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Hire Danesh M.
United Kingdom
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Lead Genomic Data Scientist

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting
Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Processing, Data Insights
Product Development Formulation, Prototyping
Work Experience

Group leader

University of Birmingham

November 2018 - Present

Lecturer in Bioinformatics

University of Birmingham

November 2018 - Present

Post-doctoral fellow

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

June 2014 - November 2018

Education

PhD (Environemental Systems Sciences)

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

April 2011 - April 2014

Certifications
  • Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danesh Moradigaravand, Sam Benkwitz-Bedford, Martin Palm, Talip Yasir Demirtas, Ville Mustonen, Anne Farewell, Jonas Warringer, Leopold Parts, Tricia A. Van Laar(2021). Machine Learning Prediction of Resistance to Subinhibitory Antimicrobial Concentrations from Escherichia coli Genomes . mSystems. 6. (4). American Society for Microbiology
Danesh Moradigaravand, Robert Murphy, Martin Palm, Ville Mustonen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell, Leopold Parts, Maria L. Marco(2021). Genomic Epidemiology and Evolution of Escherichia coli in Wild Animals in Mexico . mSphere. 6. (1). American Society for Microbiology
Danesh Moradigaravand, Aaron E. Darling, Martin Palm, Anne Farewell, Ville Mustonen, Jonas Warringer, Leopold Parts(2018). Prediction of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from large-scale pan-genome data . PLOS Computational Biology. 14. (12). p. e1006258. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})
Köser CU, Heyckendorf J, Andres S, Olaru ID, Schön T, Sturegård E, Beckert P, Schleusener V, Kohl TA, Hillemann D, et al.(2018). Reply to Dookie et al., "Whole-Genome Sequencing To Guide the Selection of Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis" . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Moradigaravand D, Gouliouris T, Ludden C, Reuter S, Jamrozy D, Blane B, Naydenova P, Judge K, H Aliyu S, F Hadjirin N, et al.(2018). Genomic survey of Clostridium difficile reservoirs in the East of England implicates environmental contamination of wastewater treatment plants by clinical lineages . Microbial genomics.
Heyckendorf J, Andres S, Köser CU, Olaru ID, Schön T, Sturegård E, Beckert P, Schleusener V, Kohl TA, Hillemann D, et al.(2018). What Is Resistance? Impact of Phenotypic versus Molecular Drug Resistance Testing on Therapy for Multi- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Moradigaravand D, Gouliouris T, Blane B, Naydenova P, Ludden C, Crawley C, Brown NM, Török ME, Parkhill J, Peacock SJ(2017). Within-host evolution of Enterococcus faecium during longitudinal carriage and transition to bloodstream infection in immunocompromised patients . Genome medicine.
Nakatani Y, Opel-Reading HK, Merker M, Machado D, Andres S, Kumar SS, Moradigaravand D, Coll F, Perdigão J, Portugal I, et al.(2017). Role of Alanine Racemase Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis d-Cycloserine Resistance . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Moradigaravand D, Jamrozy D, Mostowy R, Anderson A, Nickerson EK, Thaipadungpanit J, Wuthiekanun V, Limmathurotsakul D, Tandhavanant S, Wikraiphat C, et al.(2017). Evolution of the Staphylococcus argenteus ST2250 Clone in Northeastern Thailand Is Linked with the Acquisition of Livestock-Associated Staphylococcal Genes . mBio.
Ajileye A, Alvarez N, Merker M, Walker TM, Akter S, Brown K, Moradigaravand D, Schön T, Andres S, Schleusener V, et al.(2017). Some Synonymous and Nonsynonymous gyrA Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lead to Systematic False-Positive Fluoroquinolone Resistance Results with the Hain GenoType MTBDRsl Assays . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Runcharoen C, Moradigaravand D, Blane B, Paksanont S, Thammachote J, Anun S, Parkhill J, Chantratita N, Peacock SJ(2017). Whole genome sequencing reveals high-resolution epidemiological links between clinical and environmental Klebsiella pneumoniae . Genome medicine.
Moradigaravand D, Reuter S, Martin V, Peacock SJ, Parkhill J(2016). The dissemination of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae throughout the UK and Ireland . Nature microbiology.
Su HW, Zhu JH, Li H, Cai RJ, Ealand C, Wang X, Chen YX, Kayani MU, Zhu TF, Moradigaravand D, et al.(2016). The essential mycobacterial amidotransferase GatCAB is a modulator of specific translational fidelity . Nature microbiology.
Yu X, Wang G, Chen S, Wei G, Shang Y, Dong L, Schön T, Moradigaravand D, Parkhill J, Peacock SJ, et al.(2016). Wild-Type and Non-Wild-Type Mycobacterium tuberculosis MIC Distributions for the Novel Fluoroquinolone Antofloxacin Compared with Those for Ofloxacin, Levofloxacin, and Moxifloxacin . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Moradigaravand D, Boinett CJ, Martin V, Peacock SJ, Parkhill J(2016). Recent independent emergence of multiple multidrug-resistant Serratia marcescens clones within the United Kingdom and Ireland . Genome research.
Moradigaravand D, Grandjean L, Martinez E, Li H, Zheng J, Coronel J, Moore D, Török ME, Sintchenko V, Huang H, et al.(2016). dfrA thyA Double Deletion in para-Aminosalicylic Acid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains . Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy.
Aung HL, Tun T, Moradigaravand D, Köser CU, Nyunt WW, Aung ST, Lwin T, Thinn KK, Crump JA, Parkhill J, et al.(2016). Whole-genome sequencing of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Myanmar . Journal of global antimicrobial resistance.
Moradigaravand D, Kouyos R, Hinkley T, Haddad M, Petropoulos CJ, Engelstädter J, Bonhoeffer S(2014). Recombination accelerates adaptation on a large-scale empirical fitness landscape in HIV-1 . PLoS genetics.
Moradigaravand D, Engelstädter J(2014). The impact of natural transformation on adaptation in spatially structured bacterial populations . BMC evolutionary biology.
Engelstädter J, Moradigaravand D(2013). Adaptation through genetic time travel? Fluctuating selection can drive the evolution of bacterial transformation . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Moradigaravand D, Engelstädter J(2013). The evolution of natural competence: disentangling costs and benefits of sex in bacteria . The American naturalist.
Moradigaravand D, Engelstädter J(2012). The effect of bacterial recombination on adaptation on fitness landscapes with limited peak accessibility . PLoS computational biology.
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Danesh Moradigaravand, Sam Benkwitz-Bedford, Martin Palm, Talip Yasir Demirtas, Ville Mustonen, Anne Farewell, Jonas Warringer, Leopold Parts(2021). Machine learning prediction of resistance to sub-inhibitory antimicrobial concentrations from Escherichia coli genomes . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Danesh Moradigaravand, Robert Murphy, Martin Palm, Ville Mustonen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell, Leopold Parts(2020). Genomic epidemiology and evolution of Escherichia coli in wild animals . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Moradigaravand D, Palm M, Farewell A, Mustonen V, Warringer J, Parts L(2018). Precise prediction of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from full genome sequences .