Ch. Julian Villabona-Arenas

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🇨🇴 Assistant Prof. at CMMID and LSHTM 🇬🇧. #viruses, #phylogenetics, #epi, #pokemon, #boardgames & typos. Now is a good time to follow me, I'm going to the bar. I also post in 🇧🇷🇫🇷. Opinions are my own. 🏳️‍🌈
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@RobLanfear I work on #phylogenetics of #HIV and other viruses.

Most recent work:
Using phylogenetics to infer HIV-1 transmission direction between known transmission pairs:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2210604119

Please boost:

Who else on here works on #phylogenetics?

Maybe do a quick post with what you work on (e.g. clades, methods, questions...), and include the hashtag #phylogenetics so we can find and follow each other. Feel free to link to a paper or two!

For my part - I work on model selection, phylogenetic algorithms, mixture models, and at the moment am mostly working on the problem of how you find >1 tree in a single alignment, e.g. our latest attempt https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.06.511210v1

Our #Epidemics Special Issue on Dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in low and middle income countries is now available at

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/epidemics/special-issue/10ZJNHZFN76

It's been a pleasure to work with Wirichada Pan-ngum, Hannah Clapham, and Jeanette Dawa on putting this together and to see some of the great work that's being done by teams in LMICs! #epiVerse #epidemiology #xp

Opinion: The evidence remains clear: SARS-CoV-2 emerged via the wildlife trade | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214427119