Dr Michiel Vos is a senior lecturer in Microbiology who combines approaches from microbiology, evolutionary ecology and population genomics. Main research foci include bacterial genome evolution and the ecology of antibiotic resistance- and virulence genes. Recent publications include:
Hernandez, E. Hesse, A. Dowling, N. Coyle, E. Feil, W. Gaze, M. Vos. Selectively isolating pathogenic bacteria from the environment using a phenotypic virulence screen. PeerJ in press
Colclough, J. Corander, S. Bayliss, S. Sheppard and M. Vos. Patterns of cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity between clinical antibiotics and natural antimicrobials. Evol. Appl. accepted
Murray, A.K., Lee, J., Bendall, R., Zhang, L., Sunde, M., Schau Slettemeås, J., Gaze, W., Page, A.J. and M. Vos. (2018). Staphylococcus cornubiensis sp. nov., a member of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group (SIG). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 68: 3404-3408.
Vos and A. Eyre-Walker (2017). Are pangenomes adaptive or not? Nature Microbiol 2, 1576 doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0067-5
Andreani, E. Hesse and M. Vos (2017). Prokaryote genome fluidity is dependent on effective population size ISME J, 11(7), 1719.