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

Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework
Journal article

Dellicour S. et al, (2020), Nature Communications, 11
Publisher Correction: Parallel evolution in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses.
Journal article

Escalera-Zamudio M. et al, (2020), Nat Commun, 11
A computationally tractable birth-death model that combines phylogenetic and epidemiological data
Journal article

Zarebski AE. et al, (2020)
Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics.
Journal article

Rader B. et al, (2020), Nat Med
Clinical, immunological and virological characterization of COVID-19 patients that test re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR.
Journal article

Lu J. et al, (2020), EBioMedicine, 59

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