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Publications
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Themes
- Evolution and virulence, including co-evolution with hosts and other organisms
- Heterogeneities: how disease dynamics are affected by variation (e.g. in geographical space, between individual hosts)
- Immunodynamics: interactions between pathogens and the immune system
- Interactions between parasites: how these affect dynamics and evolution of disease agents and hosts
- Phylodynamics: how pathogen genetic variation is modulated by host immunity, transmission constraints, epidemic dynamics and other variables to determine pathogen phylogenies — at scales from within-host to metapopulation
Our main research themes are highly interrelated. They integrate a wide range of scientific disciplines — from immunology, virology, bioinformatics, genomics and evolutionary biology, to epidemiology, disease ecology and architecture. They also span the whole range of biological complexity — from genes and proteins to populations and pandemics.
Applications
The research questions we investigate are not only of fundamental biological importance. Much of our research also has implications for planning interventions in the control of established and emerging diseases in human, livestock and wildlife populations.