023, [link]

Nelson, T.M.; From Research to Researcher: Producing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable Data. Columbia Undergraduate Research Blog. 2023, [link]