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It's been a very long process, but work by Robin Thompson (now Oxford), Will Hart (also now Oxford), Alex Kaye, Matt Keeling and collaborators at Fort Collins and UKHSA has finally been published in PNAS: Climate variability amplifies the need for vector-borne disease outbreak preparedness.

We explain that while the average trend of increasing temperatures is going to expand the range of many vector-borne diseases - it is also very important to consider the variability around this trend. Unusually hot summers may lead to vector-borne disease outbreaks in the UK well before predictions based on the average.

Our two new members of staff Albane Théry and Isty Rysava are arriving soon.
Albane works on hydrodynamics problems that arise in soft active matter and biological physics, with particular interest in self-organization and complex environments - for example the swimming motion of bacteria. She did her undergraduate in Paris, her Phd in Cambridge and has just completed a personal fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
Isty is a quantitative ecologist with interest in the evolutionary, environmental, and social determinants driving disease dynamics, focused on applications in health policy, health inequalities and justice. She did her MSc in Glasgow, her PhD in Warwick (with Mike), and has since spent time at CDC (Atlanta) and Oxford (working with Robin Thompson).
We are all looking forward to welcoming them to SBIDER.

Ivy Kombe, an Wellcome Trust fellow, arrives in Warwick next week (early August). Ivy will be joining us for around two years. Her fellowship is focused on the vacccine pipeline from trials to deployment. Ivy is also linked to the ViGOR project and will help to strengthen links between Warwick and KEMRI (Kenya). Ivy will be based in Room 5.25 - please pop in and introduce yourself.