SBIDER Seminars
Our seminars are held on Mondays 2-3pm, on Main Campus MS.05 (Zeeman Building).
A sandwich lunch is provided beforehand 1.15-2pm in MSB 5th floor Kitchen
All welcome!
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 Borlaise (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) |
PREVIOUS SEMINARS
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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