Three things of note this week:

1) The epidemiologists went to Cambridge this week, for (yet another) Royal Society / Issac Newton meeting - joining Matt, Ed, Louise and Laura were Julia Brettschnieder from Stats and Anna Seale for WMS.

2) Planning is underway for the CDT to replace MathSys. The idea is to build around challenges for the next 100 years, with a focus on the implications of climate change, cleaner energy, health aging, preparing for pandemics, sustainable agriculture etc etc. If you have any ideas or which to be more involved please talk to Mike, Matt or Louise.

3) Three papers out this week:

Saez, M., Briscoe, J. and Rand, DA. (2022) Dynamical landscapes of cell fate decisions. Interface Focus. 10.1098/rsfs.2022.0002

Wang, L;,Didelot, X; Bi, YH ; Gao, GF (2022) SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility compared between variants of concern and vaccination status. BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS. 23 10.1093/bib/bbab594

Kretzschmar, ME et al (2022) Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics. Epidemics. 38 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100546

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: