Dr Andrew Nelson

Senior Lecturer

Department: Applied Sciences

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Key Publications

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Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England, Volz, E., Mishra, S., Chand, M., Barrett, J., Johnson, R., Geidelberg, L., Hinsley, W., Laydon, D., Dabrera, G., O’Toole, Á., Amato, R., Ragonnet-Cronin, M., Harrison, I., Jackson, B., Ariani, C., Boyd, O., Loman, N., McCrone, J., Gonçalves, S., Jorgensen, D., Myers, R., Hill, V., Jackson, D., Gaythorpe, K., Groves, N., Sillitoe, J., Kwiatkowski, D., Koshy, C., Ash, A., Wise, E., Moore, N., Mori, M., Cortes, N., Lynch, J., Kidd, S., Fairley, D., Curran, T., McKenna, J., Adams, H., Fraser, C., Smith, D., Bashton, M., Young, G., Nelson, A., McCann, C., Yew, W., Williams, C., Jones, H., Hartley, J., Flaxman, S., Ratmann, O., Bhatt, S., Hopkins, S., Gandy, A., Rambaut, A., Ferguson, N. 13 May 2021, In: Nature
Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7: an ecological study, Graham, M., Sudre, C., May, A., Antonelli, M., Murray, B., Varsavsky, T., Kläser, K., Canas, L., Molteni, E., Modat, M., Drew, D., Nguyen, L., Polidori, L., Selvachandran, S., Hu, C., Capdevila, J., Hammers, A., Chan, A., Wolf, J., Spector, T., Steves, C., Ourselin, S., Koshy, C., Ash, A., Wise, E., Moore, N., Mori, M., Cortes, N., Lynch, J., Kidd, S., Fairley, D., Curran, T., McKenna, J., Adams, H., Fraser, C., Golubchik, T., Bonsall, D., Hassan-Ibrahim, M., Malone, C., Cogger, B., Wantoch, M., Reynolds, N., Warne, B., Smith, D., Bashton, M., Young, G., Nelson, A., McCann, C., Yew, W., Jones, H. 1 May 2021, In: The Lancet Public Health
Changing composition of SARS-CoV-2 lineages and rise of Delta variant in England, Mishra, S., Mindermann, S., Sharma, M., Whittaker, C., Mellan, T., Wilton, T., Klapsa, D., Mate, R., Fritzsche, M., Zambon, M., Ahuja, J., Howes, A., Miscouridou, X., Nason, G., Ratmann, O., Semenova, E., Leech, G., Sandkühler, J., Rogers-Smith, C., Vollmer, M., Unwin, H., Gal, Y., Chand, M., Gandy, A., Martin, J., Volz, E., Ferguson, N., Bhatt, S., Brauner, J., Flaxman, S., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Nelson, A., Young, G., McCann, C. 1 Sep 2021, In: EClinicalMedicine
Circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike N439K variants maintain fitness while evading antibody-mediated immunity, Thomson, E., Rosen, L., Shepherd, J., Spreafico, R., da Silva Filipe, A., Wojcechowskyj, J., Davis, C., Piccoli, L., Pascall, D., Dillen, J., Lytras, S., Czudnochowski, N., Shah, R., Meury, M., Jesudason, N., De Marco, A., Li, K., Bassi, J., O'Toole, A., Pinto, D., Colquhoun, R., Culap, K., Jackson, B., Zatta, F., Rambaut, A., Jaconi, S., Sreenu, V., Nix, J., Zhang, I., Jarrett, R., Glass, W., Beltramello, M., Nomikou, K., Pizzuto, M., Tong, L., Cameroni, E., Croll, T., Johnson, N., Di Iulio, J., Wickenhagen, A., Ceschi, A., Harbison, A., Mair, D., Ferrari, P., Smollett, K., Sallusto, F., Carmichael, S., Garzoni, C., Nichols, J., Galli, M., Robertson, D., Snell, G., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Nelson, A., Young, G. 4 Mar 2021, In: Cell
CLIMB-COVID: continuous integration supporting decentralised sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, Nicholls, S., Poplawski, R., Bull, M., Underwood, A., Chapman, M., Abu-Dahab, K., Taylor, B., Colquhoun, R., Rowe, W., Jackson, B., Hill, V., O’Toole, Á., Rey, S., Southgate, J., Amato, R., Livett, R., Gonçalves, S., Harrison, E., Peacock, S., Aanensen, D., Rambaut, A., Connor, T., Loman, N., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Nelson, A., Young, G., McCann, C. 1 Jul 2021, In: Genome Biology
Decontamination Strategies Used for AFB Culture Significantly Reduce the Viability of Mycobacterium abscessus Complex in Sputum Samples from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis, Stephenson, D., Perry, A., Nelson, A., Robb, A., Thomas, M., Bourke, S., Perry, J., Jones, A. 27 Jul 2021, In: Microorganisms
Detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with SNP genotyping, Harper, H., Burridge, A., Winfield, M., Finn, A., Davidson, A., Matthews, D., Hutchings, S., Vipond, B., Jain, N., Allan, J., Bashton, M., Loh, J., Nelson, A., Smith, D., Yew, W., Young, G., Edwards, K., Barker, G. 24 Feb 2021, In: PLoS One
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory samples from cats in the UK associated with human-to-cat transmission, Hosie, M., Epifano, I., Herder, V., Orton, R., Stevenson, A., Johnson, N., MacDonald, E., Dunbar, D., McDonald, M., Howie, F., Tennant, B., Herrity, D., Da Silva Filipe, A., Streicker, D., Willett, B., Murcia, P., Jarrett, R., Robertson, D., Weir, W., Bashton, M., Nelson, A., Smith, D., Young, G. Apr 2021, In: Veterinary Record
Efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 (B.1.1.7): an exploratory analysis of a randomised controlled trial, Emary, K., Golubchik, T., Aley, P., Ariani, C., Angus, B., Bibi, S., Blane, B., Bonsall, D., Cicconi, P., Charlton, S., Clutterbuck, E., Collins, A., Cox, T., Darton, T., Dold, C., Douglas, A., Duncan, C., Ewer, K., Flaxman, A., Faust, S., Ferreira, D., Feng, S., Finn, A., Folegatti, P., Fuskova, M., Galiza, E., Goodman, A., Green, C., Green, C., Greenland, M., Hallis, B., Heath, P., Hay, J., Hill, H., Jenkin, D., Kerridge, S., Lazarus, R., Libri, V., Lillie, P., Ludden, C., Marchevsky, N., Minassian, A., McGregor, A., Mujadidi, Y., Phillips, D., Plested, E., Pollock, K., Robinson, H., Smith, A., Song, R., Bashton, M., Nelson, A., Young, G., Smith, D. 10 Apr 2021, In: The Lancet
Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK, Du Plessis, L., Mccrone, J., Zarebski, A., Hill, V., Ruis, C., Gutierrez, B., Raghwani, J., Ashworth, J., Colquhoun, R., Connor, T., Faria, N., Jackson, B., Loman, N., O’toole, Á., Nicholls, S., Parag, K., Scher, E., Vasylyeva, T., Volz, E., Watts, A., Bogoch, I., Khan, K., Aanensen, D., Kraemer, M., Rambaut, A., Pybus, O., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Young, G., Nelson, A. 12 Feb 2021, In: Science

Qualifications

Microbiology PhD September 01 2007
Biomedical Scientist Health & Care Professional Council (HCPC) 2013
Early Career Scientist Society for General Microbiology (SGM) 2013

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