Activities
Field Updates
Wytham Updates
Captures and sample collections are ongoing by the Wytham field team, although they have been slow over the spring months due to low capture numbers.
June 2025
Uganda Updates
The Uganda field team plans to begin sample collection in early July!
June 2025
Conferences and Workshops
Find out where members of our team will be sharing updates!
Upcoming
June 30-July 1
International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2025
Emilia Johnson will be presenting a poster titled: "Ecological depletion and zoonotic risk: Capillaria hepatica and RNA viruses in Ugandan small mammal communities."
November 9-13
74th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
PhD student Gladys Atim will be attending the 2025 ASTMH meeting.
Past
June 16-19, 2025
2025 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference
PhD student Gladys Atim attended the 2025 EEID meeting.
May 19-20, 2025
Oxford Martin School Workshop on pathogen spillover and expansion and Public round table
Co-investigators Jayna Raghwani and Daniel Streicker gave talks during the workshop, and Dr. Streicker participated in the panel discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?'. Oliver Pybus was a co-organizer of the workshop.
Publications
2025
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats
Pei, S., Yu, P., Raghwani, J., Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Li, Y., Cheng, Y., Lin, Q., Song, C., Dharmarajan, G., Faust, C. L., Tian, Y., Xu, Y., Liang, Y., Qu, J., Wei, J., Li, S., Zhang, T., Ma, C., Bharti, N., Cazelles, B., Yang, R., Pybus, O., Dobson, A., Stenseth, N., &Tian, H. | Nature Ecology & Evolution | 2025
2024
Pathogen genomics and One Health: A scoping review of current practices in zoonotic disease research
Catalano, S., Battelli, F., Traore, Z. I., Raghwani, J., Faust, C. L., & Standley, C. J. | IJID One Health | 2024