Hello EVOLDIR members

A reminder - Evolutionary evidence can sharpen accounts of how pathogens cross species boundaries. Virus Diversity, Emergence, and Pandemic Prevention (Free Seminar) is a seminar livestreaming October 14 with Edward Holmes (University of Sydney). Metatranscriptomic surveys and phylogenetic inference can clarify how RNA viruses diversify, recombine, and shift between hosts. Comparative analysis of sequence, host-association, and ecological evidence helps evolutionary researchers assess competing explanations for observed viral patterns. These approaches can inform genetics-focused studies of selection, host range, and zoonotic emergence.

Details and registration:
Further information is available on the seminar page.

Best wishes

Michael Zyphur
Director and Co-founder
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