About Me

I am a Research Associate in Computational Statistics for ‘Omics Data Analysis’ at OCDEM (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism), part of the University of Oxford.

I work closely with biomedical researchers led by Prof. David Ray in Oxford. I also collaborate with Prof. Andrew Loudon and other researchers at Manchester University, as well as being part of a computational biology group in Manchester, led by Prof. Magnus Rattray. My current work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council.

I completed my PhD in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Adam Letchford and Prof. Paul Fearnhead. The topic of my PhD was “Efficient Analysis of Complex Changepoint Models”, more information on this can be found here.

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• Shift Work is Associated with Positive COVID-19 Status in Hospitalised Patients Robert Maidstone, Simon G. Anderson, David W. Ray, Martin K. Rutter, Hannah J. Durrington and John F. Blaikley - Thorax (awaiting publication), 2021.

• Circadian Control of Hepatitis B Virus Replication Xiaodong Zhuang, Donall Forde, Senko Tsukuda, Valentina D’Arienzo, Laurent Mailly, James M Harris, Peter AC Wing, Helene Borrmann, Mirjam Schilling, Andrea Magri, Claudia Orbegozo Rubio, Robert J Maidstone, Mudassar Iqbal, Miguel Garzon, Rosalba Minisini, Mario Pirisi, Sam Butterworth, Peter Balfe, David W Ray, Koichi Watashi, Thomas F Baumert and Jane A McKeating - Nature Communications. 12(1), 2021.

• Night Shift Work is Associated with an Increased Risk of Asthma Robert J. Maidstone, James Turner, Celine Vetter, Hassan S. Dashti, Richa Saxena, Frank A.J.L. Sheer, Steven A. Shea, Simon D. Kyle, Deborah A. Lawlor, Andrew S.I. Loudon, John F. Blaikley, Martin K. Rutter, David W. Ray and Hannah J. Durrington - Thorax 76(1), 2021.

• Circadian Asthma Airway Responses are Gated by REV-ERBα Hannah J. Durrington, Karolina Krakowiak, Peter Meijer, Nicola Begley, Robert Maidstone, Laurence Goosey, Julie E. Gibbs, John F. Blaikley, Lisa G. Gregory, Clare M. Lloyd, Andrew S. I. Loudon and David W. Ray - European Respiratory Journal 56(6), 2020.

• Circadian Rhythmicity of Sphingolipids in Allergic Asthma Ran Wang, Robert Maidstone, David Ray, Anna Nicolaou, Alexandra Kendall and Hannah Durrington - European Respiratory Journal 56(64), 2020.

• Asthma_ShiftWork_UKB Robert Maidstone - R code to perform the data analysis from Maidstone et al. (2020). Investigates the link between shift work and asthma in the UKBiobank. Data for this analysis can be obtained from the UKBiobank.

• CPOP Robert Maidstone, Paul Fearnhead and Adam Letchford - R code implementing the CPOP algorithm from Maidstone, Fearnhead and Letchford (2017). Includes code used for the simulation study/comparison with NOT and Trend-Filtering.

• FPOP Guillem Rigaill, Toby Hocking, Robert Maidstone and Paul Fearnhead - R-forge repository containing R code for running FPOP (called opfp on R-forge) from Maidstone et al. (2017), and also for reproducing plots from the paper.

• Accurate Prediction of Histone Modification Across the Circadian Time Scale Robert Maidstone, Mudassar Iqbal, Andrew S. I. Loudon, Magnus Rattray and David W. Ray - Poster presented at the “European Biological Rhythms Society (EBRS) Congress” at the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, 2017.

• Changepoint Detection Using Pruned Dynamic Programming Robert Maidstone, Paul Fearnhead and Adam Letchford - Poster presented at the “Inference for Change-Point and Related Processes” workshop at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, 2014.

• Using Wavelets in a Two-Dimensional Context Robert Maidstone - Report submitted as part of my MRes in Statistics and Operational Research, 2012.

• Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics and Agent Based Simulation: Discussion and Comparison Robert Maidstone - Report submitted as part of my MRes in Statistics and Operational Research, 2012.

• robert.maidstone@ocdem.ox.ac.uk
• OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Univesity of Oxford.