SBIDER Seminars
Our seminars are held on Mondays 2-3pm, in OC0.01.
A sandwich lunch is provided beforehand 1.15-2pm in MSB kitchen on floor 5.
All welcome!
Current organiser: Lukas Eigentler (Lukas.Eigentler@warwick.ac.uk)
Academic year 2024/25. Term 1
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| 7 October | Francesca Scarabel | University of Leeds |
Numerical methods for structured population models in ecology and epidemiology |
| 14 October | Emma Davis | University of Warwick | Applications of branching processes to disease emergence and elimination |
| 21 October | Denis Patterson | University of Durham | Spatial models of forest-savanna bistability |
| 28 October | Anne Skeldon | University of Surrey | Mathematical modelling of the sleep-wake cycle: light, clocks and digital-twins |
| 4 November | Xander O'Neill | Heriot-Watt University |
Pathogen persistence in wildlife populations |
| 11 November | Laura Wadkin | Newcastle University | Modelling the spread of tree diseases and invasive pests through UK treescapes |
| 18 November | Weini Huang | Queen Mary University of London | Mathematical models of extra-chromosomal DNA and their applications in cancer |
| 25 November | Caroline Trotter |
University of Cambridge
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Defeating Meningitis by 2030: how can modelling help? |
| 2 December | Nardus Mollentze | University of Glasgow | TBC |
Academic year 2024/25. Term 2 is being organised: provisional list.
Contact Lukas Eigentler (Lukas.Eigentler@warwick.ac.uk) if you have a suggestion.
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PREVIOUS SEMINARS
Term 3 Seminars (Apr-June 2024)
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| 22nd April | Peter Neal | University of Nottingham |
Statistical inference for emerging diseases inspired by Covid-19 |
| 29th April | Sam Sutherland | University of Warwick | Measuring elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: A comparison of deceptively different metrics |
| 6th May | BANK HOLIDAY | ||
| 13th May | Renata Retkute | University of Cambridge | Modelling for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 20th May | Philip Pearce | UCL | Pattern formation and phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter |
| 27th May | BANK HOLIDAY | ||
| 3rd June | Michael Plank | University of Canterbury | Mathematical modelling to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response. Abstract |
| 10th June | Bharath Ananthasubramaniam |
HU Berlin |
Are time series fundamental to the study of rhythms? |
| 17th June | Simon Spencer | University of Warwick | Estimating incidence of co-infection from emergency department serosurvey data |
| 24th June (Room MS.05) |
Xiaoyue Xi | MRC Biostatistics Unit (Cambridge) | Detecting and leveraging node-level information in network inference |
Term 2 (Spring) Seminars (Jan-March 2024)
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| 15th January 2024 | Mark Lynch (Physics, Warwick), Simon Schnyder (Tokyo). | Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. | From preferences to endogenous behaviour in disease & vice-versa |
| 22nd January | Helen Byrne | Mathematics Institute, Oxford. | Applications of Topological Data Analysis in Biology. Abstract. |
| 29th January | Karen Page | Department of Mathematics, UCL, London | Positional information theory. Abstract. |
| 5th February | Paolo Ribeca | UK Health Security Agency | On embeddings, distances, phylogenies, and All That. Abstract |
| 12th February | Guillaume Charras | London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London |
Control of morphogenesis by the actin cortex in single cells and multicellular aggregates. Abstract. |
| 19th February | Lukas Eigentler | SBIDER (recently arrived) | Modelling dryland vegetation patterns |
| 26th February | Meaghan Kall | UK Health Security Agency | Spreading information rather than infections: using social media for public engagement during a pandemic. Abstract. |
| 4th March | Nir Gov |
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
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Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity. Abstract. |
| 11th March | No seminar |
Term 1 Seminars 2023/24
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| 9th October 2023 | No seminar | ||
| 16th October | Get together Lunch -SBIDER kitchen | ||
| 23rd October | Igor Nesteruk | Visiting Warwick/SBIDER from Institute of Hydromechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
Inverse problems of COVID-19 pandemic dynamic and endemic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection |
| 30th October | Emily Nixon | Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool. | Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases within a One Health framework. Abstract. |
| 6th November | Annabelle Ballesta | Curie Institute, Paris | Quantitative Systems Pharmacology to Personalize Temozolomide-based Drug Combinations against Brain Tumors. Abstract. |
| 13th November | Chris Overton |
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool |
Time Delays in Infectious Disease Data: Theory and Practice. Abstract. |
| 20th Nov | Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford. |
Identifying cell-to-cell variability using mathematical and statistical modelling. Abstract. |
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| 27th November |
NO SEMINAR |
NOTE: Guillaume Charras postponed until next term. |
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| 4th December | NO SEMINAR | NOTE Meaghan Kall is postponed until next term. |
Term 3 Seminars 2023
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| 24th April | Felicia Magpantay Location: MS.01 |
Queen's University Canada | Challenges in modeling the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases |
| 1st May | BANK HOLIDAY | ||
| 8th May | BANK HOLIDAY | ||
| 15th May | Xavier Didelot Location: MS.05 |
Warwick University | Distinguishing imported cases from locally acquired cases within a geographically limited genomic sample of an infectious disease. |
| 22nd May | Isaac Stopard Location: MS.05 |
Imperial College London | TBA. Likely epidemiological modelling, possibly on malaria. |
| 29th May | BANK HOLIDAY | ||
| 5th June | Hugh Robinson Location: MS.05 |
Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge | Calcium signalling and excitability in invasive cancer cells |
| 12th June | David Rand Location: MS.05 |
University of Warwick |
TimeTeller: a tool to analyse from data the circadian clock as a multigene dynamical system. |
| 19th June | Anna Borlase (Big data Institute, Oxford) Location: MS.05 |
University of Oxford | TBA: Likely modelling/analysis of schistosome infections |
| 26th June | Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology) Location: MS.05 |
University of Oxford. | The ligand discriminatory power of the T cell receptor (and other quantitative immunology tales) |
Term 2 Seminars 2023
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23rd January PS1.28 |
Adam N. Sanborn/ Nick Chater |
Department of Psychology (Waarwick)/WBS | Bayesian brains without probabilities. Abstract. |
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30th January OC0.05 |
Bruno Martins | Warwick School of Life Sciences |
Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria. Abstract |
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6th February OC1.02 |
Mafalda Viana | School of Biodiversity, University of Glasgow. | Vampire bats and mosquitoes: combining surveillance and genomics to dissect the impacts of disease control in the field |
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13th February OC1.02 |
Trevor Graham | Institute of cancer Research | Measuring cancer evolutionary dynamics using maths and genomics. Abstract. |
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20th February OC1.02 |
Randolf Altmeyer | Faculty of Mathematics, Cambridge. | Modelling and Statistical inference with Stochastic partial differential equations. Abstract. |
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27th February OC1.02 |
Sorry no seminar. | Hugh Robinson will hopefully present next term. | |
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6th March OC1.02 |
Theodore Kypraios | School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham. |
Bayesian nonparametric inference for stochastic infectious disease models. Abstract |
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13th March OC1.02 |
Sorry no seminar. | Anna Borlaise (Big data Institute, Oxford) will speak next term on 19th June. |
Term 1 Seminars 2022/2023
| 26th October | Anna Seale | Warwick Medical School | Group A Strep in early life |
| 10th October | Timothy Saunders | Warwick Medical School | Defining boundaries during development |
| 17th October | David Helekal | SBIDER | |
| 24th October | Kris Parag | Imperial College | Quantifying how noise in epidemic data limits estimates of disease spread |
| 31st October | Susana Gomes | Warwick Maths & MathSys | Parameter estimation for macroscopic pedestrian dynamics models using individual trajectories |
| 7th November | Joe Hilton | SBIDER | CANCELLED |
| 14th November | Stephen Parnell | Warwick Life Sciences | Detection and control of invasive plant diseases; an epidemiological modelling approach. |
| 21st November | Michelle Kendall | SBIDER | Epidemiological impacts of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales |
| 28th November | Melissa Iacovidou | SBIDER | Mathematical models of malaria: the importance of biological realism and the effects of insecticide resistance |
| 5th December | Marya Bazzi | Warwick Maths & MathSys | Mesoscale structure in temporal networks |
PRE-COVID SEMINARS
| 7th Oct | No Monday seminar this week, but a special Wednesday seminar from Professor Peter Thompson (University of Pretoria), on Solving the mysteries of Rift Valley fever in southern Africa. 3pm, Wednesday 9th October, in the one off location of MS0.4 | ||
| 14th Oct | |||
| 21st Oct | Dr Madhusudhan Venkadesan | Yale University | Form and function of feet and fins. Abstract |
| 28th Oct | Prof Graham Medley | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Visceral Leishmanias on the Indian Subcontinent: predictions, targets and dynamics. Abstract |
| Dr Raluca Eftimie | University of Dundee | REARRANGED FOR 12th FEB 2020 | |
| 11th Nov | Dr Ben Ashby | University of Bath |
Finding your niche: how competition drives patterns of diversity. Abstract |
| 18th Nov | Dr Aaron Lim | University of Bristol |
Towards hepatitis C virus elimination in high-burden resource-limited settings: Focus on Pakistan. Abstract |
| 25th Nov | No seminar due to strike action | ||
| 2nd Dec | No seminar due to strike action | ||
Term 3 Seminars 2018/19
| 29th April | Dr Mario Recker | University of Exeter |
Knowledge gaps and model challenges related to dengue and other arboviral diseases. Abstract |
| 6th May | bank holiday | ||
| 13th May | Dr Marco Polin | University of Warwick |
Dial-a-Plume: Localised Photo-Bio-Convection on Demand. Abstract |
| 20th May | Prof Xavier Didelot | University of Warwick (SBIDER) |
An analytical journey from pathogen genetics to epidemiology. Abstract |
| 27th May | bank holiday | ||
| 3rd June | Dr Rebecca Mancy | University of Glasgow |
Emergent clustering of species traits as a driver of biodiversity. Abstract |
| 10th June | |||
| 17th June | Dr Lilith Whittles | Imperial College London |
Statistical epidemiology of gonorrhoea: modelling the fitness cost and benefit of antibiotic resistance and potential impact of vaccination. Abstract |
AD HOC SEMINAR
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12th April (NOTE FRIDAY) |
Prof Mick Roberts | Massey University |
Mathematical eco-epidemiology and the dilution effect. Abstract |
Term 2 Seminars 2018/19
| 21st January | Dr Sara Jabbari | University of Birmingham |
Novel strategies to tackle bacterial infections: targeting adhesion and persistence. Abstract |
| 28th January | Prof Mark Leake | University of York | Illuminating the black box of DNA-Protein Interactions. Abstract |
| 4th February | Dr Jonathan Harrison | University of Warwick (SBIDER) | Testing models of mRNA localization reveals robustness regulated by reducing transport between cells. Abstract |
| 11th February | Prof Rowland Kao | University of Edinburgh | Combining genomics and epidemiology to analyse bi-directional transmission of Myocbacterium bovis for cattle and badgers in Great Britain. Abstract |
| 18th February | Dr Heather Harrington | University of Oxford |
Comparing models and biological data using computational algebra and topology. Abstract |
| 25th February | Dr Tim Rogers | University of Bath | Strength in numbers: how demographic noise can reverse the direction of selection. Abstract |
| 4th March | Dr Ben Swallow | University of Warwick (SBIDER) | Efficient Bayesian parameter inference for high-dimensional stochastic biological systems using the phase-corrected linear noise approximation. Abstract |
| 11th March | Dr Darius Koester | University of Warwick | Tracking single myosin II filament dynamics during acto-myosin network remodeling to understand the role of mechanical feedback in the process of pattern formation. Abstract |
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