Etienne de Villiers

Group leader

Bioinformatics

I am the Bioinformatics group leader at the Wellcome – KEMRI – Oxford collaborative research programme in Kilifi, Kenya where I established a Bioinformatics and Genomics platform to support the application of bioinformatics and genomics in research projects at the programme.

Key publications

Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of Kenyan African swine fever virus isolates within p72 genotypes IX and X
Journal article

Bishop RP. et al, (2015), Virus Genes, 50, 303 - 309
TparvaDB: a database to support Theileria parva vaccine development
Journal article

Visendi P. et al, (2011), Database, 2011, bar015 - bar015
Phylogenomic analysis of 11 complete African swine fever virus genome sequences
Journal article

de Villiers EP. et al, (2010), Virology, 400, 128 - 136
Comparative genomics of the Rab protein family in Apicomplexan parasites
Journal article

Langsley G. et al, (2008), Microbes and Infection, 10, 462 - 470
Theileria parva candidate vaccine antigens recognized by immune bovine cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Journal article

Graham SP. et al, (2006), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 3286 - 3291

Recent publications

Peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptomes reveal an over-representation of down-regulated genes associated with immunity in HIV-exposed uninfected infants.
Journal article

Musimbi ZD. et al, (2019), Scientific reports, 9
A peek into Western Indian Ocean microbial richness: a pilot for a coral microbiome study
Journal article

Wambua S. et al, (2019)
Repeated clinical malaria episodes are associated with modification of the immune system in children.
Journal article

Bediako Y. et al, (2019), BMC medicine, 17
Comparative analysis of the vaginal microbiome of pregnant women with either Trichomonas vaginalis or Chlamydia trachomatis.
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Masha SC. et al, (2019), PloS one, 14
Infestation mechanisms of two woodborer species in the mangrove Sonneratia alba J. Smith in Kenya and co-occurring endophytic fungi.
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Jenoh EM. et al, (2019), PloS one, 14

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