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

SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse.
Journal article

Konings F. et al, (2021), Nat Microbiol
Identification of site-specific evolutionary trajectories shared across human betacoronaviruses
Journal article

Escalera-Zamudio M. et al, (2021)
Multiplex qPCR discriminates variants of concern to enhance global surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.
Journal article

Vogels CBF. et al, (2021), PLoS Biol, 19
"Kankasha" in Kassala: A prospective observational cohort study of the clinical characteristics, epidemiology, genetic origin, and chronic impact of the 2018 epidemic of Chikungunya virus infection in Kassala, Sudan.
Journal article

Bower H. et al, (2021), PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 15
Global prevalence and phylogeny of hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug and vaccine resistance mutations.
Journal article

Mokaya J. et al, (2021), J Viral Hepat

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