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Dr Julian Villabona Arenas

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

I'm a biologist interested in studying the evolutionary dynamics of viruses using phylogenetics.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

Teaching

I co-organize the Genomics and Health Data (2492) module for the MSc in Health Data Science program. I also teach phylogenetics across different program modules.

Research

Research Area
Surveillance
Genetic epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Molecular epidemiology
Virology
Disease and Health Conditions
Dengue
HIV/AIDS
Emerging infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases

Selected Publications

Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 variants during the first two years of the pandemic in Colombia.
Jimenez-Silva, C; Rivero, R; Douglas, J; Bouckaert, R; Villabona-Arenas, CJ; ATKINS, KE; Gastelbondo, B; Calderon, A; Guzman, C; Echeverri-De la Hoz, D; Muñoz, M; Ballesteros, N; Castañeda, S; Patiño, LH; Ramirez, A; Luna, N; Paniz-Mondolfi, A; Serrano-Coll, H; Ramirez, JD; Mattar, S; Drummond, AJ;
2023
Communications medicine
Inferring the multiplicity of founder variants initiating HIV-1 infection: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.
Baxter, J; Langhorne, S; Shi, T; TULLY, DC; Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Hué, S; Albert, J; Leigh Brown, A; ATKINS, KE;
2023
Lancet Microbe
Using phylogenetics to infer HIV-1 transmission direction between known transmission pairs.
Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Hué, S; Baxter, JA C; Hall, M; Lythgoe, KA; BRADLEY, J; ATKINS, KE;
2022
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publisher Correction: Characterising within-hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission events using epidemiological and viral genomic data across two pandemic waves.
Lindsey, BB; Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Campbell, F; KEELEY, AJ; Parker, MD; Shah, DR; Parsons, H; Zhang, P; Kakkar, N; Gallis, M; Foulkes, BH; Wolverson, P; Louka, SF; Christou, S; State, A; Johnson, K; Raza, M; Hsu, S; JOMBART, T; Cori, A; Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group,; COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium,; CMMID COVID-19 working group,; Evans, CM; Partridge, DG; ... De Silva, TI.
2022
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution.
Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Hanage, WP; TULLY, DC;
2020
NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
Number of HIV-1 founder variants is determined by the recency of the source partner infection.
Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Hall, M; Lythgoe, KA; Gaffney, SG; Regoes, RR; Hué, S; ATKINS, KE;
2020
SCIENCE
emmahodcroft/ncov_2021: Release for Geneva Manuscript
Hodcroft, E; Zuber, M; Harkins, E; Neher, R; Wagner, C; Huddleston, J; Bedford, T; Moncla, LH; Hadfield, J; Fzhang12,; Sibley, T; Saleh, A; Falnaji,; Xueying,; Aniafijarczyk,; Nezu, T; Müller, NF; Gall, A; Brito, A; VILLABONA ARENAS, CJ; Bell, S; Kozyreva, V; Eren,; Puller, V; Han, AX; ... Lee, H.
2024
Zenodo
emmahodcroft/ncov_2021
Hodcroft, E; Zuber, M; Harkins, E; Neher, R; Wagner, C; Bedford, T; Hadfield, J; Fzhang12,; Sibley, T; Saleh, A; Falnaji,; Xueying,; Aniafijarczyk,; Tomoyuki-nezu,; Müller, NF; Brito, A; Gall, A; VILLABONA ARENAS, CJ;
2023
Zenodo
Characterising within-hospitalSARS-CoV-2 transmission events using epidemiological and viral genomic data across two pandemic waves.
Lindsey, BB; Villabona-Arenas, CJ; Campbell, F; KEELEY, AJ; Parker, MD; Shah, DR; Parsons, H; Zhang, P; Kakkar, N; Gallis, M; Foulkes, BH; Wolverson, P; Louka, SF; Christou, S; State, A; Johnson, K; Raza, M; Hsu, S; JOMBART, T; Cori, A; Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group,; COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium,; CMMID COVID-19 working group,; Evans, CM; Partridge, DG; ... De Silva, TI.
2022
Nature communications
The importance of saturating density dependence for population-level predictions of SARS-CoV-2 resurgence compared with density-independent or linearly density-dependent models, England, 23 March to 31 July 2020.
NIGHTINGALE, ES; BRADY, OJ; CMMID Covid-19 working group,; YAKOB, L;
2021
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
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