Rowan Durrant
Email: r.durrant.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Twitter: @RowanGDurrant
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-2052
Research Summary
Research Summary
My PhD project focuses on the disease dynamics of canine rabies in a metapopulation system. I am working on reconstructing transmission trees using genetic data, developing methods to assess surveillance, and building metapopulation models.
Funding: EPSRC/MVLS PhD studentship
Academic History
2021 - present: PhD Infectious Diseases - University of Glasgow - "Metapopulations and infectious disease dynamics"
2019 - 2020: MRes Biosciences - Swansea University - "Factors driving the spread of Devil Facial Tumour Disease on a regional scale"
2016 - 2019: BSc Genetics - Swansea University - "A statistical model to simulate scrapie outbreaks in sheep (Ovis aries)"