Daniel Wilson's Blog

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Important: this announcement has been superceded.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...

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...