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

Published on Friday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA , "The harmonic mean p -value for combining dependent tests...

How fast do bacteria grow outside the laboratory? This simple question is very difficult to address directly, because it is near-impossible ...

This position is now closed An opportunity has arisen for a D.Phil.  ( Ph.D. ) place on the BBSRC -funded Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscien...

Next week researchers from the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium, collaborating groups and I will exhibit the Resistance is Futile...

These positions are now closed As part of the move to the Big Data Institute , two new postdoctoral positions funded by the Robertson Found...

From April we have moved to the Big Data Institute , Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford . The group is ...

Published this month in eLife , our new paper on the evolution and adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during infection. This study sho...

Work from our group has been recognised in the PLoS Computational Biology 2017 Research Prizes. SCOTTI , which infers transmission routes f...

An insight article with Ruth Massey on John Lees' and Stephen Bentley's new paper was published in eLife on Friday: Streptococcus...

In a preprint released today on Biorxiv I report a new method for improving the sensitivity to detect statistical signals by averaging over...

New paper published today in PLoS Computational Biology : Understanding how infectious disease spreads and where it originates is essentia...

I am offering two PhD projects as part of the annual Nuffield Department of Medicine Prize Studentship competition: Real-time detection of...

In the September issue of Trends in Microbiology , Mark Smeltzer casts the spotlight on the story of rsp , a virulence regulator in Staphyl...

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Dr Nicole Stoesser, Prof. Derrick Crook, myself and colleagues in Oxford are seeking a postdoc in Microbial Genomics with statistics skills ...

Published today in PNAS Early Edition , our new paper that reveals naturally occurring mutations in the poorly-described rsp gene of Stap...

We are recruiting for a Postdoctoral Scientist in Statistical Genomics working on Antimicrobial Resistance ( AMR ) gene discovery and focu...

In a new paper published this week in Nature Microbiology , we report the performance of genome wide association studies (GWAS) in bacteria ...

The Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium has announced a new worldwide collaboration called CRyPTIC to speed up diagnosis of antibio...

Recently got back from the SMBE Satellite meeting on Pathogen Genomics in Japan. The organizers did a fantastic job and the talks were grea...

Our new review of what genomics has taught us about Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens has been published in Nature Reviews Micro...

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...