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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I have broad interests in population ecology and genetics but my research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animal populations, applications of phylogenetics, use of pathogen genetic markers, molecular ecology and demography of wildlife populations |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
The epidemiological and economic feasibility of using a live test for scrapie in the field at the within-flock and national flock level. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
The comparative epidemiology of fox pathogen communities in the UK. Wildlife epidemiological modelling and quantitative analysis as well as primary data collection. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am interested in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. My research focuses on transmission of Streptococcus agalactiae in networks of humans and animals. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am a veterinary epidemiologist with wide ranging interests in emerging and zoonotic disease, ecology and conservation ecology, and ecosystem health. I am particularly interested in the control of rabies in developing countries. Much of my work is based in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
Specifically interested in the social, cognitive, and emotional precursors of behavior change in individuals and populations in response to infectious diseases and communication about risk; and the effective integration of this sophisticated behavioral information into computational epidemiological models. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research interests include entomology and public health, and particularly the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. I have previously been involved in studies of malaria vector ecology and behaviour in Iran. I am currently investigating the impact of mosquito nutrition on the fitness of African Anopheline vectors and their ability to transmit malaria parasites. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My interests lie in combining laboratory, field and theoretical investigations to identify the evolutionary and ecological factors that stabilize parasite life cycles; and applying this knowledge to highlight weak points in transmission that could be exploited by new and/or existing control strategies. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am interested in the epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens. Most of my previous work has been based in Kenya, looking at the surveillance of influenza A, Leptospira spp and a range of other rodent-borne zoonoses in an urban slum setting. I am currently working on a project in Tanzania, examining the impact and ecology of bacterial zoonoses that cause fever (including Leptospira, Brucella and Coxiella spp.). |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research focuses on the ecology of infectious diseases, particularly rabies, with the aim understanding infection dynamics across spatial scales and the impacts of control efforts. I use a combination of detailed field investigations, vaccination interventions and modeling. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My work explores dispersal patterns in Mountain hares and investigates how
differing harvesting regimes affect population dynamics in this species. |
Will Harvey Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research interests focus on exploring the genetic basis of antigenic cross-reactivity in Influenza A viruses through modelling. The aim is to further develop methods for predicting antigenic difference. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research interests focus on modelling a wide diversity of epidemiological, ecological, and population genetic processes. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My interests include relating physiological mechanisms to life-history theory. I conduct research on a wild population of blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus to investigate the role of reproductive physiology, environmental variables and parental quality in avian sex-ratio adjustment. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research relates to the role of demography in the
spread and persistence of livestock diseases, such as foot-and-mouth
disease, bovine tuberculosis, scrapie, BSE and avian influenza in
poultry. The development of theoretical models of
disease transmission on social networks and applications to the
transmission of livestock diseases using simple differential equation
models, analysis of social networks, statistics and simulations. |
Felix Lankester Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
In 2009 I moved to Tanzania to take up the post of Director of Tanzanian Programs for Lincoln Park Zoo (LPZ). My primary responsibility is the coordination of a disease surveillance and control program called the Serengeti Health Initiative (SHI) / Afya Serengeti Project that specifically focuses on infectious diseases, like rabies, that impact wildlife, livestock and public health. A recent collaboration between LPZ and the University of Glasgow has seen me begin a PhD program looking into the control of malignant catarrhal fever, a viral infectious disease that is transmitted between wildebeest and cattle.
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
As a veterinary epidemiologist, I have interests in a wide range of zoonotic and multi-host pathogens. I have worked mainly in Tanzania on diseases such as rabies, bovine tuberculosis, anthrax and canine distemper, developing new diagnostic and epidemiological approaches to address disease problems from the perspectives of public health, livestock development and wildlife conservation. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am interested in population dynamics, demography, life-history evolution, sexual selection and mate choice. At present my research focuses on linking environmental variation in resource levels to individual strategies in resource allocation, behaviour, signalling and mate choice, using a combination of theoretical modelling and experimental work. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
The study of
the genetic and ecological consequences of a particularly extreme form
of genetic change- whole genome duplication or polyploidy - particularly the consequences of gene duplication at the level of
gene families. I am interested in how such genomic
changes affect interactions between organisms, such as mate choice and
pathogen response. |
Annette MacLeod Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research interest is focused on the interaction between parasites, African trypanosomes, and their hosts, bridging the gap between field based population studies, genomics, and lab-based molecular biology, with a long-term view to exploiting these interactions to combat disease. |
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Teaching in Science Education, CSS |
I have a background in mathematics, software development and science communication, and have a diverse range of interests, spanning the natural and social sciences. I am particularly interested in the representation, modelling and simulation of bottom-up and complex systems. For example, I am currently working on a project that aims to understand changes in human behaviour in the face of outbreaks of infectious disease with a view to establishing their epidemiological impact and incorporating these into a computer simulation of disease spread. |
Louise Matthews |
My interests lie in the application of quantitative tools to infectious
disease data to enhance our understanding of host-pathogen systems. Interests include: the role of individual variability, persistence of rare pathogens in
metapopulations, the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in
the livestock reservoir, and genetic susceptibility and selective
breeding for disease control. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am interested in the integration of behavioural, physiological and neurophysiological techniques to investigate animal welfare issues, primarily those related to modern poultry production. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
The main aims of this research are to determine risk factors and characteristics for potential AI outbreaks occurring in Scotland; and examine approaches to surveillance as an early-warning for potential outbreaks and on-going surveillance as part of the control strategy should an outbreak occur. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My current research is looking at the spatiotemporal distribution of genotypes of M. bovis in both the cattle and badger populations in Britain. By examining data recorded over the previous ten years, I hope to identify the role the two animal species and the different M. bovis genotypes play in the ongoing bovine tuberculosis epidemic. |
Anthony O'Hare Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am interested in the computational techniques used in the modelling of infectious diseases at various scales. The development of theoretical models of disease transmission using stochastic differential equation models. Currently my main research is modelling the within herd dynamics of bovine tuberculosis and the spacial dynamics of infectious diseases such as Foot and Mouth. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am working on modelling bovine tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease spread in livestock. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research seeks to examine parasite thresholds and the use of the metapopulation paradigm in disease and population ecology using a natural system of rodent populations on the island system of Loch Lomond. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am a modeller interested applying mathematical, computational and statistical tools to underexploited biological datasets, particularly focussing on pathogens and vaccines, where large amounts of data are collected on protection for testing purposes which can be reused to investigate vaccine:immune system interaction. I am more generally interested in epidemiological systems and host-pathogen interactions, particularly how they affect our ability to predict the effects of vaccines in the real world. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
I am a theoretical ecologist interested in the the population dynamics and stability of populations and model communities. |
Hannah Trewby Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research aims to integrate the use of phylogenetic and epidemiological information to investigate the spread of bovine tuberculosis, and other bacterial infections, in UK cattle. |
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Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, CMVLS |
My research is focused on measuring the genetic diversity of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus at different spatial scales - within individuals, herds, between farms, and across landscapes - and understanding how patterns of diversity at these different scales are linked. |