Activities
Field Updates
Wytham Updates
Wytham’s fieldwork is in full swing, and the woods are bustling with activity! Capture rates of mice have been consistently high this fall.
November 2025
Uganda Updates
The Uganda field team will be sampling from November into December during the current field trip. So far, operations are running smoothly.
November 2025
Conferences and Workshops
Find out where members of our team will be sharing updates!
Upcoming
December 15-18
British Ecological Society Annual
Meeting 2025
Elise Ringwaldt and Christina Faust will be presenting at the 2025 BES meeting.
Past
November 9-13, 2025
74th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
Emilia Johnson and Jayna Raghwani co-chaired a symposium titled: "Emerging rodent-borne disease in dynamic landscapes: multi-modal insights." Joachim Mariën, Diana Erazo, Sagan Friant, Sarah Budischak and Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala gave talks during this symposium.
Gladys Atim presented a poster titled: "Metagenomics for surveillance of Rodent-borne viruses in Uganda."
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