| I have broad interests in the mathematics of biological interactions, particularly host-parasitoid interactions, the evolution of developmental timing, and modelling dynamics of rapid evolutionary processes such as antigenic variation in trypanosomes and mutation leading to myotonic dystrophy. |
| I work on mathematical models of antigenic variation in trypanosome infections. I am interested in the underlying genetic architecture of the VSG archive, together with the temporal dynamics of antigenic diversity over the course of an infection. |
| My interests include mathematical modelling of the ecology of plants using spatial point processes, plankton population dynamics, and in general mathematical biology and physiology. |
Tom Leinster |
I am a mathematician interested in the quantification of diversity. My background is in category theory, an abstract branch of mathematics whose main application to date has been to computer science; but there also turn out to be surprising applications to theoretical ecology. I have been using ideas from category theory to develop a new system for measuring biological diversity. |