#18 Tracking Emerging Viruses (Miles Carroll)

Miles Carroll is leading a research group on High Consequence Emerging Viruses at the University of Oxford, and has previously worked at Oxford Biomedica and as head of research at Public Health England (PHE).

This episode focuses on emerging viruses, which are viruses like coronaviruses and Ebola virus that have rising incidence or are increasing in distribution. We discuss:

• What makes an emerging virus successful
• Fieldwork during the West African Ebola outbreak (2013-2016)
• Using Nanopore sequencing and molecular epidemiology to track emerging viruses
• How to deal with the threat of future spillover events

Miles Carroll Lab Page : https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/carroll-group