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Four things to report this week:

1) There was a brilliant meeting at the Royal Society on Monday in which Sam Moore, Sam Brand and Ed Hill all gave talks (you can see these at https://youtu.be/3yMU-e38MGo) while Louise Dyson gave a plenary public lectutre (available at https://youtu.be/5IRDhGC2VGQ and well worth a watch if you want to know what the epidemiologists have been doing for the past 2 years).

2) Results from the Complete Unversity Guide were out this week. Maths and Stats are up 3 places to 3rd; Computer Science is up 4 places to 4th, and Life Sciences is up 17 places to 15th.

3) There is an opportunity to join the Royal Society Young Academy for those with 3-12 year experience in the field: see ukyoungacademy.org for further details.

4) Two further papers out this week:

Harrison, JU; Sen, O; McAinsh, AD; Burroughs, NJ (2022) Kinetochore tracking in 3D from lattice light-sheet imaging data with KiT. BIOINFORMATICS 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac330

Fairbanks, EL; Baylis, M; Daly, JM; Tildesley, MJ (2022) Inference for a spatio-temporal model with partial spatial data: African horse sickness virus in Morocco. Epidemics 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100566

News from SBIDER this week:

1) I'm pleased to anounce that Glen Guyver-Fletcher passed his PhD this week: "Investigating the efficacy of vaccine strategies in Turkey using a mathematical epidemiological model"

2) Erin Gorsich has a new PDRA starting later this month. Diana will be working on modelling diseases in desert bighorn sheep.

3) Louise Dyson, Sam Brand, Sam Moore, Laura Guzmán Rincón and Ed Hill will all be talking at the Lessons Learned from Modelling COVID meeting at the Royal Society, with Louise speaking at the evening's panel discussion.

4) More papers out this week:

I'm trying for a regular update of things going on in SBIDER. Three main things to report this week:

1) Congratulations to Sam Moore, who has been awarded this year's Faculty Postdoctoral Prize in Mathematics, for his contribution to the paper:
Moore, S., Hill, E.M., Tildesley, M., Dyson, L., Keeling, M.J. (2021) "Vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study Link opens in a new window" Lancet Infectious Diseases. 21(6): 793-802. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00143-2Link opens in a new window

2) Ed Hill and Laura Guzman-Rincon have started a series of podcasts - please contact either of them if you would like to talk about your latest research.

3) Two new papers out this week:
Keeling & Moore (2022) An assessment of the vaccination of school-aged children in England against SARS-CoV-2. BMC Medicine.
Ledda, Cummins, ... Didelot (2022) Hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales associated with a bla( OXA-48) plasmid carried mostly by Escherichia coli ST399. Microbial Genomics.