Projects

Some Current and Recently Completed PhD Projects

• Modelling healthcare provision for an infectious disease using optimal control. Supervisor: Jane White.
• Epidemiology and evolution of vector-borne diseases. Supervisor: Ben Adams.
• Dengue epidemiology in structured populations. Supervisor: Ben Adams.
• Managing epidemics after natural disasters. Supervisor: Ben Adams.
  
• Cross-immunity in multi-strain infectious diseases. Supervisor: Nick Britton.
• Social groupings and disease dynamics in animal populations: a theoretical study. Supervisor: Jane White.
• Modelling the spread of disease on networks. Supervisor: Jane White.
• Modelling aphid populations that are resistant to a fungal pathogen. Supervisor: Jane White.
• Gypsy moth modelling with an application of optimal control theory. Supervisor: Jane White.
• Mathematical models for the coexistence of sexual and asexual conspecifics. Supervisor: Mike Mogie.
• The importance of pollen and local spatial structure in the evolution of reproduction in flowering plants. Supervisor: Mike Mogie.
• Genotype independent aspects of seed ecology in Taraxacum. Supervisor: Mike Mogie.
  
  

Recent MSc Projects

• Modelling the effect of hypoxia on the evolution of cancer cells. Supervisors: Jane White (Maths), M Hejmadi (Biology and Biochemistry).
  
• Epidemic models for macroparasitic neglected tropical diseaes. Supervisor: Ben Adams (Maths)
  
• Mathematical models for diabetes mellitus. Supervisors: Hartmut Schwetlick (Maths), Laurence Hurst (Biology and Biochemistry)
  
• A mixture of defectors and co-operators can enable maximal group benefti. Supervisors: Hartmut Schwetlick (Maths), Laurence Hurst (Biology and Biochemistry)
  
• Insect fungus harvesting. Supervisors: Jane White (Maths), JM Bullock, Steven White (CEH, Wallingford).
  
• An investigation into the effects of infected prey consumption. Supervisor: Frank Hilker (Maths).
  
• Modelling the spread of Bovine TB in Britain. Supervisors: Jane White (Maths), Ed Feil (Biology and Biochemistry).
  
• Modelling the control of Chlamydia using screening and contact tracing. Supervisor: Jane White (Maths).
  
• An investigation into the possible limitations of hyperpredation. Supervisor: Frank Hilker (Maths).
• Sample size re-estimation in clinical trials. Supervisor: Chris Jennison (Maths).

• Modelling interspecific kleptoparasitism. Superivsor: Nick Britton (Maths).
  
• The mainenance of biodiversity in a bacterial community. Supervisors: Nick Britton (Maths), Mike Mogie (Biology and Biochemistry).
  
• Time-dependent contact networks: famine relief in ant colonies. Supervisor: Dick James (Physics).
  
• Investigating the complement system evasive strategies of S. Aureus. Supervisors: Harmut Schwetlick (Maths), Jean van den Elsen (Biology and Biochemistry).
  
• Exploring the importance of modularity in maintaining cultural boundaries. Supervisor: Joanna Bryson (Computer Science)
• The role of age dependent travel patterns in dengue epidemiology. Supervisor: Ben Adams (Maths).
  
• Evolution of avian influenza. Supervisor: Ben Adams (Maths).
• Cellular signalling networks. Supervisor: Geoff Holman (Biology and Biochemistry), Frank Hilker (Maths)
  
• MLST data prediction from and eBURST perspective. Supervisors: Ed Feil (Biology and Biochemistry), Tony Robinson (Maths).
  
• Comparing parsimony, likelihood and Baysian inference in statistical phylogenetic analysis. Supervisors: Matt Wills (Biology and Biochemistry), Merrilee Hurn (Maths).
• Exploring the impact of ion competition on drug monitoring using reverse iontophoresis. Supervisors: Begona Delgado-Charro (Pharmacy), Jane White (Maths).
• Modelling infection and co-infection dynamics of bee pathogens. Supervisors: Ed Feil (Biology and Biochemistry), Nick Britton (Maths).
  
• Cellular automaton modelling of cancer tumour growth. Supervisors: Momna Hejmadi (Biology and Biochemistry), Hartmut Schwetlick (Maths).
  
• Mediation of interspecific competiton: the effect of host preening on the coexistence of avian parasites. Supervisor: Ben Adams (Maths).
• Exploring the dilution effect for Lyme disease during deer invasion into a region. Supervisors: Jane White (Maths), Klaus Kurtenback (Biology and Biochemistry). 
• Pseudogene evolution in bacterial populations. Supervisors: Ivana Gudelj (Maths), Alex Jeffries (Biology and Biochemistry).
• Self-organisation in collective animal behaviour. Supervisor: Dick James (Physics).
  
• The effect of drug reservoirs in the Stratum Corneum on drug monitoring using reverse iontophoresis. Supervisors: Begona Delgado-Charro (Pharmacy), Jane White (Maths).
  
• Simulation of neural crest pigment cell migration patterns. Supervisors: Robert Kelsh (Biology and Biochemistry), Hartmut Schwetlick (Maths).
  
• The Baldwin effect - evolution of conformity in Capuchin monkeys. Supervisor: Joanna Bryson (Computer Science).
• Modelling tumour induced angiogenesis. Supervisors: Momna Hejmadi (Biology and Biochemistry), Hartmut Schwetlick (Maths(.