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Emma Hodcroft

Emma Hodcroft (born 1986) is a British-American molecular epidemiologist at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on the phylogenetics of viruses and other pathogens, mapping the spread and evolution of different genetic variants. Hodcroft is a developer on the Nextstrain project, an open science project that tracks the transmission chains of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens. In 2020, she originated CoVariants.org, a project tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants. Nextstrain's work gained global prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been cited widely in scientific and media coverage. As a scientist tracking the spread of the virus across the globe, Hodcroft has co-authored papers on topics including how the early pandemic spread from country to country, the potential for seasonality, and the prevalence and spread of variants of concern.

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• ▸Andrea Cesalpino
• ▸Achyronychia
• ▸George Emil Palade

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