François Balloux
EducationUniversity of Lausanne
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisGene Flow in Natural Populations: From Panmixia to Speciation (2000)
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/francois-balloux

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

  1. ↑ UCL (2019-02-08). "UCL Genetics Institute". UCL Division of Biosciences. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  2. 1 2 3 "Professor Francois Balloux | UCL Division of Biosciences - UCL - London's Global University". ucl.ac.uk. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Eldholm, Vegard; Pettersson, John H.-O.; Brynildsrud, Ola B.; Kitchen, Andrew; Rasmussen, Erik Michael; Lillebaek, Troels; Rønning, Janne O.; Crudu, Valeriu; Mengshoel, Anne Torunn; Debech, Nadia; Alfsnes, Kristian (2016-11-29). "Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (48): 13881–13886. doi:10.1073/pnas.1611283113. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5137683. PMID 27872285.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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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