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2026

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154
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151
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9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Andrew Rambaut is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Modeling and Simulation, Virology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, including epidemiological and clinical research studies. Other topics of interest include animal virus infections, poxvirus research and outbreaks, as well as bacterial research involving Bacillus and Francisella. Genomics and phylogenetic studies also form a significant part of their work.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew Rambaut include Áine O'Toole, Oliver G. Pybus, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, and Nicholas J. Loman.

Some of the most recent papers they have contributed to are:

  • The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape, 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa, 2022, Nature
  • Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil, 2021, Science

Andrew Rambaut's work is published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Virus Evolution, Nature Medicine, Nature Microbiology, and Science.

In 2014, they were awarded the title Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Best Publications

  • BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

    Alexei J Drummond;Andrew Rambaut

  • Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

    Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard;Dong-jie Xie;Andrew Rambaut

  • Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7.

    Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J Drummond;Dong Xie;Guy Baele

  • Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence

    Alexei J Drummond;Simon Y. W Ho;Matthew J Phillips;Andrew Rambaut

  • BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

    Remco R. Bouckaert;Joseph Heled;Denise Kühnert;Timothy G. Vaughan

  • The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.

    Kristian G. Andersen;Kristian G. Andersen;Andrew Rambaut;W. Ian Lipkin;Edward C. Holmes

  • BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis.

    Remco Bouckaert;Remco Bouckaert;Timothy G Vaughan;Timothy G Vaughan;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Sebastián Duchêne

  • Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

    Marc A Suchard;Philippe Lemey;Guy Baele;Daniel L Ayres

  • Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences

    A J Drummond;A Rambaut;B Shapiro;O G Pybus

  • SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape.

    William T. Harvey;Alessandro M. Carabelli;Ben Jackson;Ravindra K. Gupta

  • Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic.

    Gavin J. D. Smith;Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna;Justin Bahl;Samantha J. Lycett

  • A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology.

    Andrew Rambaut;Edward C. Holmes;Áine O’Toole;Verity Hill

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • Exploring the temporal structure of heterochronous sequences using TempEst (formerly Path-O-Gen)

    Andrew Rambaut;Tommy T. Lam;Luiz Max Carvalho;Oliver G. Pybus

  • Bayesian phylogeography finds its roots.

    Philippe Lemey;Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard

  • Seq-Gen: an application for the Monte Carlo simulation of DNA sequence evolution along phylogenetic trees

    Andrew Rambaut;Nicholas C. Grassly

  • Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance

    Joshua Quick;Nicholas J. Loman;Sophie Duraffour;Jared T. Simpson;Jared T. Simpson

  • Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak

    Stephen K. Gire;Stephen K. Gire;Augustine Goba;Kristian G. Andersen;Kristian G. Andersen;Rachel S G Sealfon;Rachel S G Sealfon

  • Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil.

    Nuno R Faria;Thomas A Mellan;Charles Whittaker;Ingra M Claro

  • Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data.

    Andy Purvis;Andrew Rambaut

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Marc A. Suchard
Marc A. Suchard University of California, Los Angeles
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney
Nuno Rodrigues Faria
Nuno Rodrigues Faria Imperial College London
Alexei J. Drummond
Alexei J. Drummond University of Auckland
Trevor Bedford
Trevor Bedford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nicholas J. Loman
Nicholas J. Loman University of Birmingham
Kristian G. Andersen
Kristian G. Andersen Scripps Research Institute
Paul Kellam
Paul Kellam Imperial College London

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