Dr Andrew Nelson

Senior Lecturer

Department: Applied Sciences

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Key Publications

Assessment of upper respiratory and gut bacterial microbiomes during COVID-19 infection in adults: potential aerodigestive transmission, Al-Momani, H., Nelson, A., Al Balawi, H., Al Balawi, D., Aolymat, I., Khasawneh, A., Tabl, H., Alsheikh, A., Zueter, A., Pearson, J., Ward, C. 13 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Reports
Unravelling genotype-phenotype correlations in Stargardt disease using patient-derived retinal organoids, Watson, A., Queen, R., Ferrández-Peral, L., Dorgau, B., Collin, J., Nelson, A., Hussain, R., Coxhead, J., McCorkindale, M., Atkinson, R., Zerti, D., Chichagova, V., Conesa, A., Armstrong, L., Cremers, F., Lako, M. 19 Feb 2025, In: Cell Death and Disease
Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny, Hunt, M., Hinrichs, A., Anderson, D., Karim, L., Dearlove, B., Knaggs, J., Constantinides, B., Fowler, P., Rodger, G., Street, T., Lumley, S., Webster, H., Sanderson, T., Ruis, C., de Maio, N., Amenga-Etego, L., Amuzu, D., Avaro, M., Awandare, G., Ayivor-Djanie, R., Bashton, M., Batty, E., Bediako, Y., De Belder, D., Benedetti, E., Bergthaler, A., Boers, S., Campos, J., Carr, R., Cuba, F., Dattero, M., Dejnirattisai, W., Dilthey, A., Duedu, K., Endler, L., Engelmann, I., Francisco, N., Fuchs, J., Gnimpieba, E., Groc, S., Gyamfi, J., Heemskerk, D., Houwaart, T., Hsiao, N., Huska, M., Hölzer, M., Iranzadeh, A., Jarva, H., Jeewandara, C., Jolly, B., Joseph, R., Kant, R., Ki, K., Kurkela, S., Lappalainen, M., Lataretu, M., Liu, C., Malavige, G., Mashe, T., Mongkolsapaya, J., Montes, B., Mora, J., Morang’a, C., Mvula, B., Nagarajan, N., Nelson, A., Ngoi, J., da Paixão, J., Panning, M., Poklepovich, T., Quashie, P., Ranasinghe, D., Russo, M., San, J., Sanderson, N., Scaria, V., Screaton, G., Sironen, T., Sisay, A., Smith, D., Smura, T., Supasa, P., Suphavilai, C., Swann, J., Tegally, H., Tegomoh, B., Vapalahti, O., Walker, A., Wilkinson, R., Williamson, C., de Oliveira, T., Peto, T., Crook, D., Corbett-Detig, R., Iqbal, Z. 30 Apr 2024
COVID-19 risk mitigation in reopening mass cultural events: population-based observational study for the UK Events Research Programme in Liverpool City Region, Burnside, G., Cheyne, C., Leeming, G., Humann, M., Darby, A., Green, M., Crozier, A., Maskell, S., O'Halloran, K., Musi, E., Carmi, E., Khan, N., Fisher, D., Corcoran, R., Dunning, J., Edmunds, W., Tharmaratnam, K., Hughes, D., Malki-Epshtein, L., Cook, M., Roberts, B., Gallagher, E., Howell, K., Chand, M., Kemp, R., Boulter, M., Fowler, T., Semple, M., Coffey, E., Ashton, M., García-Fiñana, M., Buchan, I., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Nelson, A., Young, G. 1 Jan 2024, In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Effects of non-digestible carbohydrates on gut microbiota and microbial metabolites: a randomised, controlled dietary intervention in healthy individuals, Malcomson, F., Louca, P., Nelson, A., Willis, N., McCallum, I., Xie, L., Ouwehand, A., Stowell, J., Preston, T., Morrison, D., Kelly, S., Bradburn, D., Belshaw, N., Johnson, I., Corfe, B., Stewart, C., Mathers, J. 14 Dec 2024, In: The British Journal of Nutrition
Influence of maternal folate depletion on Art3 DNA methylation in the murine adult brain: potential consequences for brain and neurocognitive health, Kok, D., Saunders, R., Nelson, A., Smith, D., Ford, D., Mathers, J., McKay, J. 1 May 2024, In: Mutagenesis
Lineage frequency time series reveal elevated levels of genetic drift in SARS-CoV-2 transmission in England, Yu, Q., Ascensao, J., Okada, T., Boyd, O., Volz, E., Hallatschek, O., Bashton, M., Smith, D., Nelson, A., McCann, C. 15 Apr 2024, In: PLoS Pathogens
Long-term stability of the faecal microbiome profile in faecal immunochemical test (FIT) samples, Mitra, S., Stewart, C., Nelson, A., Hampton, J., Masi, A., Manning, S., Sharp, L., Hull, M., Rees, C. 10 Dec 2024, In: Gut
Phylogenomic analyses of multidrug resistant Corynebacterium striatum strains isolated from patients in a tertiary care hospital in the UK, Sangal, V., Marrs, E., Nelson, A., Perry, J. 1 Jul 2024, In: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study, Ghafari, M., Hall, M., Golubchik, T., Ayoubkhani, D., House, T., MacIntyre-Cockett, G., Fryer, H., Thomson, L., Nurtay, A., Kemp, S., Ferretti, L., Buck, D., Green, A., Trebes, A., Lonie, L., Piazza, P., Studley, R., Rourke, E., Smith, D., Bashton, M., Nelson, A., Crown, M., McCann, C., Young, G., Santos, R., Richards, Z., Tariq, M., Cahuantzi, R., Barrett, J., Fraser, C., Bonsall, D., Walker, A., Lythgoe, K. 29 Feb 2024, In: Nature

Professional Activity

Invited talk: Decontamination 2019

PGR Supervision

Jasmine Jessop Characterising Prophage diversity and function in the preterm infant pathogen, Staphylococcus epidermidis Start Date: 01/10/2021

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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