Yasmin Jiwa

Yasmin is a DPhil student on the University of Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Programme in partnership with The Pirbright Institute. 

She completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science and MSc in Medical Genetics and Genomics at Oxford Brookes University, before working as a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. She worked within the COVID-19 Serology group, in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics, to perform serological surveillance of COVID-19 infections across the UK. Yasmin then moved to the High Consequence Emerging Viruses group, where she worked on projects characterising immune responses to a Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever vaccine, analysing longitudinal responses of bushmeat hunter cohorts to Marburg and Ebola virus, evaluating immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and challenge, and characterising immune responses of a cohort of Ebola survivors. 

Yasmin’s DPhil is working to understand the molecular biology of emerging viruses in the context of pandemic preparedness, in collaboration with the Animal & Plant Health Agency, as well as researchers at Imperial College London.