Daniel Wilson's Blog

Two papers that I co-authored with colleagues at Lancaster and Massey Universities appear this month in the October 2010 issue of Epidemiolo...

This month saw the 2010 Infectious Disease Genomics & Global Health meeting at Hinxton, which attracted a good number of people involved...

Selection on standing variation, soft sweeps, parallel adaptation: these alternatives to the population genetics paradigm of the S-shaped se...

At this year's Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting in Lyon I presented ongoing work estimating the distribution of fitn...

I'm pleased to have been elected to membership of the SCR at St. John's College , my alma mater. The college is an important aspect ...

These positions are now closed. Advertised today in Nature and on Thursday in New Scientist are two positions in my lab. I am looking for ...

Today I had an extraordinary experience, precipitated by my visit to the British Museum on something of a whim. Listening to the Radio 4 ser...

What is the source of the common food poisoning pathogen Campylobacter jejuni was the subject of a paper published in September last year ...

In Variation of the factor H-binding protein in Neisseria meningitidis , Carina Brehony in Martin Maiden's lab at Oxford investigated a ...

My blog entries have lapsed since the summer while I have attempted to press on with various projects to tie up as much as possible by the e...

I spent the beginning of the month at the SMBE (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) conference in Iowa City. It was a good chance ...

On Friday Chris Spencer gave the PPS ( Pritchard / Przeworski / Stephens ) lab meeting as part of a trip to Chicago. Chris talked about his...

As part of a recent trip to the University of Edinburgh to visit Andrew Rambaut , I gave a talk on some work of mine published in the Februa...

All evolutionary biologists wishing to make use of omegaMap now have access to a high performance parallel computing cluster via the intern...

Rounding off a hectic end to 2008 was a trip to visit Molly, currently on sabbatical in New York city. Joanna and I flew out to spend the f...

Each Wednesday the Ecology and Evolution department run a journal club called Noon Illumination, and this week I volunteered to lead discuss...

Finally, it's out! The main piece of work to come out of my two-year period as Research Associate at Lancaster University is published t...

The final days in Paris were taken up by revisions to a paper submitted in April to PLoS Genetics . With luck the revisions will be accepted...

My position at the University of Chicago is funded by a grant awarded to Molly by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to detect the sig...

Most of my friends (and maybe even my colleagues) don't have much idea of what I do day-to-day. That's the subject of this blog. Mod...