Daniel Wilson's Blog

Toxicity in nose, blood and skin bacteria . Collaborative work with Ruth Massey's group at the University of Bath taking forward a ...

Our new open access paper Rapid host switching in generalist Campylobacter strains erodes the signal for tracing human infections was publi...

This week sees publication of our paper New Routes to Phylogeography: a Bayesian Structured Coalescent Approximation in PLoS Genetics . P...

This week sees the launch of Microbial Genomics , a new open access journal from the Society for General Microbiology . Here's an ex...

Some photos from this summer's Science Museum Lates event with the Royal Society and the Cheltenham Science Festival . Thanks to every...

For World Health Day 2015, the group's research into food-borne campylobacter infection was featured on the Nuffield Department of Medi...

Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, mediated by transformation, transduction or conjugation, can result in gain, loss and replacement of...

Published this week in mBio , Jessica Hedge's new paper " Bacterial phylogenetic inference is robust to recombination but demograph...

Earlier this week members of the group represented the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the Cheltenham Science Festival with our Mod...

This week published in Nature Communications we have a new open access paper looking at what drives variability in rates of recombination...

This week the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium at Oxford published the findings of a six-year study into the transmission of the...

The position of Postdoctoral Scientist is available in my group to lead research on the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society funded project Sta...

I am pleased to report that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society funded Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. The subject of the ...

Whole genome sequencing in near-to-real time is set to become a routine tool for outbreak detection by hospital and public health microbiolo...

Given its notoriety as one of the world's major causes of infection-related deaths, it may come as a surprise that one in three health...

Today my student Bethany Dearlove has her first paper published, called Coalescent inference for infectious disease: meta-analysis of he...

These positions are now closed. There are currently seven posts advertised to join the Pathogen Genomics group at the Nuffield Department o...

This position is now closed. A prestigious James Martin Fellowship funded by the Oxford Martin School is available in my research group fo...

Published today in PLoS Pathogens :

The software gammaMap - which implements the analyses developed in Wilson, Hernandez, Andolfatto and Przeworski (2011) PLoS Genetics 7 : ...

My colleagues Xavier Didelot , Rory Bowden , Tim Peto , Derrick Crook and I have just published a review online ahead of print in Nature R...

Post-doc positions in Pathogen Genomics are available in my group and Derrick Crook's lab. We will be hiring people to work on pathogen ...

Today in PNAS Early Edition my colleagues and I have a paper published reporting the genome evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during the ...

Along with my colleagues Xavier Didelot , Ed Feil , Eduardo Rocha and Howard Ochman , I will be organizing a symposium on Microbial Genome ...

I am pleased to report that my new paper "A population genetics-phylogenetics approach to inferring natural selection" is publishe...

Richard Everitt and Bethany Dearlove, postdoctoral scientist and D.Phil. student in my lab have posted their profiles and research interest...

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...