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

Identification of common deletions in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.
Journal article

Liu Z. et al, (2020), J Virol
Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil
Journal article

Candido DDS. et al, (2020)
Serial Interval Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Brazil
Journal article

Prete CA. et al, (2020)
Towards an understanding of the avian virome.
Journal article

François S. and Pybus OG., (2020), J Gen Virol
Genomic surveillance reveals multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Northern California.
Journal article

Deng X. et al, (2020), Science

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