About me:

I am a senior lecturer in evolutionary microbiology at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health and the Environment and Sustainability Institute, Cornwall Campus. I combine approaches from microbiology, evolutionary ecology and population genomics. Main research foci in my lab are Horizontal Gene Transfer, the evolution of pan genomes, and the ecology of bacterial pathogens in the environment. Recent publications include:

Bartlett, A., Padfield, D., Lear, L., Bendall, R. and Vos, M., 2022. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology, 168(12), p.001269.

Soni, V., Vos, M. and Eyre-Walker, A., 2022. A new test suggests hundreds of amino acid polymorphisms in humans are subject to balancing selection. PLoS Biology, 20(6), p.e3001645.

Winter, M., Buckling, A., Harms, K., Johnsen, P.J. and Vos, M., 2021. Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 64, pp.133-138.

Vos, M., 2020. The evolution of bacterial pathogens in the Anthropocene. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, p.104611.

Dickinson, A.W., Power, A., Hansen, M.G., Brandt, K.K., Piliposian, G., Appleby, P., O'Neill, P.A., Jones, R.T., Sierocinski, P., Koskella, B. and Vos, M., 2019. Heavy metal pollution and co-selection for antibiotic resistance: A microbial palaeontology approach. Environment International, 132, p.105117.

Career:

• current: senior lecturer at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
• 2012-2017: lecturer at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
• 2009-2011: postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
• 2007-2009: postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, UK
• 2002-2006: PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology / Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany