Building and using dated phylogenies in the presence of bacterial recombination

Xavier Didelot
Professor,School of Life Sciences,
The University of Warwick, UK

My research is concerned with understanding the way bacterial pathogens evolve,spread and cause disease. I have analysed both epidemiological and genomic datafrom a wide range of bacteria. A key aim is to develop new bioinformatics andstatistical methods that can handle the very large amounts of data madeavailable by novel high-throughput sequencing techniques. Because of theinterdisciplinary nature of my work, I have broad interests in a variety ofsubjects, including theoretical topics such as mathematical populationgenetics, Bayesian statistics or Monte-Carlo methods, and biological topicssuch as bacterial evolutionary processes or pathogen epidemiology.