The research that is undertaken in my lab seeks to understand pathogen variation in order to answer a range of questions from how pathogens evolve, to how and why they spread in local and global outbreaks. This work has a number of labels, but broadly speaking we use genomic epidemiology, phylogenomics and population genetics approaches to answer our research questions.

Historically we have examined questions on a range of pathogens, including gastrointestinal pathogens (E. coli, Salmonella, Shigella, C. difficile) which collectively account for over a billion cases of disease around the world every year, pathogens which are particularly associated with antimicrobial resistance and viruses including HIV and Influenza.