Aris Katzourakis
Royal Society University Research Fellow, University Lecturer (elect) in Evolutionary Genomics
Tutorial Fellow at St. Hilda's College
Research Interests
My research interests include viral evolution, genome evolution, and mobile genetic evolution. This research is primarily focussed on studying the evolutionary biology of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). This includes using genomic sequence data to infer the evolutionary biology of retroviruses and their association with their vertebrate host genomes and immune responses, as well as modelling the dynamics of this evolutionary process. Other interests include present day viral pathogen evolution and epidemiology (e.g. HIV).
Other Interests
I serve on the editorial board of Evolutionary Biology
Contacts
| Email: | aris.katzourakis@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
| Phone: | 01865 281847 |
Websites
Selected Publications
- Katzourakis A, Gifford RJ. (2010). Endogenous viral elements in animal genomes. PLoS Genetics 6:e1001191
- Katzourakis A, Gifford RJ, Tristem M, Gilbert MTP, Pybus OG. (2009). The macroevolution of complex retroviruses. Science 325:1512
- Katzourakis, A., Pereira, V., Tristem, M. (2007). Effects of recombination rate on human endogenous retrovirus fixation and persistence. Journal of Virology 81: 10712-10717.
- Belshaw, R., Watson, J., Katzourakis, A., Howe, A., Woolven-Allen, J., Burt, A., Tristem, M. (2007). Rate of recombinational deletion among human endogenous retroviruses. Journal of Virology 81: 9437-9442.
- Katzourakis, A., Tristem, M., Pybus, O.G., Gifford, R. (2007). Discovery and analysis of the first endogenous lentivirus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 6261-6265.
- Katzourakis, A., Rambaut, A., Pybus, O.G. (2005). The evolutionary dynamics of endogenous retroviruses. Trends in Microbiology 13: 463-468.
- Belshaw, R., Katzourakis, A. (2005). BlastAlign: a program that uses blast to align problematic nucleotide sequences. Bioinformatics 21 (1): 122-123.