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Pathogen genomics and evolution

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Amalio Telenti

Amalio Telenti is a Spanish-born infectious diseases physician and genomic scientist known for HIV genomics, tuberculosis drug-resistance research, and SARS-CoV-2 variant studies, with senior roles at Human Longevity and Vir Biotechnology.

Anne Marie France

Anne Marie France is an American CDC epidemiologist who led the field-validated method for estimating recent tuberculosis transmission and now leads CDC's national HIV cluster detection program.

Brian G. Spratt

Brian G. Spratt is a British molecular microbiologist at Imperial College London known for developing multilocus sequence typing, a standard method for tracking bacterial strains.

Charles Y. Chiu

Charles Y. Chiu is an American infectious-disease physician and microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who developed metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose mystery infections.

Christian Happi

Christian Tientcha Happi, born 1968 in Cameroon, is a molecular biologist who directs ACEGID at Redeemer's University in Nigeria and sequenced Africa's first SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Christophe Fraser

Christophe Fraser is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Oxford known for HIV evolution research and for proposing the NHS COVID-19 app in 2020.

David W. Eyre

David W. Eyre is an infectious diseases physician-scientist and Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford, known for genomic studies of hospital outbreaks and COVID-19 transmission.

Edward C. Holmes

Edward C. Holmes is an evolutionary virologist and Professor at the University of Sydney who studies virus emergence and evolution, and first publicly released the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Gustavo Palacios

Gustavo F. Palacios is an Argentine virologist and molecular epidemiologist, Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai since 2021, known for pathogen discovery during outbreaks, including a new transplant-transmitted arenavirus.

Michael Worobey

Michael Worobey is a Canadian evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who uses viral genomes to pinpoint how HIV, the 1918 influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 emerged and spread.

Nathan D. Grubaugh

Nathan D. Grubaugh is an American virologist and genomic epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health who sequences virus genomes to track outbreaks of Zika, dengue, and COVID-19.

Pardis C. Sabeti

Pardis C. Sabeti, also known as Pardis Sabeti, is an Iranian-born American computational geneticist and physician-scientist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, known for genomic work on Ebola and Lassa.

Peter Simmonds

Peter Simmonds is a virologist known for his work on the evolution and taxonomy of human viruses, especially hepatitis C virus, and is now Visiting Professor at the University of Turku.

Robert D. Burk

Robert D. Burk is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose longitudinal studies of human papillomavirus infection have shaped cervical cancer prevention and screening.