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

Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
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Attwood SW. et al, (2022), Nature Reviews Genetics
Phylogenetic analysis of migration, differentiation, and class switching in B cells
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Hoehn KB. et al, (2022), PLoS computational biology, 18
The relationship between rising temperatures and malaria incidence in Hainan, China, from 1984 to 2010: a longitudinal cohort study.
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Wang Z. et al, (2022), Lancet Planet Health, 6, e350 - e358
Genomic Epidemiology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics, Gujarat, India.
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Raghwani J. et al, (2022), Emerg Infect Dis, 28
A computationally tractable birth-death model that combines phylogenetic and epidemiological data.
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Zarebski AE. et al, (2022), PLoS Comput Biol, 18

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