Summary
I am a biometrician working on statistical genetics of pathogen populations. I am currently working as a research associate with Neil Ferguson, Christophe Fraser and Simon Cauchemez. My work aims to develop novel statistical approaches for extracting information from pathogen genomes and gain insights into the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious diseases. The methodological approaches I use include multivariate analysis, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, graph theory, and phylogenetics. I am also interested in using simulations to understand which and how biological processes shape the genetic diversity observed in biological populations.
I am also extensively involved with the development of free software for the analysis of genetic and epidemiological data. I have recently organized a R hackathon on disease outbreak modelling using molecular data, hosted by the MRC Center for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling in January 2013
I am author or contributor for the following R packages:
- adegenet (author): multivariate analysis for genetic/genomic data
- adephylo (author): tools for testing and describing the phylogenetic signal
- geoGraph (author): large-scale modelling of spatial data
- ade4 (contributor): multivariate analysis, graphics, spatial statistics
- phylobase (contributor): handling and analyses of phylogenetic comparative data
- sedaR (contributor): spatial statistics for ecological data
- outbreaker (author): Bayesian reconstruction of disease outbreaks using genomic data
- epibase (author): basic tools for the disease outbreak analysis
More information is available from my webpage.
Publications
Journals
Jit M, Jombart T, Nightingale ES, et al., 2020, Estimating number of cases and spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using critical care admissions, United Kingdom, February to March 2020, Eurosurveillance, Vol:25, ISSN:1025-496X, Pages:6-10
Jombart T, Jarvis CI, Mesfin S, et al., 2020, The cost of insecurity: from flare-up to control of a major Ebola virus disease hotspot during the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2019, Eurosurveillance, Vol:25, ISSN:1560-7917, Pages:19-22
Jombart T, van Zandvoort K, Russell TW, et al., 2020, Inferring the number of COVID-19 cases from recently reported deaths., Wellcome Open Res, Vol:5, ISSN:2398-502X
Dighe A, Jombart T, Van Kerkhove MD, et al., 2019, A systematic review of MERS-CoV seroprevalence and RNA prevalence in dromedary camels: implications for animal vaccination, Epidemics, Vol:29, ISSN:1755-4365
Thompson R, Stockwin J, van Gaalen R, et al., 2019, Improved inference of time-varying reproduction numbers during infectious disease outbreaks, Epidemics, Vol:29, ISSN:1755-4365, Pages:1-11