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Samuel K. Sheppard

Samuel K. Sheppard

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Biology and Biochemistry

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59
Citations
11957
World Ranking
12581
National Ranking
978

Overview

Samuel K. Sheppard is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine. Within these disciplines, Sheppard has contributed extensively to subfields including Molecular Biology, Food Science, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics such as:

  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Sheppard's research has been published repeatedly in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbial Genomics, Nature Communications, mBio, and Access Microbiology. Specifically, they have published 18 papers in bioRxiv, 12 in Microbial Genomics, 4 in Nature Communications, and smaller numbers in mBio and Access Microbiology.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Sheppard include:

  • Genome evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity in avian Escherichia coli, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Agricultural intensification and the evolution of host specialism in the enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Next-generation microbiology: from comparative genomics to gene function, 2021, Genome Biology
  • A 500-year tale of co-evolution, adaptation, and virulence: Helicobacter pylori in the Americas, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Campylobacter jejuni genotypes are associated with post-infection irritable bowel syndrome in humans, 2021, Communications Biology

Throughout their career, Sheppard has collaborated frequently with fellow researchers including Ben Pascoe, Evangelos Mourkas, Matthew D. Hitchings, Jessica Calland, and Sion Bayliss. These collaborations have resulted in numerous co-authored works advancing the study of microbial genomics and infectious diseases.

Best Publications

  • Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain.

    Keith A. Jolley;Carly M. Bliss;Julia S. Bennett;Holly B. Bratcher

  • Campylobacter Genotyping to Determine the Source of Human Infection

    Samuel K. Sheppard;John F. Dallas;Norval J. C. Strachan;Marian MacRae

  • Advances in molecular ecology: tracking trophic links through predator–prey food‐webs

    S. K. Sheppard;J. D. Harwood

  • Genome-wide association study identifies vitamin B5 biosynthesis as a host specificity factor in Campylobacter

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Xavier Didelot;Guillaume Meric;Alicia Torralbo

  • Detection of secondary predation by PCR analyses of the gut contents of invertebrate generalist predators.

    Samuel Keir Sheppard;J. Bell;K. D. Sunderland;J. Fenlon

  • Convergence of Campylobacter species: implications for bacterial evolution

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Noel D. McCarthy;Daniel Falush;Martin C. J. Maiden

  • Infiltration by alien predators into invertebrate food webs in Hawaii: a molecular approach

    Samuel Keir Sheppard;M. L. Henneman;J. Memmott;William Oliver Chistian Symondson

  • Combined analysis of variation in core, accessory and regulatory genome regions provides a super-resolution view into the evolution of bacterial populations

    Alan McNally;Yaara Oren;Darren Kelly;Ben Pascoe

  • Population genomics of bacterial host adaptation.

    Samuel K. Sheppard;David S. Guttman;J. Ross Fitzgerald

  • CLIMB (the Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics): an online resource for the medical microbiology community

    Thomas R. Connor;Nicholas J Loman;Simon Thompson;Andy Smith

  • Campylobacter genotypes from food animals, environmental sources and clinical disease in Scotland 2005/6.

    Samuel K. Sheppard;John F Dallas;Marion MacRae;Noel D. McCarthy

  • PIRATE: A fast and scalable pangenomics toolbox for clustering diverged orthologues in bacteria.

    Sion C Bayliss;Harry A Thorpe;Nicola M Coyle;Samuel K Sheppard

  • Progressive genome-wide introgression in agricultural Campylobacter coli

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Samuel K. Sheppard;Xavier Didelot;Keith A. Jolley;Aaron E. Darling

  • The evolution of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Martin C.J. Maiden

  • Campylobacter epidemiology: a descriptive study reviewing 1 million cases in England and Wales between 1989 and 2011

    Gordon L Nichols;Judith F Richardson;Samuel K Sheppard;Samuel K Sheppard;Chris Lane

  • Ecological Overlap and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.

    Guillaume Méric;Maria Miragaia;Mark de Been;Koji Yahara;Koji Yahara

  • Attribution of Campylobacter Infections in Northeast Scotland to Specific Sources by Use of Multilocus Sequence Typing

    Norval J. C. Strachan;Fraser J. Gormley;Ovidiu Rotariu;Iain D. Ogden

  • A Gene-By-Gene Approach to Bacterial Population Genomics: Whole Genome MLST of Campylobacter

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Keith A. Jolley;Martin C. J. Maiden

  • Disease-associated genotypes of the commensal skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Guillaume Méric;Leonardos Mageiros;Leonardos Mageiros;Johan Pensar;Maisem Laabei;Maisem Laabei

  • Cryptic ecology among host generalist Campylobacter jejuni in domestic animals

    Samuel K. Sheppard;Samuel K. Sheppard;Lu Cheng;Guillaume Méric;Caroline P. A. de Haan

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin C. J. Maiden
Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo
Keith A. Jolley
Keith A. Jolley University of Oxford
Noel D. McCarthy
Noel D. McCarthy University of Warwick
Edward J. Feil
Edward J. Feil University of Bath
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Daniel Falush
Daniel Falush Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xavier Didelot
Xavier Didelot University of Warwick
David M. Aanensen
David M. Aanensen University of Oxford
David J. Kelly
David J. Kelly University of Sheffield

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