Houldcroft Group

Virus Genomics

Keywords

Virology, genomics, human evolution

Research Interests

I study the evolution and diversity of double-stranded DNA viruses, human pathogens causing diseases as diverse as respiratory infections and fever to chronic nerve pain and cancer. Whole-genome sequencing allows us to track the spread of viruses in space and time; but it also allows us to detect drug resistance, to see the emergence of novel recombinant strains and to study the ancient evolution of successful human pathogens. My group also study the impact of virus diversity the immune responses to human infections.