Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut FRS FRSE |
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Fields | Molecular evolution Virology Molecular epidemiology Computational biology[1] |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Thesis | The inference of evolutionary and population dynamic processes from molecular phylogenies (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul H. Harvey[2] |
Notable awards | Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
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Andrew Rambaut FRS FRSE is a British evolutionary biologist, as of 2020[update] Professor of molecular evolution at the University of Edinburgh.[1][3]
Education
Rambaut earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Edinburgh in 1993 followed by a DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford in 1997 supervised by Paul H. Harvey.[2][4][5]
Career and research
He was based at Oxford until 2006, when he took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship position and became Chair of Molecular Evolution at Edinburgh in 2010.[6]
Rambaut's research is primarily on the "evolutionary and epidemiological study of viral pathogens of humans and animals".[6]
In 2007, he published a paper with Alexei Drummond describing BEAST (Bayesian evolutionary analysis sampling trees), a software package for evolutionary analysis by molecular sequence variation, which uses Bayesian inference techniques.[7][8] This is freely available on GitHub.[9] A year later, Rambaut set up Virological, an online "discussion forum for molecular evolution and epidemiology of viruses".[10]
COVID-19
Science reported on 11 January 2020 that Rambaut was the first to publish the genome of the COVID-19 coronavirus after it was sent to him by Edward C. Holmes.[11][12] Holmes has said that it "took 52 minutes from receiving the code [from his Chinese colleague Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang] to publishing" on Virological.[13][14] The BBC Horizon episode The Vaccine stated: "When Chinese scientists published the genetic sequence of a mystery new virus on January 10th 2020, vaccine scientists around the world immediately sprang into action".[15]
Rambaut was one of the authors of the scientific paper The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,[16] which concluded that "SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus".
Awards and honours
Rambaut was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2022,[17] having been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) since 2014.
Rambaut is an attendee of the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).[18]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrew Rambaut at Google Scholar
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- ↑ Virological.org on the Wayback Machine, 2 April 2016
- ↑ “Novel 2019 coronavirus genome”, 10 January 2020. https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319
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- ↑ Kate Aubusson (2020) "Virus rebel Professor Edward Holmes named NSW Scientist of the Year", 26 October 2020, Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/virus-rebel-professor-edward-holmes-named-nsw-scientist-of-the-year-20201026-p568qj.html
- ↑ David Quammen (2020) "The Sobbing Pangolin", 31 August 2020, New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/did-pangolins-start-the-coronavirus-pandemic
- ↑ Horizon Special: The Vaccine, 10 June 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09kw2jz
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