We are pleased to announce that Christopher Davis, a former member of HAT MEPP and a current member of SBIDER, was awarded a Thesis Prize by the Faculty of Mathematics in July. His PhD, supervised by both Kat Rock and Matt Keeling, focused on developing a stochastic mathematical model for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) infection dynamics at the village level. Well done Chris!

For anyone requiring support with biomedical data analysis, the Bioinformatics Research Technology Platform is now offering help and advice. Their team of analysts has experience across many different platforms and can provide assistance with all things bioinformatics from grant writing to programming, analysis pipelines to data storage, making figures to High Performance Computing.

For more information, see their website (https://warwick.ac.uk/bioinformatics/), or meet them in person at one of the regular ‘clinic’ sessions, where they are available every Tuesday morning in the GH café and at other locations (see the website for other dates and locations). There is no need to make an appointment to meet them at these sessions, just drop by for some on-the-spot training or advice.

I am very pleased to let all know that Ed Hill has been chosen as one of the winners from Mathematics of the 2020 Faculty Post-Doctoral Research Prize for his paper “Seasonal influenza: Modelling approaches to capture immunity propagation".