Daniel Wilson's Blog

This week sees publication of our new paper  Identifying direct risk factors in UK Biobank via simultaneous Bayesian-frequentist model-avera...

We have published a new review article in Genome Biology contrasting machine learning and statistics in microbial genomics. This is joint w...

Helen Fryer, Nick Arning and I have posted our new preprint to arxiv . This is the first version of the paper that we have submitted for pee...

My talk given today at the 2025 Microbiology Society Conference in Liverpool: Abstract The advent of vast genomic datasets has transform...

Thanks to Jeff Chen who asked Google NotebookLM to produce this radio-style audio description of the harmonic mean p -value paper: hmp-googl...

Today we release the first full draft of the Doublethink methods paper . This is an evolution of what was originally conceived as the supple...

I will be talking at the Festival of Genomics on Wednesday 24 January about Identifying virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes in bact...

This week Nick Arning, Helen Fryer and I released two related preprints describing a new method called Doublethink, and its application to i...

This year I was invited to give the Rewley House Lecture , a multidisciplinary research talk open to all, at the Department for Continuing E...

Newly published in PLOS Biology is our work identifying genes that confer resistance to common and last-resort antibiotics in bacteria tha...

I am seeking a senior postdoc in Statistical Genetics and Infectious Disease to join my research group at the Big Data Institute, Universit...

Join us at St Hilda's College Oxford, overlooking the River Cherwell and Christ Church Meadow, for an immersive week-long residential po...

If you are interested in joining the group, please contact me ( details here ) with a brief explanation and a copy of an up-to-date CV.

The organizing committee is pleased to announce the 7th Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics Conference (ProbGen22) to be held at the Blavatni...

Two new positions are available in my Infectious Disease Genomics group at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford. A Senior Postdocto...

This study, published in October in PLOS Genetics , brings together machine learning, large bacterial isolate collections and whole genome s...

Staphylococcus aureus  is a leading cause of infectious disease deaths in all countries, with bloodstream infection leading to sepsis a majo...

In this paper, published in October in PLOS Pathogens , we discovered a novel genetic association between life-threatening invasive meningoc...

I am looking to fill two positions at the  Big Data Institute ,  Nuffield Department of Population Health ,  University of Oxford : a Data S...

An updated version of this talk given at the Nuffield Department for Population Health's annual symposium 2021:

I am seeking someone with a track record in methods development for Statistical Genomics and an interest in Infectious Disease to join the g...

An online recording of the talk about Genome-wide Association Studies of COVID-19 at the UK Biobank 2020 meeting on 23 June 2020. The full c...

This is an update on the group's research response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As an infectious disease group we have been keen to contrib...

On March 16th, we were in the interesting position of running an infectious disease course at the Big Data Institute on the day the national...

This is a presentation I gave at the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative meeting on 2nd July 2020 about using Public Health England's Se...

This year the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition was online , and included highlights and updates from previous exhibitors, among...

Published this week in Molecular Biology and Evolution , is a new paper joint with the CRyPTIC Consortium "GenomegaMap: within-species...

The closing date for applications for this post is  noon on Wednesday 15th April 2020 . We are seeking an exceptional researcher with a tr...

The correction to "The harmonic mean p-value for combining dependent tests" has been published  www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10...

—  To view a PDF version of this announcement  click here   — Important: Please update to version 3.0 of the harmonicmeanp R package...

Important: this announcement has been superceded. Please see updated correction .  I would like to issue the following correction to ...

In a new collaborative study published this week in eLife , we report a strong association between Staphylococcus aureus  that carry the P...