Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, April 11, 2025
Edward Holmes, Ph.D., FAA
NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Professor of Virology, The University of Sydney
Redefining Virus Evolution and Emergence Using Metatranscriptomics
The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Liu, Shuqi, et al. “Meta-transcriptomic sequencing reveals divergent RNA viruses in geckos.” Virus Research (2025): 199551.
Takada, Kosuke, and Edward C. Holmes. “Genome sizes of animal RNA viruses reflect phylogenetic constraints.” Virus Evolution (2025): veaf005.
Cobbin, Joanna CA, et al. “Current challenges to virus discovery by meta-transcriptomics.” Current opinion in virology 51 (2021): 48-55.
Geoghegan, Jemma L., et al. “Virome composition in marine fish revealed by meta-transcriptomics.” Virus Evolution 7.1 (2021): veab005.
Shi, Mang, Yong-Zhen Zhang, and Edward C. Holmes. “Meta-transcriptomics and the evolutionary biology of RNA viruses.” Virus research 243 (2018): 83-90.
