Oliver Pybus

Professor of Evolution & Infectious Disease

Research Interests

My research aims to explain the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens, particularly viral infections of humans, including HIV/AIDS, the hepatitis C virus, and Influenza. I hope to understand how evolutionary and ecological processes - which occur on the same timescale for many pathogens - combine and interact in natural populations.

Additional Information: I am Editor-in-Chief of the journal Virus Evolution, published by Oxford University Press. I am also one of the Department of Zoology's Athena Swan Champions.

Recent publications

Monitoring key epidemiological parameters of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Journal article

Kraemer MUG. et al, (2021), Nat Med
Progress and challenges in virus genomic epidemiology.
Journal article

Hill V. et al, (2021), Trends Parasitol
Generation and transmission of interlineage recombinants in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Journal article

Jackson B. et al, (2021), Cell, 184, 5179 - 5188.e8
A mechanistic evolutionary model explains the time-dependent pattern of substitution rates in viruses.
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Ghafari M. et al, (2021), Curr Biol
Global disparities in SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance.
Journal article

Brito AF. et al, (2021), medRxiv

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