Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-founder of Pathoplexus & Loculus. Founder of the first SC2 variant-tracking website, CoVariants.org. Co-developer of Nextstrain.
Based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel
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| CoVariants.org | https://covariants.org/ |
| Personal Website | http://emmahodcroft.com/ |
| ORCiD | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-2212 |
| Fedified | https://fedified.com/ |
Teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda have now shared the first sequences from the current Ebola (Bundibugyo virus) outbreak using Pathoplexus, just days after cases were confirmed.
Read more about the response to Bundibugyo virus here:
https://pathoplexus.org/news/2026-05-19-ebola-bundibugyo
1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), a species of Ebolavirus.
BDBV has been associated with past outbreaks of Ebola in the DR Congo and Uganda, and a case has been reported today during response to the current Ebola outbreak.
Nextstrain #ANDV trees updated with a few improvements:
- 2 outbreaks marked
- host scientific/common name added
- province now visible on map
- date colouring added
Here's a quick tour of how to change colours, geography & names!
Links to trees here (scroll down):
https://nextstrain.org/groups/hodcroftlab
My ANDV #Hantavirus @nextstrain phylogenies now pull directly from @pathoplexus to incorporate all seqs
I'll continue to improve them, & will keep them updated
Change the Tip Labels in the left-hand menu.
You can see links to all builds, plus tanglegrams at:
https://nextstrain.org/groups/hodcroftlab
📢EVE Group is thrilled to announce the 1st Swiss Enterovirus Symposium🦠, this autumn in beautiful Disentis!
Registration opens soon - but go ahead and
- 📑 submit your abstract: https://forms.gle/Jfh86NqncGpypokr6
- 💵 apply for a student travel grant: https://forms.gle/6GzLKQZoUzu4NCxk6 !
🏔️ See you there!
Website: https://ses2026.org/
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1/ 🦟 Big news: #Pathoplexus now supports Dengue virus & Yellow Fever virus - two arboviruses responsible for over 400 million infections and up to 94,000 deaths per year.
Here's what’s new in our latest update 👇🏻
Read the full update: https://pathoplexus.org/news/2026-03-12-expanding-pathoplexus-arbos 📰
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If you want to try it out, check out the documentation and open-source code here:
🌐 Website: https://eve-lab.org/blog/SimPlot-CL
📂 GitHub: https://github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl
Feedback and feature suggestions are very welcome! 🙂
And again - huge thanks/credit to Keno for this great work!
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