Research

Congratulations to Cimo Chen, was awarded her PhD (in absentia) this month.  Cimo has received a two-year fellowship award from US National Institute of Health for post-doctoral research at NIH.

Brett Lidbury is currently visiting Radboud University in the Netherlands to collaborate on the emerging area of “synthesis of evidence” which encompasses systematic reviews. These methods can be broadened to many areas of interest within biomedical/medical research, including the identification of disease/toxicity mechanisms and pathways, which can therefore also assist with animal replacement and reduction strategies for experimentalists.  The team has been successful in attracting funding via the Erasmus Scheme in the Netherlands to support future staff and student exchange on the topic of systematic reviews, and related research methods.

Katie Glass has two undergraduate student projects this semester that have just started.   Angus Forth will be working on modelling movement of people between American Samoa and Western Samoa, and the consequences for risk of Lymphatic Filariasis.   Alice Patterson will be developing models of respiratory infections and exploring disease interference patterns.

Conferences

Angus McLure attended the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Utah, and gave a talk on “Guidelines overestimate within-hospital transmission of Clostridium difficile”.

Papers

• McLure A, Clements ACA, Kirk M, Glass K. (2017) Healthcare associated Clostridium difficile infections are sustained by disease from the community. Bull. Math. Biol. (in press)