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.
June 2026
Uganda Updates
The Uganda field team is gearing up for their 4th field session which will begin in mid-June and run through July. Preparations are going smoothly so far.
June 2026
Conferences and Workshops
Find out where members of our team will be sharing updates!
Upcoming
September 4-7
9th World One Health Congress
Lisbon, Portugal
Emilia Johnson, Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala, Gladys Atim, James Hassell and Barbara Han will be presenting in a symposium titled: " REVEAL: Rodent Ecology and Viral Emergence: Anthropogenic Links. Understanding Rodent-Borne Viruses in a Changing World by Quantifying Viral Dynamics to Predict and Prevent Spillover Risk."
October 5-6
UK Virome Forum
Glasgow, UK
Jayna Raghwani will be a Keynote Speaker at the UKVF-2026.
Avery Holmes, Christina Faust, Jayna Raghwani, Laura Bergner and Smitha Abraham are members of the Organising Committee.
Past
May 18-22, 2026
18th Rodens et Spatium
Kaunas, Lithuania
Ioana Bouros presented a talk titled: "Integrating metaviromic data into the infectious disease dynamics modelling pipeline of rodent population dynamics."
December 15-18, 2025
British Ecological Society Annual
Meeting 2025
Edinburgh, UK
Elise Ringwaldt and Christina Faust present at the 2025 BES meeting.
November 9-13, 2025
74th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
Toronto, Canada
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
Oxford, UK
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
South Bend, USA
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
Oxford, UK
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