DrFabricia Ferreira Do Nascimento

My research interest is on computational evolutionary biology. I have been analysing the evolution and geographic distribution of different organisms, including mammals, bacteria and viruses. My main interest is to understand why diversity is generated and why so many species are stable in their environments after millions of years. I have also worked on computational models to understand the evolution of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). ERVs are viewed as ancient viral infections in animal genomes, including the human genome; and are commonly referred to as viral fossils.

I am now a research associate working with Erik Volz. I am currently working on computer simulations of infectious disease modelling and phylodynamics. I have developed models for HIV and SARS-CoV-2 and I am now developing a simulation framework to detect a pathogen of interest using metagenomes and epidemiological models. I am very interested in understading the performace of methods under violation of the underlying mathematical model. 

For details on my research interests and past research funding see my personal website (click link on your left).