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About Us

The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER) specialises in bringing sophisticated mathematics to challenges in biological sciences. Our research spans from the theoretical to practical policy advice, and from the genome to the population. We are a team of around 20 staff from across campus with individuals based in Maths, Stats, Computer Science, Life Sciences and Medicine.

At the core of our research is a desire to better understand and predict the biological world, often with the ultimate goal of controlling disease.

News

Fri 10 Aug '18

Erin Gorsich has arrived.

Fri 06 Jul '18

James & Matt win £2M funding to support East African research.

Thu 03 May '18

Kat appointed to Assistant Professor

Tue 27 Mar '18

New appointments to SBIDER

Congratulations to Magnus

Thu 31 Aug '17

The Hornets are coming.... maybe

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Recent Publications.

Probert; Jewell; Werkman; Fonnesbeck; Goto; Runge; Sekiguchi; Shea; Keeling; Ferrari; Tildesley, MJ (2018) Real-time decision-making during emergency disease outbreaks. PLoS Comp Bio. 14 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006202

Morpeth; Munywoki; Hammitt; Bett; Bottomley; Onyango; Murdoch; Nokes; Scott (2018) Impact of viral upper respiratory tract infection on the concentration of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage among Kenyan children. Sci Reports 8

Penman, BS; Gupta, S (2018) Detecting signatures of past pathogen selection on human HLA loci: are there needles in the haystack? Parasitology 145 731-739

Bird, AD; Richardson, MJE (2018) Transmission of temporally correlated spike trains through synapses with short-term depression. PLoS Comp Biol. 14 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006232

Kiyuka; Agoti; Munywoki; Njeru; Bett; Otieno; Otieno; Kamau; Clark; van der Hoek; Kellam; Nokes; Cotten (2018) Human Coronavirus NL63 Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Patterns in Rural Coastal Kenya. J. Inf. Diseases. 217 1728-1739

Rock; Ndeffo-Mbah; Castano; Palmer; Pandey; Atkins; Ndung'u; Hollingsworth; Galvani; Bever; Chitnis; Keeling (2018) Assessing Strategies Against Gambiense Sleeping Sickness Through Mathematical Modeling. Clinical Inf Disease 66 S286-S292

Harper; Woodcock; Lam; Garcia-Albornoz; Adamson; Ashall; Rowe; Downton; Schmidt; West; Spiller; Rand; White (2018) Temperature regulates NF-kappa B dynamics and function through timing of A20 transcription. PNAS 115 E5243-E5249

Sellman, S; Tsao, K; Tildesley, MJ; Brommesson, P; Webb, CT; Wennergren, U; Keeling, MJ; Lindstrom, T (2018) Need for speed: An optimized gridding approach for spatially explicit disease simulations. PLoS Comp. Biol. 14 (4):10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006086

Peet, DR; Burroughs, NJ; Cross, RA (2018) Kinesin expands and stabilizes the GDP-microtubule lattice. Nature Nanotechnology. 13 (5):386-+; 10.1038/s41565-018-0084-4

Inns, T, et al. (2018) Novel application of the matched case-control design to compare food supply chains during an Escherichia coli O157 outbreak, United Kingdom, 2016. EuroSurveillance 23 (18) 20-24