Keith Jolley

Keith Jolley is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford specializing in applied bioinformatics and bacterial epidemiology. His work focuses on developing genomic tools for pathogen surveillance, including the creation of the PubMLST.org platform and BIGSdb database for bacterial population analysis.

Research interests span:

• Bioinformatics approaches to microbial typing
• Molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens
• Genomic surveillance systems for public health
• Evolutionary dynamics of recombining bacteria
• Antimicrobial resistance tracking

Recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on developing core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) schemes for major pathogens including Neisseria, Staphylococcus, Borrelia, and Streptococcus species. Research consistently integrates genomic data with public health applications, particularly in disease surveillance and outbreak investigation.