Tag Archives: Adam Eyre-Walker

Pipelines for bacterial evolutionary genomic analysis meeting in Bath

Posted on March 3, 2017 by

I attended a small, but very nice meeting last week at the University of Bath. The topic was the development of software to measure all important parameters in bacterial population genomics datasets. It was organized by Daniel Falush, who is … Continue reading →

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Rates of lateral gene transfer: high but why?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by

I just had a paper out which was an enlightening experience to write. Along with three Dutch co-authors, it was mainly a collaboration with Adam Eyre-Walker at Sussex (see this previous post). The manuscript morphed from a data paper into … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 11, 2015 by

Two weeks ago I visited collaborator Adam Eyre-Walker at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Adam and I have been working on a paper exploring what selective forces underly the rate with which bacteria take up new genes, using insights … Continue reading →

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2013 SGM Autumn Conference

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

Last week I attended the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn Conference held this year at the University of Sussex in Brighton (actually just outside of Brighton in Falmer). The main reason for going was the ‘Impact of bacteriophage in the … Continue reading →

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ODoSE: a webserver for genome-wide calculation of adaptive divergence in prokaryotes

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

I just published a paper on a user-friendly webserver for prokaryote genomics analysis with colleagues from the universities of Sussex, Wageningen and Nijmegen. The webserver is available here and the paper is freely accessible at the PLoS ONE website. From … Continue reading →

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Travelling

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

It has been a while since I last posted as I have been quite busy travelling (and Cornwall is not exactly centrally located). Two weeks ago Pawel, Tremough colleague Britt Koskella and myself went to visit Martha Clokie and her … Continue reading →

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