About the group

Our focus is on understanding the emergence, transmission and maintenance of genetic lineages of bacteria and their role in infectious diseases. We also work extensively on general microbial ecology and evolution, by combining advanced statistical methods with large-scale genome sequencing and experiments to advance understanding about the drivers of success in bacterial populations.

Long term objectives

  • Evolutionary epidemiology for bacteria
  • Bacterial vaccine discovery and optimization
  • Development of algorithms and software for inference in simulator-based statistical models
  • Statistical methods for bacterial population genomics