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1405

Overview

Thomas R. Connor is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Modeling and Simulation, and Genetics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, including detection and testing methods, clinical research studies, genomics and phylogenetic analyses, as well as epidemiological investigations. Additionally, their research spans Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Nicholas J. Loman, Andrew Rambaut, Matthew Bull, David M. Aanensen, and Verity Hill.

  • Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbial Genomics, Cell, Science, and Nature Microbiology.

Recent papers illustrate their involvement in high-impact studies on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants. These include:

  • "Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity" (2020) published in Cell
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway" (2022) published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study" (2021) published in Cronfa (Swansea University)
  • "Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK" (2021) published in Science
  • "Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B.1.1.7" (2021) published in Cell Reports

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

  • Genomic analysis of diversity, population structure, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae, an urgent threat to public health

    Kathryn E. Holt;Heiman Wertheim;Ruth N. Zadoks;Stephen Baker

  • Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity.

    Erik Volz;Verity Hill;John T McCrone;Anna Price

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

    Miao He;Fabio Miyajima;Paul Roberts;Louise Ellison

  • Targeted Restoration of the Intestinal Microbiota with a Simple, Defined Bacteriotherapy Resolves Relapsing Clostridium difficile Disease in Mice

    Trevor D. Lawley;Simon Clare;Alan W. Walker;Mark D. Stares

  • Hierarchical and Spatially Explicit Clustering of DNA Sequences with BAPS Software

    Lu Cheng;Thomas R. Connor;Thomas R. Connor;Jukka Sirén;David M. Aanensen

  • Evaluating the effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutation D614G on transmissibility and pathogenicity

    Erik M Volz;Verity Hill;John T McCrone;Anna Price

  • Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study.

    Katherine A Twohig;Tommy Nyberg;Asad Zaidi;Simon Thelwall

  • Intracontinental spread of human invasive Salmonella Typhimurium pathovariants in sub-Saharan Africa

    Chinyere K. Okoro;Robert A. Kingsley;Thomas Richard Connor;Simon R. Harris

  • Shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine and its potential role in person-to-person transmission and the environment-based spread of COVID-19.

    David L. Jones;David L. Jones;Marcos Quintela Baluja;David W. Graham;Alexander Corbishley

  • Distinguishable epidemics of multidrug-resistant Salmonella typhimurium DT104 in different hosts

    A. E. Mather;S. W. J. Reid;D. J. Maskell;J. Parkhill

  • Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK.

    Louis du Plessis;John T. McCrone;Alexander E. Zarebski;Verity Hill

  • Genome Sequencing and Analysis of the Tasmanian Devil and Its Transmissible Cancer

    Elizabeth P. Murchison;Ole B. Schulz-Trieglaff;Zemin Ning;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission.

    Katrina A Lythgoe;Matthew Hall;Luca Ferretti;Mariateresa de Cesare

  • Patterns of genome evolution that have accompanied host adaptation in Salmonella.

    Gemma C. Langridge;Maria Fookes;Thomas R. Connor;Theresa Feltwell

  • A structure-based nomenclature for Bacillus thuringiensis and other bacteria-derived pesticidal proteins

    Neil Crickmore;Colin Berry;Suresh Panneerselvam;Ruchir Mishra

  • Intercontinental dissemination of azithromycin-resistant shigellosis through sexual transmission: a cross-sectional study

    Kate Susan Baker;Timothy J Dallman;Philip M Ashton;Martin Day

  • Salmonella bongori provides insights into the evolution of the salmonellae

    Maria Fookes;Gunnar N Schroeder;Gemma C. Langridge;Carlos J. Blondel

  • Whole genome sequencing reveals potential spread of Clostridium difficile between humans and farm animals in the Netherlands, 2002 to 2011.

    C W Knetsch;T R Connor;A Mutreja;S M van Dorp

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Simon R. Harris
Simon R. Harris Wellcome Sanger Institute
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo
Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
Eshwar Mahenthiralingam Cardiff University
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Gregory L. Challis
Gregory L. Challis University of Warwick
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Nicholas J. Loman
Nicholas J. Loman University of Birmingham
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University

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