Dr Emma Harding

Emma is a postdoctoral researcher interested in the evolution and diversity of viruses. 

Emma has a background in molecular virology and begun her studies with the development of broad-spectrum antivirals against flavivirus RdRp proteins. Transitioning to bioinformatics during her PhD, she expanded her work to encompass workflow development, viral discovery and virus evolution. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia and now works at the University of Oxford in the paleovirology lab. 

Using and developing bioinformatic methods, her current work integrates endogenous viral elements to answer questions about viral molecular evolution, host immunity, horizontal gene transfer and vertebrate genomics. 

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