Senior Researcher in Phylodynamics
Pybus group; The Royal Veterinary College
Department of Biology at the University of Oxford
“How do viruses persist in changeable environments?”
Dr. Jayna Raghwani is a computational biologist and uses empirical and theoretical approaches from evolutionary genetics, genomics, and ecology to study viral evolution and transmission at multiple scales. Currently, her research focuses on avian influenza transmission dynamics in Southeast Asia as part of the One Health One Poultry Hub. She is also part of the national consortium led by the APHA to better understand how to prevent and control avian influenza outbreaks in the UK.
Before her current post, her postdoctoral research at Oxford and Duke focused on the infection and epidemic behaviour of rapidly evolving human viruses, particularly HIV-1, HCV, and seasonal influenza. However, as sequencing technologies become more affordable, she is also interested in developing new methods to analyze metagenomic data sampled from wild animal populations across spatiotemporal scales.