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 also have an honorary role at the University of Manchester as part of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
I work closely with biomedical researchers led by Prof. David Ray in Oxford and Prof. Andrew Loudon in Manchester, 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 and I am linked with the Centre for Biological Timing at Manchester.
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.
PhD in Statistics and Operational Research (STOR-i), 2016
Lancaster University
MRes in Statistics and Operational Research (STOR-i), 2013
Lancaster University
Bsc in Mathematics, 2012
Lancaster University
Night Shift Work Increases the 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 - medRxiv (preprint), 2020.
Cardiac Mitochondrial Function Depends on BUD23 Mediated Ribosome Programming Matthew Baxter, Maria Voronkov, Toryn Poolman, Gina Galli, Christian Pinali, Laurence Goosey, Abigail Knight, Karolina Krakowiak, Robert Maidstone, Mudassar Iqbal, Min Zi, Sukhpal Prehar, Elizabeth J Cartwright, Julie Gibbs, Laura C Matthews, Antony D Adamson, Neil E Humphreys, Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar, Michal Minczuk, David A Bechtold, Andrew Loudon and David Ray - eLife (in press), 2020.
The Clock Gene Bmal1 Inhibits Macrophage Motility, Phagocytosis, and Impairs Defence Against Pneumonia Gareth B Kitchen, Peter S Cunningham, Toryn M Poolman, Mudassar Iqbal, Robert Maidstone, Matthew Baxter, James Bagnall, Nicola Begley, Ben Saer, Tracy Hussell, Laura C Matthews, David H Dockrell, Hannah J Durrington, Julie E Gibbs, John F Blaikley, Andrew S Loudon and David W Ray- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (in press), 2020.
Circadian Rhythm of Exhaled Biomarkers in Health and Asthma Maxim Wilkinson, Robert Maidstone, Andrew Loudon, John Blaikley, Iain R White, Dave Singh, David W. Ray, Royston Goodacre, Stephen J. Fowler and Hannah J. Durrington - European Respiratory Journal (in press), 2019.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Reprograms Circadian Output Pathways Toryn M Poolman, Julie Gibbs, Amy L Walker, Suzanna Dickson, Laura Farrell, James Hensman, Alexandra C Kendall, Robert Maidstone, Stacey Warwood, Andrew Loudon, Magnus Rattray, Ian N Bruce, Anna Nicolaou and David W Ray - Arthritis Research and Therapy, 21(47), 2019.
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.