Dr Maxwell Farrell

  • Research Associate (Virology)

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

Biography

I am an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow working with Daniel Streicker at the University of Glasgow and Nicole Mideo at the University of Toronto.

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. 

 

At the University of Glasgow I am working with Daniel Streicker on a meta-analysis of experimental viral infections.

 

Please see Google Scholar for a complete list of my publications

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 14.

2022

Farrell, M. J. , Govender, D., Hajibabaei, M., van der Bank, M. and Davies, T. J. (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, M. J. , Brierley, L., Willoughby, A., Yates, A. and Mideo, N. (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, M. J. , Elmasri, M., Stephens, D. A. and Davies, T. J. (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, M. J. , Park, A. W., Cressler, C. E., Dallas, T., Huang, S., Mideo, N., Morales-Castilla, I., Davies, T. J. and Stephens, P. (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, S., Farrell, M. and Stephens, P. 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, I., Pappalardo, P., Farrell, M. J. , Aguirre, A. A., Huang, S., Gehman, A.-L. M., Dallas, T., Gravel, D. and Davies, T. J. (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, J. P., Davies, T. J. and Farrell, M. J. (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

Elmasri, M., Farrell, M. J. , Davies, T. J. and Stephens, D. 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

Farrell, M. J. and Davies, T. J. (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)

This list was generated on Mon Dec 4 09:06:49 2023 GMT.
Jump to: Articles
Number of items: 14.

Articles

Farrell, M. J. , Govender, D., Hajibabaei, M., van der Bank, M. and Davies, T. J. (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, M. J. , Brierley, L., Willoughby, A., Yates, A. and Mideo, N. (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, M. J. , Elmasri, M., Stephens, D. A. and Davies, T. J. (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, M. J. , Park, A. W., Cressler, C. E., Dallas, T., Huang, S., Mideo, N., Morales-Castilla, I., Davies, T. J. and Stephens, P. (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, S., Farrell, M. and Stephens, P. 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, I., Pappalardo, P., Farrell, M. J. , Aguirre, A. A., Huang, S., Gehman, A.-L. M., Dallas, T., Gravel, D. and Davies, T. J. (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, J. P., Davies, T. J. and Farrell, M. J. (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)

Elmasri, M., Farrell, M. J. , Davies, T. J. and Stephens, D. 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)

Farrell, M. J. and Davies, T. J. (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)

This list was generated on Mon Dec 4 09:06:49 2023 GMT.