Worms and Bugs

When should lockdown be implemented? Devising cost-effective strategies for managing epidemics amid vaccine uncertainty

Nathan Doyle (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Detecting superspreaders in wildlife reservoirs of disease

Evandro Konzen (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Understanding Virus Evolution and Outbreaks through Phylodynamics: From Theory to Practice

Marina Zamudio (UCL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Generating Medium-Term Projections of Covid-19 for Wales.

Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University) & Alma Rahat (Swansea University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Short term forecasting of Acute Respiratory Infections and their impact on NHS hospital pressures for situational awareness over Winter.

Jonathon Mellor (UKHSA).

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Within-host models of viral and bacterial infection

Martin Lopez-Garcia (University of Leeds).

Zoom.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Collaborating across disciplines to model the elimination of an endemic livestock disease

Ewan Colman - University of Bristol.

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Integrating economics and behaviour into disease transmission modelling

David Haw, University of Liverpool.

Zoom.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Real-world effectiveness of oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Carlos Wong.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Comparative insights from modelling animal and human infectious diseases and applications for One Health

Emily Nixon (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

Health care expenditures and national security: transformation of causal patterns in time of COVID-19

Alina Vysochyna (Sumy State University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 August 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease

Helena Stage (University of Potsdam).

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 July 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Detection of outbreaks using epidemiological and genetic data: case-study of Campylobacter infections in England

Laura Guzman (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Lessons from the COVID-19 on pandemic preparedness and response in Hong Kong

Kathy Leung, HKU.

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Trade-off theory and the surprising efficacy of early public health interventions: the case of faecal-oral diseases in England c.1840-1930

Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling of the transmission of H5N1 in poultry farms and wild birds in the UK - preliminary results

Mike Tildesley and Jimmy McKendrick (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease

Helena Stage.

Zoom.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response

Dr Adam Kucharski.

Zoom.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response

Dr Adam Kucharski.

Zoom.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Approximating First Passage and Peak Timing Distributions for Epidemics

Jacob Curran-Sebastian, University of Manchester.

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Warwick-Lancaster global COVID-19 model

Ioana Bouros, University of Warwick.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Tragicomedy of the COVID-19 Response in Latvia – confession of a policymaker/modeller

Nikita Trojanskis - University of Oxford.

Zoom.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Incorporating contact network structures into SARS-CoV-2 transmission models for care homes

Li Pi, University of Oxford.

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

A novel discrete-time model with waning immunity

Desmond Lai, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Models and Bayesian inference for disease outbreaks with whole-genome-sequence data

Philip O'Neill, University of Nottingham.

Zoom.

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling informing policy: Process and the Modeler’s role

Hannah Clapham, National University of Singapore.

Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Worms and Bugs

Improving the representativeness of UK’s national COVID-19 Infection Survey through spatio-temporal regression and post-stratification

Koen Pouwels, Oxford.

Zoom.

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Inference on compartmental models: COVID-19 modelling at Sussex

Eduard Campillo-Funollet, Lancaster.

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens

Maria A. Gutierrez - University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the impact of social behaviour on infectious disease transmission: what we do and don't know!

Alison Hale, University of Lancaster.

Zoom.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling informing COVID policy in a highly vaccinated Singapore

Hannah Clapham (NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Data-driven approaches to surveillance of Covid-19 in the UK.

Ben Swallow University of St Andrews.

Zoom.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Prediction Models For COVID-19 – lessons learnt

Glen Martin (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5

Sam Brand, University of Warwick.

Zoom.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5

Sam Brand, University of Warwick.

Zoom.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

An estimation framework to study epidemic fade-out using multiple outbreak data

Punya Alahakoon, University of Melbourne.

Zoom.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Predictive performance of Covid-19 forecasts

Seb Funk LSHTM.

Zoom.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Introducing JUNE

Frank Krauss, Durham University.

Zoom.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Identifying sources of transmission for zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses

Dr Jennifer Lord, Department of Vector Biology Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Zoom.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Critical weaknesses in shielding strategies for COVID-19

Cameron Smith & Kit Yates, University of Bath.

Zoom.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

What activity types posed the greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection for a university community?

Kirsty Bolton (University of Nottingham) & Emma Fairbanks (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the impact of asymptomatic testing and isolation policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in workplaces

Carl Whitfield, University of Manchester.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

SARS-CoV-2 evolution: (Dis)entangled on multiple scales

Simon Rella, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

What kind of distance underlies influenza transmission in the US?

Maria Tang, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Estimating global spatial dynamics and vaccine-induced fitness changes of Bordetella pertussis using genetic data.

Noemie Lefrancq (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

The ethics of being a disease modeler

Dr Nathaniel Hupert, Weill Cornell Medicine.

Zoom.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

A household-structured approach to modelling non-pharmaceutical interventions

Dr Joe Hilton, University of Warwick.

Zoom.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub: a multi-model effort towards addressing uncertainty during the pandemic in the United States

Dr Rebecca Borchering, The Pennsylvania State University.

Zoom.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in England using a metapopulation approach

Dr Christopher Davis (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

The progression of severity of variants throughout the pandemic

Dr David Pascall (MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Effectiveness of symptomatic and asymptomatic testing strategies on reducing transmission in a population with high vaccination coverage &Inferring the relationship between viral load and infectiousness using contact tracing data

Dr Miguel Silva, University of Manchester & Dr Martyn Fyles, University of Manchester.

Zoom.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Functional Phylogenetics on the Scale of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Dr Emily Scher, University of Edinburgh.

Zoom.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Markers of mucosal immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

Dr Amy Thomas, University of Bristol.

Zoom.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

A multidisciplinary approach to SARS-CoV-2 modeling

Dr Josh Schiffe, Fred Hutchingson Cancer Research Centre.

Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

A renewal equation model for disease transmission dynamics with contact tracing

Dr Francesca Scarabel, University of Manchester.

Zoom.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Cluster outbreaks: are they isolated incidents and how can they be managed?

Dr Helena Stage, University of Manchester.

Zoom.

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Bayesian estimation of the instant growth rate of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases in England and forecasting, using Gaussian processes.

Dr Laura Guzman Rincon, University of Warick.

Zoom.

Wednesday 08 September 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

A longitudinal survey of contacts, symptoms, and behaviour in a university setting: Results, applications, and participants’ perspectives

Dr Emily Nixon, University of Bristol.

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Quantifying social mixing patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic; a cross-sectional study

Jessica Bridgen, Univerity of Lancaster.

Zoom.

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Selection in human viruses: From HIV to SARS-CoV-2 (and what the future might hold)

Dr Katrina Lythgoe, BDI, University of Oxford.

Zoom.

Wednesday 07 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Open and FAIR – how can we improve traceability of modelling for public policy?

Dr Richard Reeve, University of Glasgoe.

Zoom.

Wednesday 30 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Wastewater epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland: a tool for surveillance support?

Dr Gianluigi Rossi, University of Edinburgh.

Zoom.

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

An agent-based model to simulate workplace transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Dr Nicholas Warren, Health and Safety Executive, Science and Research Centre.

Zoom.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

LSOA level risk model and early detection system; a framework to incorporate mobility, vaccination, health background, land use factors, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in evaluating COVID19 prevalence and risk

Dr Kaveh Jahanshahi, Office of National Statistics.

Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Novel methods for estimating the instantaneous and overall COVID-19 case fatality ratio among care home residents in England

Dr Chris Overton, University of Manchester.

Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the impact of lateral flow testing and isolation of close contacts on Covid-19 transmission within secondary schools in England

Trystan Leng, University of Warwick.

Zoom.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Fast predictions of the COVID-19 spatiotemporal infection risk in indoor space

Dr Katerina Kaouri and Dr Thomas Woolley Cardiff University.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Building an open platform for pandemic modelling

Professor Simon Frost, Microsoft Research.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Genomics and epidemiology of the novel SARS-CoV-2 P.1 lineage in Manaus

Professor Samir Bhatt, Imperial College London and University of Copenhagen .

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Who gets freshers' flu and why? - a survey of coughs, colds and freshers' flu in the University of Cambridge, 2007-2008

Maria Tang, University of Cambridge.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Visualizing uncertain advice for command decision makers

Professor Nick Holliman (Newcastle University).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: Lessons from September-December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return

Dr Edward Hill, University of Warwick.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Estimating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 on mortality due to COVID-19 in the UK

Dr Rob Challen, University of Exeter.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

TALK POSTPONED

Conni Ciavarella, Imperial.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Multi-Scale Superinfection Models in Evolutionary Epidemiology

Helena Stage, Manchester.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling Large Scale Epidemiological Modelling of Infectious Tree Disease

John Holden, Leeds.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling Ebola vaccination

Roz Eggo, LSHTM.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Co-infections by non-interacting pathogens are not independent: deriving new tests of interaction

Nik Cunnifee, Department of Plant Sciences.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

TALK POSTPONED

Nik Cunniffe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Ecology and emergence of bat-borne viruses

Emma Glennon, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Genomic and epidemiological surveillance of Zika and yellow fever virus: lessons from Brazil

Nuno Faria, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

When does spatial diversification usefully maximise the durability of crop disease resistance?

Benjamin Watkinson-Powell, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Mathematical modelling at different stages of an infectious disease outbreak

Robin Thompson, Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Should we expect attack rates for infectious disease to vary across small spatial scales?

David Haw (Imperial).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling social structure and infectious disease: transmission, control and equity

James Munday (LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

BBC Pandemic, National Edition

Petra Klepac (DAMTP and LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

BBC Pandemic, Haslemere Edition: Evaluating epidemic dynamics using fine-scale interpersonal distance data from mobile phones

Stephen Kissler (DAMTP).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Accelerating the control of bovine TB in developing countries

Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling avian influenza outbreak risk in the Australian chicken industry

Prof. Katie Glass, Australian National University.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 July 2018, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

A novel method to quantify the impact of weather on Lyme disease

Gianni Loiacono (PHE).

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Short talks: Sophie Ip & Veni Karamitsou

Mulitple speakers.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Short talks: Elliott Bussell, Theresa Reiker, Chris Illingworth

Multiple speakers.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Hunting for viral packaging signals

Dr Julia Gog (DAMTP).

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Distance metrics in modelling the spatial spread of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the US

Maria Tang & Stephen Kissler, DAMTP.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling fungicide resistance management strategies

James Elderfield, Plant Sciences.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Bayesian reconstruction of a spatially heterogeneous epidemic: Characterising the geographic spread of 2009 A/H1N1pdm infection in England

Paul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

The antigenic evolution of influenza: Drift or Thrift?

Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Mathematical modelling of the immune response to influenza

Ada Yan, University of Melbourne.

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Take two moments to gather your wits. Likelihood-free inference for within-host dynamics of bacterial infection

Olivier Restif (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 12:15-13:30

Worms and Bugs

The Management of Population Immunity

Flavio Toxvaerd (Faculty of Economics).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 11:45-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Optimal design of experiments

David Price (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 12:15-13:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the Impact of MenAfriVac in the African Meningitis Belt

Andromachi Karachaliou (University of Cambridge Department of Veterinary Medicine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 12:15-13:30

Worms and Bugs

A phylodynamics pipeline for pathogen sequence data

Mukarram Hossain (University of Cambridge Department of Veterinary Medicine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:00-13:30

Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model

Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR 12.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 12:00-13:30

Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model

Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR 12.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 12:00-13:30

Worms and Bugs

Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model

Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 12:00-13:30

Worms and Bugs

How to measure social mixing?

Timo Smieszek, Public Health England and Imperial College.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Calibration of an individual based HIV computer model using emulation and history matching

Ioannis Andrianakis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Worms and Bugs

Estimating HLA associated selection in HIV-1: The Great Escape.

Duncan Palmer.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Worms and Bugs

Rubella modeling

Jessica Metcalf.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Worms and Bugs

A novel emulation-based algorithm for likelihood-free model calibration

Helen's host is Ellen Brooks-Pollock (ebp20)

Helen Johnson, LSHTM.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 29 April 2013, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Challenges in using maximum-likelihood inference for multi-dimensional stochastic models: the case of within-host dynamics of Salmonella

Olivier Restif (Dept. Vet. Med.).

DD48, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 04 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Selection and clonal interference in a seasonal influenza virus

Chris Illingworth (Sanger).

DD48, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 18 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Cattle mixing patterns impact bovine tuberculosis transmission

Dr Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Dept. Vet. Med..

CC43, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 19 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Self-enforcing agreements in the control of immunizing infectious

Dr Petra Klepac, DAMTP.

CC43, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 05 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Reflections on Random Forests

Richard Dybowski, Dept. Vet. Med..

CC43, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 22 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Spatial dynamics, loss of immunity and the adult carriage of Pertussis

Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

CC43, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 08 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

The Optimal Control of Infectious Diseases via Prevention and Treatment

Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Economics, University of Cambridge.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 21 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Explaining the age pattern of immunity to seasonal influenza

Adam Kucharski, DAMTP.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 30 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Non-diffusive spread of White-nose syndrome caused by spatial heterogeneities and climate

Prof. John Drake, University of Georgia.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 05 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Evolution of plant pathogens in response to host resistance

Dr Giovanni Lo Iacono, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 20 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

A new inference approach for respondent driven sampling

Dr Yakir Berchenko, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 06 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Collective human behaviour and epidemics: what (else) can we learn from mobile phone data?

Leon Danon, University of Warwick.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 23 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Models of the antibody response to malaria infection and vaccination in African children

Michael White, Imperial.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 21 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Exact simulation-based Bayesian inference for epidemic models

TJ McKinley, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 07 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Optimal Treatment of an SIS Disease with Two Strains

Selma Telalagic, Faculty of Economics.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 24 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Persistence and the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain

Andrew Conlan (Vet School).

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Monday 10 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Economic and epidemic optima for control of immunising infections

Dr Petra Klepac, Princeton.

DD47, Cripps Court, Queens' College.

Friday 23 September 2011, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Interplay of Ecological and Evolutionary Processes in Infectious Disease Dynamics: Antimicrobial Resistance and Immune Escape

Dr Roger Kouyos, Princeton.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 15 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Dr Claude Loverdo, UCLA.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling cell migration and adhesion during development

R.N. Thompson, University of Oxford.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR15.

Friday 14 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Latency and reinfection in Tuberculosis

Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Timing of emergence and epidemic peak of novel influenza strains

Ryosuke Omori - Kyushu University, Japan.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Worms and Germs - helminths as vectors of pathogens.

Sarah Perkins, University of Cardiff.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Emergence of HIV drug resistance during combinational therapy.

John Kitayimbwa.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the management of HIV testing and counselling in a developing country.

Dr Claver Bhunu, visiting fellow at Clare Hall from the National University of Zimbabwe.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Evolution and emergence of a novel human pathogen

Nim Arinaminpathy (University of Oxford).

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Detecting important mutations and epistatic interactions in H5N1 and H1N1 Influenza viruses using Bayesian Graphical Models.

Sam Lycett (University of Edinburgh).

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge DAMTP).

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Marc Baguelin, HPA Colindale.

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Statistical Analysis of Hospital Infection Data: Models, Inference and Model Choice

Theo Kypraios, University of Nottingham.

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Real time modelling of swine influenza in the UK.

Georgios Ketsetzis, Health Protection Agency.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Respondent-Driven Sampling of Hidden Populations

Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Households and farms - clump models in epidemiology.

Thomas House, University of Warwick.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

A Bayesian synthesis of evidence for estimating HIV prevalence and incidence

Anne Presanis, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.

Meeting Room 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Impact of Transmission in Dose-Response Experiments

Andrew Conlan.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Comparative inference in epidemic models without likelihoods

Dr. TJ McKinley (CIDC, Department of Veterinary Medicine).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Some ideas about deterministic models and heterogeneous populations.

Kieran Sharkey (University of Manchester).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Commuters and the spread of influenza in the UK

Adam Kucharski, University of Warwick.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

A statistical framework for the adaptive management of epidemiological interventions

Dr. Leah R Johnson (University of Cambridge).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Risk factors for persistence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds.

Kat Karolemeas.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Evolutionary ecology of microbial virulence: cooperation, defection and infection.

Dr Sam Brown, University of Oxford, Dept of Zoology.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Modeling zoonotic emergence: Nipah virus, epidemic enhancement, and general trends

** Note this is a lunch time seminar **

Dr Juliet Pulliam, Fogarty International Center, NIH Bethesda (USA).

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Worms and Bugs

GIS, Cartograms and Cellular Automata Modelling of Animal Disease

Colin Birch, Veterinary Laboratories Agency.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Homologous recombination is very rare or absent in human influenza virus.

Maciej Boni, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam.

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Influenza's one-way ticket: the global migration of seasonal A(H3N2) viruses

Dr Colin Russell (Zoology).

Meeting room 12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:20-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling bluetongue virus transmission between farms

Camille Szmaragd, Institute for Animal Health.

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 15:50-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Rapid loss of immunity is necessary to explain historical cholera epidemics

Ed Ionides, University of Michigan.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:20-17:30

Worms and Bugs

How to control pest insects such as mosquitoes by releasing lots more of them!

Nina Alphey, Department of Zoology, Oxford.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:20-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Sun, sand and STDs: TB transmission in meerkats of the Kalahari

Julian Drewe (Zoology).

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:20-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Constructing the effect of mooted intervention strategies on historic epidemics

Alex Cook (Plant Sciences).

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 15:20-16:30

Worms and Bugs

Molecular approaches to understanding California sea lion disease patterns

Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse (Institute of Zoology).

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:20-17:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulence

Christophe Fraser, Imperial College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:30-15:30

Worms and Bugs

Spider dispersal OR Bacterial ageing (tbc)

Leah Johnson (Statslab).

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Competitor or parasite: choose your best enemy

Olivier Restif (CIDC, Vet School).

Meeting room 4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Recent experiences with the equine influenza epidemic in Australia

Dr James Watson, Australian Animal Health Laboratory.

Meeting room 5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiology

Vanessa Didelez, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:30-15:30