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

Addendum: A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology.
Journal article

Rambaut A. et al, (2021), Nat Microbiol
Resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil, despite high seroprevalence.
Journal article

Sabino EC. et al, (2021), Lancet
Establishment and lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK.
Journal article

du Plessis L. et al, (2021), Science
Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity.
Journal article

Volz E. et al, (2021), Cell, 184, 64 - 75.e11
Phylodynamics for cell biologists.
Journal article

Stadler T. et al, (2021), Science (New York, N.Y.), 371

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