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2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Microbiology

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106
Citations
44910
World Ranking
296
National Ranking
39

Genetics

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103
Citations
41414
World Ranking
678
National Ranking
101

Medicine

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105
Citations
44476
World Ranking
6726
National Ranking
652

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Mark Achtman is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Food Science, Ecology, Genetics, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a variety of areas, including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Oral microbiology and periodontitis research

Recent publications showcase contributions to understanding bacterial genomics and epidemiology. These include the following:

  • "Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process," 2020, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Accurate reconstruction of bacterial pan- and core genomes with PEPPAN," 2020, published in Genome Research
  • "HierCC: a multi-level clustering scheme for population assignments based on core genome MLST," 2021, published in Bioinformatics
  • "Genomic diversity of Salmonella enterica - The UoWUCC 10K genomes project," 2020, published in Wellcome Open Research
  • "Genomic diversity of Salmonella enterica - The UoWUCC 10K genomes project," 2021, published in Wellcome Open Research

Frequent coauthors in Achtman's work include Zhemin Zhou, Jane Charlesworth, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, William Tyne, and Alexandra Uesbeck.

Common publication venues reflect the focus of the research and include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Genome Research

In recognition of their contributions to science, Achtman was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Jane A. Bygraves;Edward Feil;Giovanna Morelli

  • Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

    Thierry Wirth;Daniel Falush;Ruiting Lan;Frances M Colles

  • Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

    Mark Achtman;Kerstin Zurth;Giovanna Morelli;Gabriela Torrea

  • An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

    Bodo Linz;Francois Balloux;Yoshan Moodley;Andrea Manica

  • Traces of human migrations in Helicobacter pylori populations

    Daniel Falush;Thierry Wirth;Bodo Linz;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • Comparative analysis of the genome sequences of Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica.

    Julian Parkhill;Mohammed Sebaihia;Andrew Preston;Lee D Murphy

  • The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

    Zhemin Zhou;Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Khaled Mohamed;Yulei Fan

  • GrapeTree : visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

    Zhemin Zhou;Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Martin J. Sergeant;Nina Luhmann

  • Complete DNA sequence of a serogroup A strain of Neisseria meningitidis Z2491

    J Parkhill;M Achtman;K D James;S D Bentley

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica

    Mark Achtman;John Wain;John Wain;François Xavier Weill;Satheesh Nair;Satheesh Nair

  • Free recombination within Helicobacter pylori.

    Sebastian Suerbaum;John Maynard Smith;Khairun Bapumia;Giovanna Morelli

  • Microbial diversity and the genetic nature of microbial species.

    Mark Achtman;Michael Wagner

  • Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

    Giovanna Morelli;Yajun Song;Yajun Song;Camila J Mazzoni;Mark Eppinger

  • Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis

    Mark Achtman;Giovanna Morelli;Peixuan Zhu;Thierry Wirth

  • Epidemic multiple drug resistant Salmonella Typhimurium causing invasive disease in sub-Saharan Africa have a distinct genotype

    Robert A. Kingsley;Chisomo L. Msefula;Nicholas R. Thomson;Samuel Kariuki;Samuel Kariuki

  • High-throughput sequencing provides insights into genome variation and evolution in Salmonella Typhi

    Kathryn E. Holt;Julian Parkhill;Camila J. Mazzoni;Philippe Roumagnac

  • Evolution, Population Structure, and Phylogeography of Genetically Monomorphic Bacterial Pathogens

    Mark Achtman

  • A genomic overview of the population structure of Salmonella.

    Nabil-Fareed Alikhan;Zhemin Zhou;Martin J. Sergeant;Mark Achtman

  • Six widespread bacterial clones among Escherichia coli K1 isolates.

    M Achtman;A Mercer;B Kusecek;A Pohl

  • A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

    Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

  • Recombination and clonal groupings within Helicobacter pylori from different geographical regions.

    M Achtman;T Azuma;D E Berg;Y Ito

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhemin Zhou
Zhemin Zhou University of Warwick
Giovanna Morelli
Giovanna Morelli Max Planck Society
Christopher Quince
Christopher Quince University of Warwick
François-Xavier Weill
François-Xavier Weill Institut Pasteur
Sebastian Suerbaum
Sebastian Suerbaum Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel Falush
Daniel Falush Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
John Wain
John Wain University of East Anglia
Xavier Didelot
Xavier Didelot University of Warwick
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute

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