Ellie Bourgikos
DPhil student in Biology @ Oxford PSI | studying emerging viruses with phylodynamics and genomic epidemiology | she/her
- 🦟📄 New preprint! Our first large-scale phylodynamic study of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) reveals how mosquito ecology shapes the evolution, persistence, and spread of this understudied arbovirus in North America. Read it here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- This is my first first-author paper, advised by @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social, Phil Armstrong, @viralverity.bsky.social, @chantalvogels.bsky.social and Alex Ciota! Such a collaborative effort with mosquito surveillance orgs and phylodynamic researchers (@sdellicour.bsky.social, @lemeylab.bsky.social)
- JCV is widespread across North America, but we’ve known surprisingly little about how it spreads, evolves, or persists. This gap has made it hard to assess risk or understand its epidemiology. We propose that different types of mosquitoes play unique roles in maintaining and spreading the virus!
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View full threadBy pairing dense sequencing with ecological data, we show how seasonality, mosquito life history, and host interactions structure viral evolution and spread, offering a framework to study other neglected arboviruses!! 🦟🦠🧬 A huge thank you to GLab, my mentors at YSPH, and our amazing collaborators!
