Andrew H. Morris

Andrew H. Morris

Post-doctoral Scholar

University of Oslo

Andrew Morris is a postdoc in the Centre for Bioinformatics at the University of Oslo and a member of the Precision Psychiatry group (formerly NORMENT) at the Oslo University Hospital. His current work focuses on using health registry data and genotype data to model age of diagnosis in prostate cancer and other heritable cancers. This work has applications in precision medicine and has the potential to improve early screening and diagnosis for improved outcomes for heritable diseases.

Andrew was formerly a postdoc at the University of Oregon where he studied the heritability of the microbiome in plants and animals. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Oregon in 2022 where he worked with Brendan Bohannan. In his dissertation research, Andrew wanted to understand how variation in the composition of microorganisms in an ecosystem influence variation in ecosystem function. He was specifically interested in how land-use change could modify soil greenhouse gas emissions mediated by the microbiome in diverse ecosystems of central Africa and the Brazilian Amazon.

Andrew has broad expertise in environmental and life sciences. He specializes in statistical genetics and multivariate analysis of deep sequencing data, such as microbiome marker gene and metagenomic sequencing. He also has a background in biodiversity assessment and community ecology. His work draws on tools from quantitative genetics and experimental approaches from evolutionary biology.

Interests

  • Biostatistics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Science

Education

  • PhD Biology, 2022

    University of Oregon

  • MS Soil Science, 2017

    Penn State University

  • BS Plant Sciences, 2014

    Cornell University

Journal Articles

Belowground changes to community structure alter methane-cycling dynamics in Amazonia

Amazonian rainforest is undergoing increasing rates of deforestation, driven primarily by cattle pasture expansion. Forest-to-pasture …