Genomic tracking of pathogens old and new

Lucy van Dorp is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Principle researcher at UCL Genetics Institute, University College London. Her research focuses on the use of computational genomic tools to determine the factors underlying the genetic diversity of zoonotic pathogens. Her work spans bacterial, viral and eukaryotic systems and has informed on real time pandemic interventions as well as supporting the reconstruction of events in pathogen histories in deep time using ancient DNA techniques.