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SUMMARY:Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary 
 outbreaks - Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Vir
 ology Rega Institute\, K.U. Leuven  
DTSTART:20230511T130000Z
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CONTACT:Caroline Newnham
DESCRIPTION:I will provide an overview of Bayesian phylodynamic developmen
 ts that have proven useful to investigate the evolutionary and epidemiolog
 ical dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 and that could also support genomic surveillan
 ce of other respiratory viruses such as RSV. These approaches build on con
 cepts of data integration\, such as incorporating mobility and individual 
 travel history in phylogeography\, but pose challenges in terms of scalabi
 lity. Finally\, I will demonstrate how virus genomes from old samples may 
 contribute to our understanding of historical epidemics\, and that reconst
 ructions of deep evolutionary histories require dedicated molecular clock 
 models.
LOCATION:Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom
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