Dr Maxwell Farrell

  • Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (Infectious Disease Ecology)
  • Affiliate Researcher (School of Infection & Immunity)

email: Maxwell.Farrell@glasgow.ac.uk

MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Henry Wellcome Building, Room 413

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993

Research interests

My research focuses on the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions, and developing knowledge and tools support the surveillance of parasites that infect multiple species. I am interested identifying the forces that shape both host and parasite biodiversity, how variation in host-specificity influences the ecology of infectious diseases, and generating methods to predict and track undocumented host-parasite interactions. I tackle these questions using data-driven approaches from macroecology, computational statistics, text mining, and biodiversity genomics. 

 

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Number of items: 22.

2024

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Le Guillarme, Nicolas, Brierley, Liam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-4723, Hunter, Bronwen, Scheepers, Daan, Willoughby, Anna, Yates, Andrew and Mideo, Nicole (2024) The changing landscape of text mining: a review of approaches for ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2027), 20240423. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0423) (PMID:39082244)

Scheepens, Daan, Millard, Joseph, Farrell, Maxwell ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Newbold, Tim (2024) Large language models help facilitate the automated synthesis of information on potential pest controllers. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(7), pp. 1261-1273. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.14341)

Pfenning-Butterworth, Alaina, Buckley, Lauren B., Drake, John M., Farner, Johannah E., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Gehman, Alyssa-Lois M., Mordecai, Erin A., Stephens, Patrick R., Gittleman, John L. and Davies, T. Jonathan (2024) Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases. Lancet Planetary Health, 8(4), e270-e283. (doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00021-4) (PMID:38580428)

2022

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Govender, Danny, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, van der Bank, Michelle and Davies, T. Jonathan (2022) Environmental DNA as a management tool for tracking artificial waterhole use in savanna ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 274, 109712. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109712)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Brierley, Liam, Willoughby, Anna, Yates, Andrew and Mideo, Nicole (2022) Past and future uses of text mining in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 289(1975), 20212721. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2721) (PMID:35582795) (PMCID:PMC9114983)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Elmasri, Mohamad, Stephens, David A. and Davies, T. Jonathan (2022) Predicting missing links in global host–parasite networks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(4), pp. 715-726. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13666) (PMID:35066873)

Carlson, C. J. et al. (2022) The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations. mBio, 13(2), e02985-21. (doi: 10.1128/mbio.02985-21) (PMID:35229639) (PMCID:PMC8941870)

Becker, D. J. et al. (2022) Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs. Lancet Microbe, (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00245-7) (PMID:35036970) (PMCID:PMC8747432)

2021

Albery, G. F. et al. (2021) The science of the host–virus network. Nature Microbiology, 6, pp. 1483-1492. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00999-5) (PMID:34819645)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Park, Andrew W., Cressler, Clayton E., Dallas, Tad, Huang, Shan, Mideo, Nicole, Morales-Castilla, Ignacio, Davies, T. Jonathan and Stephens, Patrick (2021) The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200351. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0351) (PMID:34538147) (PMCID:PMC8450631)

Huang, Shan, Farrell, Maxwell ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Stephens, Patrick R. (2021) Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200350. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0350) (PMID:34538145) (PMCID:PMC8450632)

Morales-Castilla, Igancio, Pappalardo, Paula, Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Aguirre, A. Alonso, Huang, Shan, Gehman, Alyssa-Lois M., Dallas, Tad, Gravel, Dominique and Davies, T. Jonathan (2021) Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200360. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0360) (PMID:34538143) (PMCID:PMC8450630)

Gibb, R. et al. (2021) Data proliferation, reconciliation, and synthesis in viral ecology. BioScience, 71(11), pp. 1148-1156. (doi: 10.1093/biosci/biab080)

Carlson, C. J. et al. (2021) The future of zoonotic risk prediction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200358. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0358) (PMID:34538140)

Schmidt, John Paul, Davies, T. Jonathan and Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 (2021) Opposing macroevolutionary and trait-mediated patterns of threat and naturalisation in flowering plants. Ecology Letters, 24(6), pp. 1237-1250. (doi: 10.1111/ele.13740) (PMID:33786974)

2020

LoScerbo, D., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Arrowsmith, J., Mlynarek, J. and Lessard, J.-P. (2020) Phylogenetically conserved host traits and local abiotic conditions jointly drive the geography of parasite intensity. Functional Ecology, 34(12), pp. 2477-2487. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13698)

Elmasri, Mohamad, Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Davies, T. Jonathan and Stephens, David A. (2020) A hierarchical bayesian model for predicting ecological interactions using scaled evolutionary relationships. Annals of Applied Statistics, 14(1), pp. 221-240. (doi: 10.1214/19-AOAS1296)

2019

Schmidt, J.P., Maher, S., Drake, J.M., Huang, T., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Han, B.A. (2019) Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1782), 20180337. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0337) (PMID:31401967) (PMCID:PMC6711296)

Dallas, T., Gehman, A.-L.M., Aguirre, A.A., Budischak, S.A., Drake, J.M., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Ghai, R., Huang, S. and Morales-Castilla, I. (2019) Contrasting latitudinal gradients of body size in helminth parasites and their hosts. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(6), pp. 804-813. (doi: 10.1111/geb.12894)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Davies, T. Jonathan (2019) Disease mortality in domesticated animals is predicted by host evolutionary relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(16), pp. 7911-7915. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817323116) (PMID:30926660) (PMCID:PMC6475420)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Govender, D., Hajibabaei, M., Van Der Bank, M. and Davies, T.J. (2019) Bacterial diversity in the waterholes of the Kruger National Park: An eDNA metabarcoding approach. Genome, 62(3), pp. 229-242. (doi: 10.1139/gen-2018-0064) (PMID:30495980)

2018

Park, A.W. et al. (2018) Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism-generalism spectrum of mammal parasites. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1874), 20172613. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2613) (PMID:29514973) (PMCID:PMC5879627)

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Articles

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Le Guillarme, Nicolas, Brierley, Liam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-4723, Hunter, Bronwen, Scheepers, Daan, Willoughby, Anna, Yates, Andrew and Mideo, Nicole (2024) The changing landscape of text mining: a review of approaches for ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2027), 20240423. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0423) (PMID:39082244)

Scheepens, Daan, Millard, Joseph, Farrell, Maxwell ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Newbold, Tim (2024) Large language models help facilitate the automated synthesis of information on potential pest controllers. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(7), pp. 1261-1273. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.14341)

Pfenning-Butterworth, Alaina, Buckley, Lauren B., Drake, John M., Farner, Johannah E., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Gehman, Alyssa-Lois M., Mordecai, Erin A., Stephens, Patrick R., Gittleman, John L. and Davies, T. Jonathan (2024) Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases. Lancet Planetary Health, 8(4), e270-e283. (doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00021-4) (PMID:38580428)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Govender, Danny, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, van der Bank, Michelle and Davies, T. Jonathan (2022) Environmental DNA as a management tool for tracking artificial waterhole use in savanna ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 274, 109712. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109712)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Brierley, Liam, Willoughby, Anna, Yates, Andrew and Mideo, Nicole (2022) Past and future uses of text mining in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 289(1975), 20212721. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2721) (PMID:35582795) (PMCID:PMC9114983)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Elmasri, Mohamad, Stephens, David A. and Davies, T. Jonathan (2022) Predicting missing links in global host–parasite networks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(4), pp. 715-726. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13666) (PMID:35066873)

Carlson, C. J. et al. (2022) The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations. mBio, 13(2), e02985-21. (doi: 10.1128/mbio.02985-21) (PMID:35229639) (PMCID:PMC8941870)

Becker, D. J. et al. (2022) Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs. Lancet Microbe, (doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00245-7) (PMID:35036970) (PMCID:PMC8747432)

Albery, G. F. et al. (2021) The science of the host–virus network. Nature Microbiology, 6, pp. 1483-1492. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00999-5) (PMID:34819645)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Park, Andrew W., Cressler, Clayton E., Dallas, Tad, Huang, Shan, Mideo, Nicole, Morales-Castilla, Ignacio, Davies, T. Jonathan and Stephens, Patrick (2021) The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200351. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0351) (PMID:34538147) (PMCID:PMC8450631)

Huang, Shan, Farrell, Maxwell ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Stephens, Patrick R. (2021) Infectious disease macroecology: parasite diversity and dynamics across the globe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200350. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0350) (PMID:34538145) (PMCID:PMC8450632)

Morales-Castilla, Igancio, Pappalardo, Paula, Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Aguirre, A. Alonso, Huang, Shan, Gehman, Alyssa-Lois M., Dallas, Tad, Gravel, Dominique and Davies, T. Jonathan (2021) Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200360. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0360) (PMID:34538143) (PMCID:PMC8450630)

Gibb, R. et al. (2021) Data proliferation, reconciliation, and synthesis in viral ecology. BioScience, 71(11), pp. 1148-1156. (doi: 10.1093/biosci/biab080)

Carlson, C. J. et al. (2021) The future of zoonotic risk prediction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1837), 20200358. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0358) (PMID:34538140)

Schmidt, John Paul, Davies, T. Jonathan and Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 (2021) Opposing macroevolutionary and trait-mediated patterns of threat and naturalisation in flowering plants. Ecology Letters, 24(6), pp. 1237-1250. (doi: 10.1111/ele.13740) (PMID:33786974)

LoScerbo, D., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Arrowsmith, J., Mlynarek, J. and Lessard, J.-P. (2020) Phylogenetically conserved host traits and local abiotic conditions jointly drive the geography of parasite intensity. Functional Ecology, 34(12), pp. 2477-2487. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13698)

Elmasri, Mohamad, Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Davies, T. Jonathan and Stephens, David A. (2020) A hierarchical bayesian model for predicting ecological interactions using scaled evolutionary relationships. Annals of Applied Statistics, 14(1), pp. 221-240. (doi: 10.1214/19-AOAS1296)

Schmidt, J.P., Maher, S., Drake, J.M., Huang, T., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Han, B.A. (2019) Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1782), 20180337. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0337) (PMID:31401967) (PMCID:PMC6711296)

Dallas, T., Gehman, A.-L.M., Aguirre, A.A., Budischak, S.A., Drake, J.M., Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Ghai, R., Huang, S. and Morales-Castilla, I. (2019) Contrasting latitudinal gradients of body size in helminth parasites and their hosts. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(6), pp. 804-813. (doi: 10.1111/geb.12894)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993 and Davies, T. Jonathan (2019) Disease mortality in domesticated animals is predicted by host evolutionary relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(16), pp. 7911-7915. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817323116) (PMID:30926660) (PMCID:PMC6475420)

Farrell, Maxwell J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0452-6993, Govender, D., Hajibabaei, M., Van Der Bank, M. and Davies, T.J. (2019) Bacterial diversity in the waterholes of the Kruger National Park: An eDNA metabarcoding approach. Genome, 62(3), pp. 229-242. (doi: 10.1139/gen-2018-0064) (PMID:30495980)

Park, A.W. et al. (2018) Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism-generalism spectrum of mammal parasites. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1874), 20172613. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2613) (PMID:29514973) (PMCID:PMC5879627)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 08:04:47 2025 BST.

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