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
November 9-13
74th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
Emillia Johnson will be presenting at the 2025 ASTMH meeting, and Gladys Atim will be attending.
Past
June 30- July 1, 2025
International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2025
Emilia Johnson presented a poster titled: "Ecological depletion and zoonotic risk: Capillaria hepatica and RNA viruses in Ugandan small mammal communities."
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