RESEARCHERS
Bernardo Gutiérrez
DPhil(c), University of Oxford. MSc, University of Edinburgh.
Office: Darwin, DW -103
Phone: 22971-700 ext. 1356
E-mail: bgutierrezg@usfq.edu.ec
Interests
Emerging and zoonotic viruses, genomic epidemiology, phylodynamics, population and evolutionary genetics.
Projects
- SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology: National-level genomic sequence analysis, integration of epidemiological, mobility and genomic data. Temporality of DENV transmission in Mexico incorporating environmental and human behaviour covariates
- DENV transmission dynamics in Southern Mexico: Temporality of DENV transmission in Mexico incorporating environmental and human behaviour covariates
- Re-introduction of the CHIKV IOL lineage into Africa
- Phylogenetic inference of multiple demographic processes
Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Kankasha in Kassala: a prospective observational cohort study of the clinical characteristics, epidemiology, genetic origin, and chronic impact of the 2018 epidemic of Chikungunya virus infection in Kassala, Sudan. [Preprint], Molecular epidemiology. | Bower, H., el Karsany, M., Hussein Hussein, A.A.A., Idriss, M.I., al Zain, M.A., Alfakiyousif, M.E.A., Mohamed, R., Mahmoud, I., Albadri, O., Mahmoud, S.A.A., Abdalla, O.I., Eldigail, M., Elagib, N., Arnold, U., Gutierrez, B., Pybus, O.G., Carter, D.P., Pullan, S.T., Jacob, S.T., Abdallah, T.M., Gannon, B. & Fletcher, T.E. | Download |
| 2020 | Genome sequencing of the first SARS-CoV-2 reported from patients with COVID-19 in Ecuador. [Preprint], Molecular epidemiology. | Marquez, S., Prado-Vivar, B., Guadalupe, J.J., Gutierrez Granja, B., Jibaja, M., Tobar, M., Mora, F., Gaviria, J., Garcia, M., Ligna E., Espinosa, F., Reyes, J., Barragan, V., Rojas-Silva, P., Trueba, G., Grunauer, M. & Cardenas, P. | Download |
| 2020 | Establishment & lineage dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in the UK. [Preprint], Molecular epidemiology, phylogenetics. | du Plessis, L., McCrone, J.T., Zarebski, A.E., Hill, V., Ruis, C., Gutierrez, B., Raghwani, J., Ashworth, J., Colquohun, R., Connor, T.R., Faria, N.R., Jackson, B., Loman, N.J., O'Toole, A., Nicholls, S.M., Parag, K.V., Scher, E., Vasykyeva, T.I., Volz, E.M., Watts, A., Bogoch, I.I., Khan, K., the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Aanensen, D.M., Kraemer, M.U.G., Rambaut, A. & Pybus, O.G. | Download |
| 2020 | Tracking changes in reporting of epidemiological data during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia: an observational study during the first wave. [Preprint], Epidemiology. | Meaver L. Amit, M., Pepito, V.C.F., Gutierrez, B. & Rawson, T. | Download |
| 2020 | Characterizing the genetic diversity of the Andean blueberry (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth.) across the Ecuadorian Highlands. PLoS One, in press. | Vega-Polo, P., Cobo, M.M., Argudo, A., Gutierrez, B., Rowntree, J. & Torres, M.L. | Download |
| 2020 | Parallel evolution in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses. Nature Communications 11, 5511. | Escalera-Zamudio, M., Golden, M., Gutiérrez, B., Thézé, J., Keown, J.R., Carrique, L., Bowden, T.A. & Pybus, O.G. | Download |
| 2020 | Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against importations of COVID-19: a modelling study. The Lancet 395(10227), 871-877. | Gilbert, M., Pullano, G., Pinotti, F., Valdano, E., Poletto, C., Boëlle, P.-Y., D’Ortenzio, E., Yazdanpanah, Y., Eholie, S. P., Altmann, M., Gutierrez, B., Kraemer, M. U. G., & Colizza | Download |
| 2020 | The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Science 368(6490), 493-497. | Kraemer, M. U. G., Yang, C.-H., Gutierrez, B., Wu, C.-H., Klein, B., Pigott, D. M., Open COVID-19 Data Working Group†, du Plessis, L., Faria, N. R., Li, R., Hanage, W. P., Brownstein, J. S., Layan, M., Vespignani, A., Tian, H., Dye, C., Pybus, O. G., & Scarpino, S. V. | Download |
| 2020 | Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the early phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil. Nature Human Behaviour 4, 856-865. | de Souza, W.M., Buss, L.F., da Silva Candido, D., Carrera, J.P., Li, S., Zarebski, A., Moraes Pereira, R.H., Prete Jr, C.A., de Souza-Santos, A.A., Parag, K.V., Belotti, C.T.D., Vincenti-Gonzalez, M., Messina, J., da Silva Sales, F.C., dos Santos Andrade, P., Nascimento, V.H., Ghilardi, F., Abade, L., Gutierrez, B., Kraemer, M.U.G., Braga, C.K.V., Santana Aguiar, R., Alexander, N., Mayaud, P., Brady, O.J., Marcilio, I., Gouveia, N., Li, G., Tami, A., Barbosa de Oliveira, S., Bertollo Gomes Porto, V., Ganem, F., Aparecida Ferreira de Almeida, W., Fontana Sutile Tardetti Fantinato, F., Marques Macário, E., Kleber de Oliveira, W., Nogueira, M.L., Pybus, O.G., Wu, C.H., Croda, J., Sabino, E.C. & Faria, N.R. | Download |
| 2020 | Modelling COVID-19. Nature Reviews Physics 2(6), 279-281. | Vespignani, A., Tian, H., Dye, C., Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Eggo, R. M., Shrestha, M., Scarpino, S. V., Gutierrez, B., Kraemer, M. U. G., Wu, J., Leung, K., & Leung, G. M. | Download |
| 2020 | Open access epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 20(5), 534. | Xu, B., Kraemer, M. U. G., Xu, B., Gutierrez, B., Mekaru, S., Sewalk, K., Loskill, A., Wang, L., Cohn, E., Hill, S., Zarebski, A., Li, S., Wu, C.-H., Hulland, E., Morgan, J., Scarpino, S., Brownstein, J., Pybus, O., Pigott, D., & Kraemer, M. | Download |
| 2020 | Metagenome of a Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Sample from a Confirmed COVID-19 Case in Quito, Ecuador, Obtained Using Oxford Nanopore MinION Technology. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(41). | Márquez, S., Prado-Vivar, B., Guadalupe, J.J., Gutierrez, B., Becerra-Wong, M., Jibaja, M., Tobar, M., Barragán, V., Rojas-Silva, P., Coloma, J., Trueba, G., Grunauer, M., & Cárdenas P. | Download |
| 2020 | Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics. Nature Medicine, Epub ahead of print, PMID: 33020651. | Rader, B., Scarpino, S.V., Nande, A., Hill, A.L., Adlam, B., Reiner, R.C., Pigott, D.M., Gutierrez, B., Zarebski, A.E., Shrestha, M., Brownstein, J.S., Castro, M.C., Dye, C., Tian, H., Pybus, O.G. & Kraemer, M.U.G. | Download |
| 2020 | Understanding the genetic diversity of the guayabillo (Psidium galapageium), an endemic plant of the Galapagos Islands. Global Ecology and Conservation 24, e01350. | Urquía, D., Pozo, G., Gutierrez, B., Rowntree, J.K. & Torres, M.L. | Download |
| 2020 | A case of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in Ecuador. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1473-3099. | Prado-Vivar, B., Becerra-Wong, M., Guadalupe, J.J., Márquez, S., Gutierrez, B., Rojas-Silva, P., Grunauer, M., Trueba, G., Barragán, V. & Cárdenas P. | Download |
| 2020 | Dynamics of conflict during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2018–2019. BMC Medicine 18, 1-10. | Kraemer, M.U.G., Pigott, D.M., Hill, S.C., Vanderslott, S., Reiner, R.C. Jr, Stasse, S., Brownstein, J.S., Gutierrez, B., Dennig, F., Hay, S.I., Wint, G.R.W., Pybus, O.G., Castro, M.C., Vinck, P., Pham, P.N., Nilles, E.J., & Cauchemez S. | Download |
| 2020 | Abdominal tuberculosis in Ecuador, a problem that is still not solved. Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases 20, ISSN 2405-5794. | Rojas, C.L., Polanco, E.C., Vivar, M.C., Aguayo, W.G., Molina, G.A., Gutierrez, B.M. & Cobo, M.M. | Download |
| 2020 | Mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the extracranial carotid artery, a severe and rare disease, a case report. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 71, 382-385. | Molina, G., Mesías, C., Calispa, J., Arroyo, K., Jaramillo, K., Lluglla, L., Gutierrez, B. & Gálvez P. | Download |
| 2020 | Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information. Scientific data 7(1), 1-6. | Xu, B., Gutierrez, B., Mekaru, S., Sewalk, K., Goodwin, L., Loskill, A., Cohn, E.L., Hswen, Y., Hill, S.C., Cobo, M.M., Zarebski, A.E., Li, S., Wu, C.H., Hulland, E., Morgan, J.D., Wang, L., O'Brien, K., Scarpino, S.V., Brownstein, J.S., Pybus, O.G., Pigott, D.M. & Kraemer M.U.G. | Download |
| 2020 | Oropouche virus cases identified in Ecuador using an optimised qRT-PCR informed by metagenomic sequencing. PLoS Neglected Tropical diseases 14(1), e0007897. | Wise, E.L., Márquez, S., Mellors, J., Paz, V., Atkinson, B., Gutierrez, B., Zapata, S., Coloma, J., Pybus, O.G., Jackson, S.K., Trueba, G., Fejer, G., Logue, C.H. & Pullan, S.T. | Download |
| 2019 | Parallel molecular evolution and adaptation in viruses. Current Opinion in Virology 34, 90-96. | Gutierrez, B., Escalera-Zamudio, M., & Pybus, O. G. | Download |
| 2019 | Evolutionary Dynamics of Oropouche Virus in South America. Journal of Virology 94(5), e01127-19. | Gutierrez, B., Wise, E. L., Pullan, S. T., Logue, C. H., Bowden, T. A., Escalera-Zamudio, M., Trueba, G., Nunes, M. R. T., Faria, N. R., & Pybus, O. G."," | Download |
| 2019 | Early Genomic Detection of Cosmopolitan Genotype of Dengue Virus Serotype 2, Angola, 2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases 25(4), 784-787. | Hill, S. C., Neto de Vasconcelos, J., Granja, B. G., Thézé, J., Jandondo, D., Neto, Z., Mirandela, M., Sebastião, C. dos S., Cândido, A. L. M., Clemente, C., Pereira da Silva, S., de Oliveira, T., Pybus, O. G., Faria, N. R., & Afonso, J. M. | Download |
| 2019 | Prenatal gunshot wound, a rare cause of maternal and fetus trauma, a case report. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 59, 201-204. | Molina, G. A., Aguayo, W. G., Cevallos, J. M., Gálvez, P. F., Calispa, J. F., Arroyo, K. A., Guzmán, L. J., Cobo, M. M., Gutierrez, B. M., Toapanta, R. T., & Briceño, M. M. | Download |
| 2019 | Endometriosis Mimicking a Cecum Mass with Complete Bowel Obstruction: An Infrequent Cause of Acute Abdomen. Case Reports in Surgery, 2019, 1-4. | Molina, G. A., Ramos, D. R., Yu, A., Paute, P. A., Llerena, P. S., Alexandra Valencia, S., Fonseca, J. V., Morillo, J. F., López, S. C., & Gutierrez, B. M. | Download |
| 2019 | Molecular characterization of Ecuadorian quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) diversity: implications for conservation and breeding. Euphytica 215(12). | Salazar, J., Roman, V. J., Gutierrez, B., van Loo, E. N., de Lourdes Torres, M., & Torres, A. F. | Download |
| 2019 | Psidium guajava in the Galapagos Islands: Population genetics and history of an invasive species. PLoS One 14(3), e0203737. | Urquía, D., Gutierrez, B., Pozo, G., Pozo, M. J., Espín, A., & Torres, M. de L. | Download |
| 2018 | Regeneration of mortiño (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth) plants through axillary bud culture. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant 54(1), 112-116. | Cobo, M. M., Gutiérrez, B., & de Lourdes Torres, M. | Download |
| 2016 | Preliminary analysis of the genetic diversity and population structure of mortiño (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 64, 14-21. | Cobo, M. M., Gutiérrez, B., Torres, A. F., & Torres, M. de L. | Download |
| 2015 | Genetic diversity and distribution patterns of Ecuadorian capuli (Prunus serotina). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 60, 67-73. | Guadalupe, J. J., Gutiérrez, B., Intriago-Baldeón, D. P., Arahana, V., Tobar, J., Torres, A. F., & Torres, M. de L. | Download |
| 2011 | RcsB Is Required for Inducible Acid Resistance in Escherichia coli and Acts at gadE-Dependent and -Independent Promoters. Journal of Bacteriology 193(14), 3653-3656. | Johnson, M. D., Burton, N. A., Gutierrez, B., Painter, K., & Lund, P. A. | Download |
