DPhil student in Biology @ Oxford PSI | studying emerging viruses with phylodynamics and genomic epidemiology | she/her
Ellie Bourgikos
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For all those at @eeid2026.bsky.social, come to my poster (#21) at the 6pm session tonight to talk about Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV) evolution!! Bonus discussions of bunyavirus ecology, ancient livestock trade, and applications of phylodynamic methods! 🐂📈📜
The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb...
Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...
Incredibly excited to see our work on Jamestown Canyon virus published in Current Biology!! I have grown with and loved this project for 3 years and couldn’t be prouder of the final paper 🩵🧬
Read it here to see how phylodynamics reveals JCV's complex life cycle! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Two more passengers (one in France and one in the US) from the MV Hondius testing positive after being evacuated yesterday. All data here: github.com/kraemer-lab/...
Have you heard of Jamestown Canyon virus? New work by @ebourgikos.bsky.social and @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social lab + friends explains the natural history of one of the rarest diseases in the United States, including a puzzlingly-slow evolutionary rate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Investing in and supporting research on species like JCV is critical to capture the diversity of emerging viruses and understand their ecology! Another huge thank you to senior authors @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social, Phil Armstrong, @viralverity.bsky.social, @chantalvogels.bsky.social, and Alex Ciota!
Joseph Tsui, Ben Reddy and I are recruiting a postdoc @psioxford.bsky.social to work on AI methods for multi-pathogen and multi-country biosurveillance optimisation for epidemic and endemic pathogens.
Closing date May 11th
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Incredible work by Jonathan Pekar et al.: The emergence and molecular evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in United States dairy cattle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
