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Nathan D Olson
Summary
Nathan D Olson double majored in cell and molecular biology and marine science from the University of Hawaii Hilo. He went on to get a Masters in microbiology from the University of New Hampshire in 2010, where his research focused on the coral microbiome.
He went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in bioinformatics, with a research focus on developing a framework for assessing marker gene sequencing data analysis methods. Nathan started working at NIST in the lab in 2011, working on reference materials and standards for biothreat detection. He received a Commerce Gold Medal award for his contributions to this project in 2020. He also developed a reproducible pipeline for characterizing microbial genomic DNA reference materials for whole genome sequencing. Currently, Nathan is working on the Genome In A Bottle project where his work focuses on improving reference material characterizations, data management, and reproducible data analyses.