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Simon R. Harris is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these main fields, they have contributed extensively to several subfields, including microbiology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and physiology.

The scope of Simon R. Harris's work encompasses numerous topics. Key areas include reproductive tract infections research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, bacterial infections and vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and tuberculosis research and epidemiology.

Simon R. Harris has produced multiple recent scientific publications. Notable papers include:

  • Phylogenomics of Mycobacterium africanum reveals a new lineage and a complex evolutionary history (2021), published in Microbial Genomics
  • A community-driven resource for genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance prediction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at Pathogenwatch (2021), published in Genome Medicine
  • Genomic evolution of Neisseria gonorrhoeae since the preantibiotic era (1928-2013): antimicrobial use/misuse selects for resistance and drives evolution (2020), published in BMC Genomics
  • Adaptation to the cervical environment is associated with increased antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Globetrotting strangles: the unbridled national and international transmission of Streptococcus equi between horses (2021), published in Microbial Genomics

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Leonor Sánchez-Busó
  • Julian Parkhill
  • Trevor D. Lawley
  • Kévin Vervier
  • David J. Adams

Simon R. Harris has published in various academic venues, with notable publication counts in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): 7 publications
  • Microbial Genomics: 3 publications
  • Genome Medicine: 1 publication
  • BMC Genomics: 1 publication
  • Nature Communications: 1 publication

Best Publications

  • Rapid phylogenetic analysis of large samples of recombinant bacterial whole genome sequences using Gubbins.

    Nicholas J. Croucher;Andrew J. Page;Thomas R. Connor;Aidan J. Delaney

  • A tale of three next generation sequencing platforms: comparison of Ion Torrent, Pacific Biosciences and Illumina MiSeq sequencers.

    Michael Quail;Miriam E. Smith;Paul Coupland;Thomas D. Otto

  • SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments

    Andrew J. Page;Ben Taylor;Aidan J. Delaney;Jorge Soares

  • Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

    Simon R. Harris;Edward J. Feil;Matthew T. G. Holden;Michael A. Quail

  • Artemis: an integrated platform for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequence-based experimental data

    Tim Carver;Simon R. Harris;Matthew Berriman;Julian Parkhill

  • Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

    Iñaki Comas;Mireia Coscolla;Mireia Coscolla;Tao Luo;Sonia Borrell;Sonia Borrell

  • Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

    Nicholas J. Croucher;Simon R. Harris;Christophe Fraser;Michael A. Quail

  • Circlator: automated circularization of genome assemblies using long sequencing reads

    Martin Hunt;Nishadi De Silva;Thomas D. Otto;Julian Parkhill

  • Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic

    Ankur Mutreja;Dong Wook Kim;Dong Wook Kim;Nicholas R Thomson;Thomas R Connor

  • Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile.

    Miao He;Fabio Miyajima;Paul Roberts;Louise Ellison

  • Rapid whole-genome sequencing for investigation of a neonatal MRSA outbreak.

    Claudio U. Köser;Claudio U. Köser;Matthew T.G. Holden;Matthew J. Ellington;Edward J P Cartwright;Edward J P Cartwright

  • Whole-genome sequencing to identify transmission of Mycobacterium abscessus between patients with cystic fibrosis: a retrospective cohort study

    Josephine M Bryant;Dorothy M Grogono;Daniel Greaves;Juliet Foweraker

  • Epidemic of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Europe is driven by nosocomial spread

    Sophia David;Sandra Reuter;Simon R. Harris;Corinna Glasner

  • ARIBA: rapid antimicrobial resistance genotyping directly from sequencing reads

    Martin Hunt;Alison E Mather;Alison E Mather;Leonor Sánchez-Busó;Andrew J Page

  • Whole-genome sequencing for analysis of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a descriptive study

    Simon R Harris;Edward J P Cartwright;M Estée Török;Matthew T G Holden

  • Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

    Kirsten I. Bos;Kelly M. Harkins;Alexander Herbig;Mireia Coscolla

  • Evolution and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Russian population

    Nicola Casali;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy;Yanina Balabanova;Simon R Harris

  • Tuberculous Granuloma Induction via Interaction of a Bacterial Secreted Protein with Host Epithelium

    Hannah E. Volkman;Tamara C. Pozos;John Zheng;J. Muse Davis

  • Phandango: an interactive viewer for bacterial population genomics

    James Hadfield;Nicholas J Croucher;Richard J Goater;Khalil Abudahab

  • Epidemic of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Europe is driven by nosocomial spread

    Sophia David;Sandra Reuter;Simon R. Harris;Corinna Glasner

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Matthew T. G. Holden
Matthew T. G. Holden University of St Andrews
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo
Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute
Nicholas J. Croucher
Nicholas J. Croucher Imperial College London
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Yonatan H. Grad
Yonatan H. Grad Harvard University
Sebastien Gagneux
Sebastien Gagneux University of Basel

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