Dr John Pettersson
Time: Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 2pm
Venue: Cairns room A001-016
Currently, I am a postdoc at Sydney university, funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS, researching the 'Australian virome' as well as investigating the role of potentially unknown pathogens in patients with fevers and encephalitis with unknown aetiology. I also work as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, focusing on develping next-generation sequencing lab and bioinformatic pipelines for virus sequencing (in particular viral hepatitis). Before this, I completed my PhD in Uppsala university in 2014 on ticks and tick-borne diseases as well as virus evolution.
My main research interests relates to viruses and virus evolution, spread (historic and current) and their ecology in realtion to their vectors and hosts. I am also intersted in factors that shape virus diversity and what drives their emergence. This interest has led me to work with molecular epidemiology and evolution in particular. I have aquired good knowledge and experience in both laboratory work and bioinformatic analyses realted to next-generation sequencing protocolls and tools, as well as virus sequencing and analysis.
Recent publications:
- Pettersson JH-O, Shi M, Bohlin J, Eldholm V, Brynildsrud OB, Paulsen KM, Andreassen Å, Holmes EC. Revealing the virome of Ixodes ricinus ticks from northern Europe. Scientific Reports. 7:10870. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-11439-y
- Gould E, Pettersson JH-O, Higgs S, Charrel R, de Lamballerie X.Emerging arboviruses: Why today?
One Health. 2017 Jul 1;4:1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2017.06.001.
- Bohlin J, Eldholm V, Pettersson JH-O, Brynildsrud O, Snipen L. The nucleotide composition of microbial genomes indicates differential patterns of selection on core and accessory genomes. BMC Genomics. 2017 Feb 10;18(1):151. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3543-7.
- Asghar N, Pettersson JH-O, Dinnetz P, Andreassen Å, Johansson M. Deep sequencing analysis of tick-borne encephalitis virus from questing ticks at natural foci reveals similarities between quasispecies pools of the virus. J Gen Virol. 2017 Mar;98(3):413-421. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000704.
- Eldholm V, Pettersson JH-O, Brynildsrud OB, Kitchen A, Rasmussen EM, Lillebaek T, Rønning JO, Crudu V, Mengshoel AT, Debech N, Alfsnes K, Bohlin J, Pepperell CS, Balloux F. Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PNAS. 113(48):13881–13886. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1611283113
- Pettersson JH-O, Eldholm V, Seligman SJ, Lundkvist Å, Falconar AK, Gaunt MW, Musso D, Nougairède A, Charrel R, Gould EA, de Lamballerie X. How Did Zika Virus Emerge in the Pacific Islands and Latin America? MBio. 2016 Oct 11;7(5). pii: e01239-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01239-16.