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Professor of Computational Biology at UCL
François Balloux is the director of the UCL Genetics Institute,
[1] and a professor of
computational biology at
University College London.
[2]
Early life and education
Balloux earned a master's degree in 1996 and a doctorate in 2000 from the
University of Lausanne. He then completed postdoctoral research at the
University of Edinburgh.
[2]
Career
Balloux was an assistant professor at the
University of Cambridge, between 2002 and 2007, before taking a position as an associate professor in infectious disease epidemiology at
Imperial College London. In 2012, Balloux became a full professor at
University College London.
[2]
Research
Balloux's research lies at the interface of
genomics,
epidemiology,
evolution and
ecology. The main focus of his work is on the reconstruction of disease outbreaks and epidemics of human and wildlife
pathogens,
[3]
[4]
[5] and the emergence of
antimicrobial resistance.
[6]
[7]
[8] He has also engaged in research on the emergence and spread of drug resistance in
tuberculosis,
[9]
[10] and
Gram-negative bacteria,
[11]
[12] and the distribution of zoonotic pathogens in
vertebrates.
[13]
Balloux participated in curating a dataset of
SARS-CoV-2 genetic samples early on in the pandemic.
[14]
References
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^ UCL (2019-02-08).
"UCL Genetics Institute". UCL Division of Biosciences. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
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b
c
"Professor Francois Balloux | UCL Division of Biosciences - UCL - London's Global University". ucl.ac.uk. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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^ Wang, Ruobing; van Dorp, Lucy; Shaw, Liam P.; Bradley, Phelim; Wang, Qi; Wang, Xiaojuan; Jin, Longyang; Zhang, Qing; Liu, Yuqing; Rieux, Adrien; Dorai-Schneiders, Thamarai (2018-03-21).
"The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 1179.
Bibcode:
2018NatCo...9.1179W.
doi:
10.1038/s41467-018-03205-z.
ISSN
2041-1723.
PMC
5862964.
PMID
29563494.
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^ O’Hanlon, Simon J.; Rieux, Adrien; Farrer, Rhys A.; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Waldman, Bruce; Bataille, Arnaud; Kosch, Tiffany A.; Murray, Kris A.; Brankovics, Balázs; Fumagalli, Matteo; Martin, Michael D. (2018-05-11).
"Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines". Science. 360 (6389): 621–627.
Bibcode:
2018Sci...360..621O.
doi:
10.1126/science.aar1965.
ISSN
0036-8075.
PMC
6311102.
PMID
29748278.
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^
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^ Balloux, Francois; Brønstad Brynildsrud, Ola; van Dorp, Lucy; Shaw, Liam P.; Chen, Hongbin; Harris, Kathryn A.; Wang, Hui; Eldholm, Vegard (2018).
"From Theory to Practice: Translating Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) into the Clinic". Trends in Microbiology. 26 (12): 1035–1048.
doi:
10.1016/j.tim.2018.08.004.
PMC
6249990.
PMID
30193960.
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^ Shaw, Liam P.; Bassam, Hassan; Barnes, Chris P.; Walker, A. Sarah; Klein, Nigel; Balloux, Francois (2019).
"Modelling microbiome recovery after antibiotics using a stability landscape framework". The ISME Journal. 13 (7): 1845–1856.
doi:
10.1038/s41396-019-0392-1.
ISSN
1751-7370.
PMC
6591120.
PMID
30877283.
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^ Eldholm, Vegard; Rieux, Adrien; Monteserin, Johana; Lopez, Julia Montana; Palmero, Domingo; Lopez, Beatriz; Ritacco, Viviana; Didelot, Xavier; Balloux, Francois (2016-08-09). Jit, Mark (ed.).
"Impact of HIV co-infection on the evolution and transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis". eLife. 5: e16644.
doi:
10.7554/eLife.16644.
ISSN
2050-084X.
PMC
4978521.
PMID
27502557.
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^ Eldholm, Vegard; Monteserin, Johana; Rieux, Adrien; Lopez, Beatriz; Sobkowiak, Benjamin; Ritacco, Viviana; Balloux, Francois (November 2015).
"Four decades of transmission of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak strain". Nature Communications. 6 (1): 7119.
Bibcode:
2015NatCo...6.7119E.
doi:
10.1038/ncomms8119.
ISSN
2041-1723.
PMC
4432642.
PMID
25960343.
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^ Eldholm, Vegard; Rieux, Adrien; Monteserin, Johana; Lopez, Julia Montana; Palmero, Domingo; Lopez, Beatriz; Ritacco, Viviana; Didelot, Xavier; Balloux, Francois (2016-08-09).
"Impact of HIV co-infection on the evolution and transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis". eLife. 5: e16644.
doi:
10.7554/eLife.16644.
ISSN
2050-084X.
PMC
4978521.
PMID
27502557.
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^ Wang, Ruobing; van Dorp, Lucy; Shaw, Liam P.; Bradley, Phelim; Wang, Qi; Wang, Xiaojuan; Jin, Longyang; Zhang, Qing; Liu, Yuqing; Rieux, Adrien; Dorai-Schneiders, Thamarai (December 2018).
"The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 1179.
Bibcode:
2018NatCo...9.1179W.
doi:
10.1038/s41467-018-03205-z.
ISSN
2041-1723.
PMC
5862964.
PMID
29563494.
-
^ Acman, Mislav; van Dorp, Lucy; Santini, Joanne M.; Balloux, Francois (December 2020).
"Large-scale network analysis captures biological features of bacterial plasmids". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 2452.
Bibcode:
2020NatCo..11.2452A.
doi:
10.1038/s41467-020-16282-w.
ISSN
2041-1723.
PMC
7229196.
PMID
32415210.
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^ Shaw, Liam P.; Wang, Alethea D.; Dylus, David; Meier, Magda; Pogacnik, Grega; Dessimoz, Christophe; Balloux, François (2020).
"The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates". Molecular Ecology. 29 (17): 3361–3379.
doi:
10.1111/mec.15463.
ISSN
1365-294X.
PMID
32390272.
S2CID
218586409.
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^ van Dorp, Lucy; Acman, Mislav; Richard, Damien; Shaw, Liam P.; Ford, Charlotte E.; Ormond, Louise; Owen, Christopher J.; Pang, Juanita; Tan, Cedric C. S.; Boshier, Florencia A. T.; Ortiz, Arturo Torres; Balloux, François (2020-09-01).
"Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2". Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 83: 104351.
doi:
10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104351.
ISSN
1567-1348.
PMC
7199730.
PMID
32387564.
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