Xavier Didelot
Dr Xavier Didelot
Leadership Fellow
didelot at stats.ox.ac.uk
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Biographical sketch
2010-present: Leadership Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
2007-2010: Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
2004-2007 DPhil in Statistical Genetics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
2003-2007: Life Science Interface Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford
Research interests
Stochastic models in population genetics, Bayesian statistics, Monte-Carlo methods, Bacterial evolution, Comparative genomics
About my research
My research interests are in statistical genomics applied to bacteria. I hope to develop new statistical methods for the inference of bacterial evolution that can handle the large amounts of data made available by novel high-throughput sequencing techniques. I work on the UKCRC Modernising Medical Microbiology Consortium project, which studies the evolution and transmission of health-care associated microbial pathogens.
Selected publications
X. Didelot, D. Lawson, A. Darling and D. Falush (2010). Inference of homologous recombination in bacteria using whole genome sequences. Genetics 186:1435-1449
X. Didelot, M. Achtman, J. Parkhill, N. Thomson and D. Falush (2007). A bimodal pattern of relatedness between the Salmonella Paratyphi A and Typhi genomes: convergence or divergence by homologous recombination? Genome Research 17:61-68
X. Didelot and D. Falush (2007). Inference of bacterial microevolution using multilocus sequence data. Genetics 175:1251-1266
X. Didelot, A. Darling and D. Falush (2008). Inferring genomic flux in bacteria. Genome Research 19:306-317
X. Didelot, D. Lawson and D. Falush (2009). SimMLST: simulation of multi-locus sequence typing data under a neutral model. Bioinformatics 25:1442-1444
X. Didelot and M. Maiden (2010). Impact of recombination on bacterial evolution. Trends in Microbiology 18:315-322
Link to full publication list www.xavierdidelot.xtreemhost.com/pubs.htm
Personal website www.xavierdidelot.xtreemhost.com/
Group website www.modmedmicro.ac.uk/
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