Robert A. Edwards

Career Trajectory

Research Cluster Map

Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Keep it together: Soil core translocation improves establishment of donor‐like microbial communities

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2026-06-01

• Computational prediction resolves thousands of homooligomeric phage protein structures

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-05-25

• Co-migration of hundreds of microbial species over metres drives selection and promotes non-motile hitchhikers

  Nature Communications · 2026-05-19

• Infection of 5xFAD mice with a mouse‐adapted SARS‐CoV‐2 does not alter Alzheimer's disease neuropathology yet induces widespread changes in gene expression across diverse cell types

  UNC Libraries · 2026-05-07

• Abstract LB302: Investigation of the immune microenvironment of breast cancer brain metastasis using single-cell spatial genomics

  Cancer Research · 2026-04-17

• Baktfold: Sensitive protein functional annotation across the microbial tree of life using structural information

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-04-01

• Infection of 5xFAD mice with a mouse‐adapted SARS‐CoV‐2 does not alter Alzheimer's disease neuropathology yet induces widespread changes in gene expression across diverse cell types

  Alzheimer s & Dementia · 2026-04-01

• Interactions of Mucus Monosaccharides and the Epidermal Microbiome in Four Benthic Elasmobranchs

  Environmental Microbiology Reports · 2026-03-07 · 1 citations

• Soil Microbial Functions Indicate Persistent Agricultural Legacies and Potential Alternative States Following Restoration Plantings

  Ecology and Evolution · 2026-02-26

• Soil Microbial functions indicate persistent agricultural legacies and potential alternative states following restoration plantings

  Figshare · 2026-02-25

• Deciphering the etiology of the 2024 outbreak of undiagnosed febrile illness in Panzi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Nature Medicine · 2026-02-18

• Microbial Ecological Signatures Predict Pathogen Emergence and Multidrug Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis Airways up to a Year in Advance

  medRxiv · 2026-01-02

• <i>agtools</i>: a software framework to manipulate assembly graphs.

  PubMed · 2026-01-01

• Soil Microbial functions indicate persistent agricultural legacies and potential alternative states following restoration plantings

  Open MIND · 2026-01-01

• Protein structure-informed bacteriophage genome annotation with Phold

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2025-12-08 · 21 citations

• Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-11-05

• VirJenDB: a FAIR (meta)data and bioinformatics platform for all viruses

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2025-10-23 · 2 citations

• Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut

  Nature · 2025-10-15 · 20 citations

• Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communitiesPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-28 · 1 citations

• Contrasting Microbial Taxonomic and Functional Colonisation Patterns in Wild Populations of the Pan‐Palaeotropical C4 Grass, <i>Themeda triandra</i>

  Plant Cell & Environment · 2025-09-26 · 1 citations