School of Mathematics and Statistics

Dr Christina Cobbold

  • Senior Lecturer (Mathematics)
  • Adviser of Studies (Science and Engineering College Academic & Student Administration)

telephone: 01413304356
email: Christina.Cobbold@glasgow.ac.uk


Personal website

Research Interests

My research interests are in mathematical biology, with a focus on spatial and evolutionary ecology. This involves interdisciplinary collaborations with biologists to develop, apply and analyse mathematical models in order to better understand population processes. I am particularly interested in assessing the effect of habitat fragmentation on species survival and the effect of environmental variation on the evolution and adaptation of life-history traits such as developmental timing. Mathematical approaches include analytical methods for dynamical systems, perturbation theory, and computational methods. Increasingly I have also become interested in formulating and testing quantitative models of biological and antigenic diversity.

Research Groups

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Number of items: 12.

2012

Cobbold, C.A., and Powell, J.A. (2012) Evolution stabilises the synchronising dynamics of poikilotherm life cylces. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 73 (5). pp. 1052-1081. ISSN 0092-8240 (doi:10.1007/s11538-010-9552-1)

Higham, C.F., Morales, F., Cobbold, C.A. , Haydon, D.T. , and Monckton, D.G. (2012) High levels of somatic DNA diversity at the myotonic dystrophy type 1 locus are driven by ultra-frequent expansion and contraction mutations. Human Molecular Genetics . ISSN 0964-6906 (doi:10.1093/hmg/dds059)

Leinster, T., and Cobbold, C. (2012) Measuring diversity: the importance of species similarity. Ecology, 93 (3). pp. 477-489. ISSN 0012-9658 (doi:10.1890/10-2402.1)

2011

Hackett-Jones, E., White, A., and Cobbold, C.A. (2011) The evolution of developmental timing in natural enemy systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 275 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.12.040)

2010

Gjini, E., Haydon, D. , Barry, J. , and Cobbold, C. (2010) Critical interplay between parasite differentiation, host immunity and antigenic variation in trypanosome infections. American Naturalist, 176 (4). pp. 424-439. ISSN 0003-0147 (doi:10.1086/656276)

2009

Cobbold, C.A., Roland, J., and Lewis, M.A. (2009) The impact of parasitoid emergence time on host-parasitoid population dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology, 75 (2-3). pp. 201-215. ISSN 0040-5809 (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2009.02.004)

Hackett-Jones, E., Cobbold, C.A. , and White, A. (2009) Coexistence of multiple parasitoids on a single host due to differences in parasitoid phenology. Theoretical Ecology, 2 (1). pp. 19-31. ISSN 1874-1738 (doi:10.1007/s12080-008-0025-1)

Higham, C., Wilcox, D. , Haydon, D. , Cobbold, C. , and Monckton, D. (2009) Modelling dynamic DNA in mytonic dystrophy. In: Sixth International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, WCSB 2009, 10-12 Jun 2009, Aarhus, Denmark.

2005

Cobbold, C.A., Lewis, M.A., Lutscher, F., and Roland, J. (2005) How parasitism affects critical patch-size in a host-parasitoid model: application to the forest tent caterpillar. Theoretical Population Biology, 67 (2). pp. 109-125. ISSN 0040-5809 (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2004.09.004)

2002

Cobbold, C.A., Sherratt, J.A., and Maxwell, S.R.J. (2002) Lipoprotein oxidation and its significance for atherosclerosis: a mathematical approach. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 64 (1). pp. 65-95. ISSN 0092-8240 (doi:10.1006/bulm.2001.0267)

2001

Cobbold, C.A. (2001) The role of nitric oxide in the formation of keloid and hypertrophic lesions. Medical Hypotheses, 57 (4). pp. 497-502. ISSN 0306-9877 (doi:10.1054/mehy.2001.1373)

2000

Cobbold, C.A., and Sherratt, J A (2000) Mathematical modelling of nitric oxide activity in wound healing can explain keloid and hypertrophic scarring. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 204 (2). pp. 257-288. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1006/jtbi.2000.2012)

This list was generated on Sat May 26 17:28:47 2012 BST.
Current PhD students
Suzanne Doig (Modelling host-parasitoid phenological co-evolution.)