Dr Sion Bayliss
PhD, BSc
Current positions
Lecturer in Endemic, Enzootic and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Bristol Veterinary School
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Research interests
My research programme focuses on the evolutionary drivers behind the emergence of pathogens in the public health and sustainable food production sectors. I am a One Health researcher who specialises in the bioinformatics analysis of large bacterial genome datasets, with particular focus on the evolutionary dynamics which underpin the emergence of virulent behaviour in bacterial pathogens.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Convergent evolution of Enterobacteriaceae in epidemiological networks with high antimicrobial use
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
02/02/2021 to 30/11/2024
Publications
Selected publications
12/04/2023Rapid geographical source attribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis genomes using hierarchical machine learning
eLife
PIRATE: A fast and scalable pangenomics toolbox for clustering diverged orthologues in bacteria
GigaScience
Genome evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity in avian Escherichia coli
Nature Communications
Recent publications
01/06/2024Epistasis, core-genome disharmony, and adaptation in recombining bacteria
mBio
Machine learning to attribute the source of Campylobacter infections in the United States
Journal of Infection
Genomics of Re-Emergent Aeromonas salmonicida in Atlantic Salmon Outbreaks
Microorganisms
Rapid geographical source attribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis genomes using hierarchical machine learning
eLife
Host ecology regulates interspecies recombination in bacteria of the genus Campylobacter
eLife