Statistical methods for whole-genome phenotype mapping in bacterial populations

Daniel is an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford, where his laboratory investigates pathogen evolution and epidemiology via whole-genome sequencing. He is a collaborator in the Modernising Medical Microbiology Consortium, whose aim is to harness genomics for microbiological diagnostics and infection control in hospitals. Daniel's work currently focuses on the identification of genetic variants in pathogen genomes that explain differences in the frequency and severity of infections, particularly hospital-associated infections including Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile and norovirus.