Professor Nick Loman

Professor Nick Loman PhD

School of Biosciences
Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 4145 421
Email: n.j.loman@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Address: W129, School of Biosciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Nick works as Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University 麻豆精选. His research explores the use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of infectious disease. Nick has so far used high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important Gram-negative multi-drug resistant pathogens, and recently helped establish real-time genomic surveillance of Ebola in Guinea. His current work focuses on the development of novel sequencing and bioinformatics methods to aid the interpretation of genome and metagenome scale data generated in clinical and public health microbiology.

Postgraduate supervision

Nick Loman works as an Independent Research Fellow in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University 麻豆精选, sponsored by a seven-year MRC Fellowship in Microbial Genomics Bioinformatics. His research explores the use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of infectious disease. Dr Loman has so far used high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important Gram-negative multi-drug resistant pathogens, and recently helped establish real-time genomic surveillance of Ebola in Guinea. His current work focuses on the development of novel sequencing and bioinformatics methods to aid the interpretation of genome and metagenome scale data generated in clinical and public health microbiology.

Other activities

Editorial Board, Microbial Genomics (Microbiology Society) 2015 – present
Editorial Board, PeerJ () 2015 – present
Affiliate, bioRxiv.org (Cold Spring Harbor Press) 2015 – present
Organiser, Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology (Wellcome Trust) 2013 –present
Organiser, Genome Science () 2015 – present

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Lumley, SF, Kent, C, Jennings, D, Chai, H, Airey, G, Waddilove, E, Delphin, M, Trebes, A, McNaughton, AL, Mohammed, KS, Wilkinson, SAJ, Wu, Y, MacIntyre-Cockett, G, Kimono, B, Mbonye, KM, Ojambo, K, Maponga, TG, Tan, CCS, de Lara, C, Martin, J, Campbell, J, Van Schalkwyk, M, Goedhals, D, Newton, R, Barnes, E, Loman, NJ, Piazza, P, Quick, J, Ansari, MA & Matthews, PC 2025, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 5795.

Colquhoun, R, O鈥橳oole, 脕, Hill, V, McCrone, JT, Yu, X, Nicholls, SM, Poplawski, R, Whalley, T, Groves, N, Ellaby, N, Loman, N, Connor, T & Rambaut, A 2024, '', Virus evolution, vol. 10, no. 1.

Mirza, JD, de Oliveira Guimar茫es, L, Wilkinson, S, Rocha, EC, Bertanhe, M, Helfstein, VC, de-Deus, JT, Claro, IM, Cumley, N, Quick, J, Faria, NR, Sabino, EC, Kirchgatter, K & Loman, NJ 2024, '', Microbial Genomics, vol. 10, no. 1, 001184.

Claro, IM, Ramundo, MS, Coletti, TM, da Silva, CAM, Valenca, IN, Candido, DS, Sales, FCS, Manuli, ER, de Jesus, JG, de Paula, A, Felix, AC, Andrade, PDS, Pinho, MC, Souza, WM, Amorim, MR, Proenca-Modena, JL, Kallas, EG, Levi, JE, Faria, NR, Sabino, EC, Loman, NJ & Quick, J 2023, '', Wellcome Open Research, vol. 6, 241.

The COVID-19 Genomics U. K. (COG-UK) Consortium, Modat, M, Hammers, A, Spector, TD, Steves, CJ, Sudre, CH, Ourselin, S & Duncan, EL 2022, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 10904.

Wilkinson, SAJ, Richter, A, Casey, A, Osman, H, Mirza, JD, Stockton, J, Quick, J, Ratcliffe, L, Sparks, N, Cumley, N, Poplawski, R, Nicholls, SN, Kele, B, Harris, K, Peacock, TP & Loman, NJ 2022, '', Virus evolution, vol. 8, no. 2, veac050.

The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Smallman-Raynor, MR & Cliff, AD 2022, '', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 150, e145.

Du Plessis, L, Mccrone, JT, Zarebski, AE, Hill, V, Ruis, C, Gutierrez, B, Raghwani, J, Ashworth, J, Colquhoun, R, Connor, TR, Faria, NR, Jackson, B, Loman, NJ, O鈥檛oole, 脕, Nicholls, SM, Parag, KV, Scher, E, Vasylyeva, TI, Volz, EM, Watts, A, Bogoch, II, COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Aanensen, DM, Kraemer, MUG, Rambaut, A, Pybus, OG, Beggs, A & Khan, KM 2021, '', Science, vol. 371, no. 6530, pp. 708-712.

COG-UK Consortium, Volz, E, Hill, V, McCrone, JT, Price, A, Jorgensen, D, O'Toole, 脕, Southgate, J, Johnson, R, Jackson, B, Nascimento, FF, Rey, SM, Nicholls, SM, Colquhoun, RM, da Silva Filipe, A, Shepherd, J, Pascall, DJ, Shah, R, Jesudason, N, Li, K, Jarrett, R, Pacchiarini, N, Bull, M, Geidelberg, L, Siveroni, I, Goodfellow, I, Loman, NJ, Pybus, OG, Robertson, DL, Thomson, EC, Rambaut, A & Connor, TR 2021, '', Cell, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 64-75.e11.

The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Sanger Covid Team, Jackson, B, Nicholls, SM, Poplawski, R, Loman, NJ & Rambaut, A 2021, '', Cell, vol. 184, no. 20, pp. 5179-5188.e8.

The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Meng, B, Kemp, SA, Papa, G, Datir, R, Ferreira, IATM, Marelli, S, Harvey, WT, Lytras, S, Mohamed, A, Gallo, G, Thakur, N, Collier, DA, Mlcochova, P, Duncan, LM, Carabelli, AM, Kenyon, JC, Lever, AM, De Marco, A, Saliba, C, Culap, K, Cameroni, E, Matheson, NJ, Piccoli, L, Corti, D, James, LC, Robertson, DL, Bailey, D & Gupta, RK 2021, '', Cell Reports, vol. 35, no. 13, 109292.

COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium & Beggs, A 2021, '', Science, vol. 373, no. 6557, pp. 889-895.

Gregorova, M, Morse, D, Brignoli, T, Steventon, J, Hamilton, F, Albur, M, Arnold, D, Thomas, M, Halliday, A, Baum, H, Rice, C, Avison, MB, Davidson, AD, Santopaolo, M, Oliver, E, Goenka, A, Finn, A, Wooldridge, L, Amulic, B, Boyton, RJ, Altmann, DM, Butler, DK, McMurray, C, Stockton, J, Nicholls, S, Cooper, C, Loman, N, Cox, MJ, Rivino, L & Massey, RC 2020, '', eLife, vol. 9, e63430, pp. 1-13.

Quraishi, MN, Yalchin, M, Blackwell, C, Segal, JP, Sharma, N, Hawkey, P, McCune, V, Hart, A, Gaya, DR, Ives, N, Magill, L, Loi, S, Hewitt, C, Gerasimidis, K, Loman, N, Hansen, R, McMullan, C, Mathers, J, Quince, C, Crees, N & Iqbal, T 2019, '', BMJ open, vol. 9, no. 11, e030659.

Nicholls, SM, Quick, JC, Tang, S & Loman, NJ 2019, '', GigaScience.