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March 2012: Publication in Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, "Exploring short term responses to changes in the control strategy for Chlamydia trachomatis", co-authored by James Clarke and Jane White.

March 2012: Publication in Ecology, "Why are metapopulations so rare?" , co-authored by Frank Hilker

February 9 - 10, 2012: DSABNS (Dynamical systems applied to biology and natural sicence) workshop, Lisbon. Ben Adams giving plenary talk.  

February 2012: CoSysDyn meeting at University of Warwick. Jane White giving a talk.

February 2012: Jane White giving a research seminar at Heriot-Watt University.

January 2012: Publication in Ecology Letters, "Directional biases and resource-dependence in dispersal generate spatial patterning in a consumer–producer model", co-authored by Frank Hilker. 

December 2011: Publication in Journal of Theoretical Biology, "Rabbits protecting birds: Hypopredation and limitations of hyperpredation", authored by Andrew Bate and Frank Hilker.

November 9-11, 2011: NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Free-roaming Cats and Rabies. Frank Hilker participating.

November 5 -10, 2011: BIOMAT meeting, Santiago de Chile. Nick Britton giving course of tutorial lectures and keynote talk.

November, 2011: Nick Britton giving a seminar at the University of Leeds.

October, 2011: Augustino Isdory (University of Dar es Salamm) visiting the CMB under the Mentoring African Research in Mathematics programme.

October 1, 2011: Mark Greco joins the CMB as a PDRA on our Insect Pollinator Initiative grant, working with Ed Feil, Nick Priest, Nick Britton, and collaborators from outside Bath.

October 1, 2011: Hannah Woodall joins the CMB as a PhD student. She will be working with Ben Adams on epidemiological models for vector-borne diseases.

September 19-21, 2011: MATE meeting, Colchester: talks by Andrew Bate and Frank Hilker

August, 2011: Paper on Target-oriented chaos control accepted in Phys Lett A, by former MMath students Justine Dattani and Jack Blake, and Frank Hilker

July 3-8, 2011: Workshop on Emerging Challenges at the Interface of Mathematics, Environmental Science and Spatial Ecology (Banff International Research Station, Canada). Frank Hilker participating.

June 28 - July 2, 2011, ECMTB/SMB Conference, Krakow: talks by Ben Adams, Andrew Bate, Nick Britton, James Clarke, Ellie Harrison. 

April - October 2011: Visit (incoming)- Gilberto Corso will visit the CMB and the Dept of Maths for six months from April 2011.  Gilberto is in the Dept of Biophysics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.  His expertise is in dynamical systems, networks, and percolation theory, and his current research is in applications to biology, and in particular to theoretical ecology. Gilberto will be visiting Bath with his wife Juliana and his two children, Alice (5) and Tomas (2).

April 2011: Publication - Sieber and Hilker: The hydra effect in predator-prey models. Journal of Mathematical Biology

April 2011: Visit and seminar (outgoing) - Frank Hilker visiting Field Station Fabrikschleichach and giving a seminar at the Biozentrum of the University of Wuerzburg (Germany)

18 - 28 March 2011: Visit (outgoing) - Ben Adams visiting the department of mathematics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as part of the Mentoring African Research in Mathematics programme and giving a short course in epidemiolgical modelling.
21 - 25 February 2011: Workshop visit (outgoing) - Frank Hilker will participate in and give a talk at the Workshop on "Ecology and Control of Invasive Species, Including Insects", to be held at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

11 February 2011: Seminar (local) - Nick Priest (Bath) Infection and ageing.

January 2011: Publication - Adams and Mchardy: The impact of seasonal and year-round transmission regimes on the evolution of influenza A virus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

January 2011: Publication - Omori and Adams: Disrupting seasonality to control disease outbreaks: the case of koi herpes virus. Joural of Theoretical Biology.

December 2010: Publication - Sieber & Hilker: Prey, predators, parasites: intraguild predation or simpler community modules in disguise? Journal of Animal Ecology

13 December 2011: Visit and Seminar (outgoing) -Ben Adams visiting the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperical College, London.

3 December 2010: Visit and seminar (incoming) - Konstantin Blyuss (Sussex) An epidemic model with temporary immunity

18 - 19 November 2010: Visit and seminar (incoming) - Jason Matthiopoulos ( St Andrews) W ildlife population cycles.

7 - 13 November 2010: Workshop visit (outgoing). Jane White visiting NIMBioS in Knoxville Tennessee for an investigative workshop on modelling wildlife diseases and zoonoses (session chair) and a couple of days collaboration with Suzanne Lenhart.

5 November 2010: Visit and seminar (incoming) - Sebastian Funk (Institute of Zoolog). Modelling the dynamics of infectious diseases and human behaviour.

2 November 2010: Visit and seminar (outgoing) - Frank Hilker visiting the University of Dundee, Division of Mathematics

22 October 2010: Seminar (local) -Alison Nightingale (Bath) Pharmacoepidemiology and the general practice research database

6 - 7 October 2010: Visit and seminar (incoming) - Bob Planque (Amsterdam) Maintenance of bird song dialects.

4 October 2010: PhDs started - Andrew Bate (eco-epidemiology), James Clarke (epidemic control), Finn McQuaid (foodweb dynamics).

1 October 2010: Visit and seminar (incoming) - Christopher Kribs Zaleta (University of Texas) Treatment of Hepatitis C for Hemolytic Anemia Management.

4-10 September 2010: Visitor - Michael Sieber (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)

1 September 2010: PhD completed - Becky Hayward successfully defended her thesis.

September 2010: Publication - Brown and White: The HPV vaccination strategy: could male vaccination have a significant impact? Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine.

1 - 3 September 2010: Meeting - Models in Population Dynamics in Ecology, University of Leicester. Including a plenary from Nick Britton, talks from Ben Adams, Frank Hilker and Justine Dattani.

26 - 29 July 2010: Meeting - Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) Annual Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nick Britton attending as a member of the SMB Board of Directors and giving a talk.

19 July 2010: Visitor - Suzanne O'Regan (University College Cork, Ireland)

28 June - 2 July 2010: Visit and short course - Nick Britton visiting UNESP (Sao Paulo State University), Brazil, and giving a short course on Complex Networks in Ecology and Epidemiology

28 June - 1 July 2010: Meeting - Statworks - Statistical modelling and inference for networks, University of Bristol. Including a talk from Dick James.

24 June 2010: Meeting - Mathematics, Compuation and Biology, University of West of England. Including talks from Ben Adams and Frank Hilker.

8 June 2010: Grant - Ed Feil, Nick Priest and Nick Britton, with colleagues from the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and the Universities of Warwick and Newcastle, have won a grant to study European Foul Brood in honey-bees. The grant was awarded under the Insect Pollinators Initiative run by the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Partnership, which involves UK research councils, government departments and charities.  Funding will include a post-doctoral researcher at Bath for two years from October 2011

1 -5 June 2010: Meeting - Compuational and Mathematical Population Dynamics 3, Bordeaux. Including talks from Ben Adams and Frank Hilker.

7 May 2010: PhD completed - Farida Chamchod successfully defended her thesis.

18 May 2010: CMB seminar, Bath- Sam Brown (Zoology, Oxford), Evolution of co-operation.

5 April 2010: PhD completed - Vicki Brown successfully defended her thesis

March, 2010: Publication - Adams, B. and Boots, M. (2010) How important is vertical transmission for the persistence of dengue? Insights from a mathematical model. Epidemics.

February, 2010: Publication - Hartfield, M., White, K.A.J., Kurtenbach, K. (2010) The role of deer in facilitating the spatial spread of the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi. Theoretical Ecology.

October 1, 2009: PhD started - Eleanor Harrison, working on Leishmaniasis epidemiology with Ben Adams