DrThibautJombart

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.

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