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PDF version of my CV available here.
Postgraduate career
- 2021- Principal Investigator / Senior Researcher, Life Sciences Centre at Vilnius University
- 2020- Consultant, Ring Therapeutics
- 2018- Consultant, The Scripps Research Institute
- 2018- Consultant, Chan Zuckerberg BioHub
- 2016-2018 Mahan Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Mentor: Trevor Bedford.
Education
- 2011-2016 PhD, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Rambaut, secondary supervisor: Prof. Andrew Leigh-Brown; Thesis examiners: Prof. Oliver G Pybus, Prof. Paul Sharp.
- 2007-2011 BSc, Biological Sciences with Honours in Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- First Class, Ashworth Prize and Class Medal
Publications
Research contributions
Funding
- 2023- EMBO installation grant, 3 years, €150 000.
Talks
The modern response to infectious disease outbreaks using genetic sequencing
Talk at Open Readings 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania
Emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.620 with variant of concern-like mutations and deletions
Talk at Health Sciences: Inaugural Symposium of CNRS (France) and Lithuanian scientists, Vilnius, Lithuania
The RNA virus research revolution slumbering in accumulated metagenomic data
Talk at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
The RNA virus research revolution slumbering in accumulated metagenomic data
Talk at CZ Biohub, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Small victories of the Lithuanian SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance programme
Talk at Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
SARS-CoV-2 in Lithuania
Talk at Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lietuvos SARS-CoV-2 sekoskaitos projekto pasiekimai [in Lithuanian]
Talk at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos (remote), Vilnius, Lithuania
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Talk at University of Cambridge (remote), Cambridge, UK
Phylogenetic trees: a technically true data-vis disaster
Talk at BioVis Challenges Workshop at IEEE VIS 2020 (fully remote), Salt Lake City, Utah
Single mosquito metatranscriptomics in California: globe-trotting straws from the haystack that turned out to be needles
Talk at Genome Sciences seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at Imperial College London, London, UK
Beyond (two) button phylogenetics
Talk at ETH Zurich, Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Reconstructing the history and drivers of viral epidemics from genomes of emerging RNA viruses
Talk at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Talk at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Talk at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Reconstructing the history and drivers of viral epidemics from genomes of Zika, MERS-CoV, and Ebola viruses
Talk at University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
Reconstructing the history and drivers of viral epidemics from virus genomes
Talk at CZ BioHub, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Genomic epidemiology and population genetics of emerging RNA viruses
Talk at 6th Annual Disease Modeling Symposium, Bellevue, Washington
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Talk at BIO5 Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Reconstructing the history and drivers of viral epidemics from virus genomes
Talk at School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola virus epidemic
Talk at Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group, Vancouver, British Columbia
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Talk at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic
Talk at IHV2017: 19th Annual International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, Maryland
Reproducible visualisation using Jupyter notebooks
Talk at ARTIC Network meeting, Edinburgh, UK
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at Next Generation Informatics for Global Health: Disease Dynamics and Digital Epidemiology, Hong Kong
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at MIDAS Network Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic
Talk at Combi seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Pattern and determinants of the geographic dissemination of Ebola virus in West Africa 2013-2016
Talk at Virus Genomics and Evolution 2016, Cambridge, UK
Lessons about virus biology from molecular clocks
Talk at University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Population genetics of Ebola virus in West Africa
Talk at SMBE 2015, Vienna, Austria
Population genetics of Ebola virus in West Africa
Talk at Forecasting Evolution?, Lisbon, Portugal
Reticulate evolution: unlikely lessons about RNA viruses and their hosts
Talk at Vaccines and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
Phylodynamics of co-circulating influenza virus lineages
Talk at Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Phylodynamics of co-circulating influenza virus lineages
Talk at School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
Inter-subtype reassortment patterns in influenza B reveal selective maintenance of co-reassorting segment complexes
Talk at Epidemics4, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Antagonistic interactions between co-circulating subtypes of human influenza viruses
Talk at Population Genetics Group meeting 46, Glasgow, UK
Teaching
Professional service
- Ad hoc referee for BMC Bioinformatics, Cell Reports, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Nature Microbiology, PLoS Currents Outbreaks, eLife, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, BMC Genome Medicine, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, PLoS Pathogens, PeerJ, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Scientific Reports, Virology Journal, Virus Evolution.
- Social media manager for Virus Evolution.
Awards
- 2018 SciPy John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Prize, 1st place, for “History of Ebola Virus Epidemic in West Africa 2013-2015”, a matplotlib-based phylogeographic visualisation.
- 2017 Young Investigator Award to attend “Next Generation Informatics for Global Health: Disease Dynamics and Digital Epidemiology” in Hong Kong.
- 2015 SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award to attend the SMBE 2015 meeting in Vienna.
- 2015 Wellcome Trust Travel Grant to attend the “Forecasting Evolution?” meeting in Lisbon.
Public outreach
Genominė epidemiologija: kaip atrodo protrūkiai iš virusų perspektyvos? [Lithuanian]
Vilnius UniversityKaip mutuoja virusai? [Lithuanian]
Mokslo SriubaMokslas be pamokslų. Koronaviruso evoliucija: ko laukti? [Lithuanian]
Lithuanian National Radio and Television / Vilnius UniversityCOVID-19 atmainos [Lithuanian]
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedijaLectures ‘Evoliucija populiacijos lygmeniu: kertinės idėjos’ and ‘Šiuolaikinis mokslo atsakas į epidemijas’ [Lithuanian]
National Student AcademyMokslininkas Gytis Dudas apie pačius˛įdomiausius ir pavojingiausius virusus: mirtiniausią galima sutikti ir Lietuvoje [Lithuanian]
Lithuanian National Radio and TelevisionKoronavirusas: ką jau žinome, o ko dar ne [Lithuanian]
NYLA Talks podcastDar neseniai pasaulis kovojo su mirtinu Ebolos virusu: kaip pavyko suvaldyti epidemiją neturint veikiančios vakcinos [Lithuanian]
Lithuanian National Radio and TelevisionGyventi su COVID-19. Kalba mokslininkai [Lithuanian]
NYLA Talks podcastEbolos virusą perpratęs Gytis Dudas: „Lietuvoje vis dar jauti, kad gali kažką pakeisti“ [Lithuanian]
Moteris magazinePerpratęs ebolą: Gytis Dudas [Lithuanian]
NYLA Talks podcastMERS remains primarily a camel virus for now
Hutch NewsVirus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola virus epidemic
Vancouver Bioinformatics UsersReconstructing the history of the Ebola epidemic
Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open SourceThe March for Science could save lives
The Washington Post2015 April episode
BioPODEpisode 101
Eu:SciEdinburgh plays a part in solving Ebola crisis
The Scotsman