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2008-01-15 14:30: Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiology (Vanessa Didelez, University of Bristol)

2008-01-17 16:30: Recent experiences with the equine influenza epidemic in Australia (Dr James Watson, Australian Animal Health Laboratory)

2008-01-24 16:30: Competitor or parasite: choose your best enemy (Olivier Restif (CIDC, Vet School))

2008-01-31 16:30: Spider dispersal OR Bacterial ageing (tbc) (Leah Johnson (Statslab))

2008-02-12 14:30: The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulence (Christophe Fraser, Imperial College London)

2008-02-14 16:20: Molecular approaches to understanding California sea lion disease patterns (Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse (Institute of Zoology))

2008-02-28 15:20: Constructing the effect of mooted intervention strategies on historic epidemics (Alex Cook (Plant Sciences))

2008-03-13 16:20: Sun, sand and STDs: TB transmission in meerkats of the Kalahari (Julian Drewe (Zoology))

2008-05-01 16:20: How to control pest insects such as mosquitoes by releasing lots more of them! (Nina Alphey, Department of Zoology, Oxford)

2008-05-08 16:20: Rapid loss of immunity is necessary to explain historical cholera epidemics (Ed Ionides, University of Michigan)

2008-05-15 15:50: Modelling bluetongue virus transmission between farms (Camille Szmaragd, Institute for Animal Health)

2008-05-29 16:20: Influenza's one-way ticket: the global migration of seasonal A(H3N2) viruses (Dr Colin Russell (Zoology))

2008-10-10 16:00: Homologous recombination is very rare or absent in human influenza virus. (Maciej Boni, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam)

2008-10-23 16:30: GIS, Cartograms and Cellular Automata Modelling of Animal Disease (Colin Birch, Veterinary Laboratories Agency)

2008-11-06 13:00: Modeling zoonotic emergence: Nipah virus, epidemic enhancement, and general trends (Dr Juliet Pulliam, Fogarty International Center, NIH Bethesda (USA))

2008-11-20 16:30: Evolutionary ecology of microbial virulence: cooperation, defection and infection. (Dr Sam Brown, University of Oxford, Dept of Zoology)

2008-11-27 16:30: Risk factors for persistence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds. (Kat Karolemeas)

2009-01-15 16:30: A statistical framework for the adaptive management of epidemiological interventions (Dr. Leah R Johnson (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-29 16:30: Commuters and the spread of influenza in the UK (Adam Kucharski, University of Warwick)

2009-02-12 16:30: Some ideas about deterministic models and heterogeneous populations. (Kieran Sharkey (University of Manchester))

2009-02-26 16:30: Comparative inference in epidemic models without likelihoods (Dr. TJ McKinley (CIDC, Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2009-03-12 16:30: Impact of Transmission in Dose-Response Experiments (Andrew Conlan)

2009-05-07 16:30: A Bayesian synthesis of evidence for estimating HIV prevalence and incidence (Anne Presanis, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)

2009-05-21 16:30: Households and farms - clump models in epidemiology. (Thomas House, University of Warwick)

2009-05-28 16:30: Respondent-Driven Sampling of Hidden Populations (Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge)

2009-06-11 16:30: Real time modelling of swine influenza in the UK. (Georgios Ketsetzis, Health Protection Agency)

2010-01-21 16:30: Statistical Analysis of Hospital Infection Data: Models, Inference and Model Choice (Theo Kypraios, University of Nottingham)

2010-01-28 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Marc Baguelin, HPA Colindale)

2010-02-04 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge DAMTP))

2010-02-11 16:30: Detecting important mutations and epistatic interactions in H5N1 and H1N1 Influenza viruses using Bayesian Graphical Models. (Sam Lycett (University of Edinburgh))

2010-03-11 16:30: Evolution and emergence of a novel human pathogen (Nim Arinaminpathy (University of Oxford))

2010-05-06 16:30: Modelling the management of HIV testing and counselling in a developing country. (Dr Claver Bhunu, visiting fellow at Clare Hall from the National University of Zimbabwe)

2010-05-20 16:30: Emergence of HIV drug resistance during combinational therapy. (John Kitayimbwa)

2010-06-03 16:30: Worms and Germs - helminths as vectors of pathogens. (Sarah Perkins, University of Cardiff)

2010-06-10 16:30: Timing of emergence and epidemic peak of novel influenza strains (Ryosuke Omori - Kyushu University, Japan)

2010-10-07 16:30: Latency and reinfection in Tuberculosis (Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock)

2011-01-14 16:30: Modelling cell migration and adhesion during development (R.N. Thompson, University of Oxford)

2011-05-31 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Claude Loverdo, UCLA)

2011-09-15 16:00: Interplay of Ecological and Evolutionary Processes in Infectious Disease Dynamics: Antimicrobial Resistance and Immune Escape (Dr Roger Kouyos, Princeton)

2011-09-23 11:30: Economic and epidemic optima for control of immunising infections (Dr Petra Klepac, Princeton)

2011-10-10 12:00: Persistence and the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain (Andrew Conlan (Vet School))

2011-10-24 12:00: Optimal Treatment of an SIS Disease with Two Strains (Selma Telalagic, Faculty of Economics)

2011-11-07 12:00: Exact simulation-based Bayesian inference for epidemic models (TJ McKinley, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2011-11-21 11:30: Models of the antibody response to malaria infection and vaccination in African children (Michael White, Imperial)

2012-01-23 11:30: Collective human behaviour and epidemics: what (else) can we learn from mobile phone data? (Leon Danon, University of Warwick)

2012-02-06 11:30: A new inference approach for respondent driven sampling (Dr Yakir Berchenko, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine)

2012-02-20 11:30: Evolution of plant pathogens in response to host resistance (Dr Giovanni Lo Iacono, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine)

2012-03-05 11:30: Non-diffusive spread of White-nose syndrome caused by spatial heterogeneities and climate (Prof. John Drake, University of Georgia)

2012-04-30 11:30: Explaining the age pattern of immunity to seasonal influenza (Adam Kucharski, DAMTP)

2012-05-21 11:30: The Optimal Control of Infectious Diseases via Prevention and Treatment (Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Economics, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-08 11:30: Spatial dynamics, loss of immunity and the adult carriage of Pertussis (Andrew Conlan (Vet School))

2012-10-22 11:30: Reflections on Random Forests (Richard Dybowski, Dept. Vet. Med.)

2012-11-05 11:30: Self-enforcing agreements in the control of immunizing infectious (Dr Petra Klepac, DAMTP)

2012-11-19 11:30: Cattle mixing patterns impact bovine tuberculosis transmission (Dr Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Dept. Vet. Med.)

2013-02-18 11:30: Selection and clonal interference in a seasonal influenza virus (Chris Illingworth (Sanger))

2013-03-04 11:30: Challenges in using maximum-likelihood inference for multi-dimensional stochastic models: the case of within-host dynamics of Salmonella (Olivier Restif (Dept. Vet. Med.))

2013-04-29 11:30: A novel emulation-based algorithm for likelihood-free model calibration (Helen Johnson, LSHTM)

2013-11-01 15:30: Rubella modeling (Jessica Metcalf)

2013-11-08 15:30: Estimating HLA associated selection in HIV-1: The Great Escape. (Duncan Palmer)

2013-11-29 15:30: Calibration of an individual based HIV computer model using emulation and history matching (Ioannis Andrianakis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2014-06-27 16:00: How to measure social mixing? (Timo Smieszek, Public Health England and Imperial College)

2015-10-15 12:00: Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model (Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-15 12:00: Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model (Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-15 12:00: Pinpointing sources of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States using a gravity model (Stephen Kissler (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-05 12:00: A phylodynamics pipeline for pathogen sequence data (Mukarram Hossain (University of Cambridge Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2015-11-26 12:15: Modelling the Impact of MenAfriVac in the African Meningitis Belt (Andromachi Karachaliou (University of Cambridge Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2016-01-14 12:15: Optimal design of experiments (David Price (Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2016-02-18 11:45: The Management of Population Immunity (Flavio Toxvaerd (Faculty of Economics))

2016-04-14 12:15: Take two moments to gather your wits. Likelihood-free inference for within-host dynamics of bacterial infection (Olivier Restif (Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2016-10-12 16:00: Mathematical modelling of the immune response to influenza (Ada Yan, University of Melbourne)

2016-10-20 16:00: The antigenic evolution of influenza: Drift or Thrift? (Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford)

2016-11-11 16:00: Bayesian reconstruction of a spatially heterogeneous epidemic: Characterising the geographic spread of 2009 A/H1N1pdm infection in England (Paul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2016-11-18 16:00: Modelling fungicide resistance management strategies (James Elderfield, Plant Sciences)

2016-11-25 16:00: Distance metrics in modelling the spatial spread of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the US (Maria Tang & Stephen Kissler, DAMTP)

2017-02-03 16:00: Hunting for viral packaging signals (Dr Julia Gog (DAMTP))

2017-02-17 16:00: Short talks:  Elliott Bussell, Theresa Reiker, Chris Illingworth (Multiple speakers)

2017-03-03 16:00: Short talks: Sophie Ip & Veni Karamitsou (Mulitple speakers)

2017-03-10 16:00: A novel method to quantify the impact of weather on Lyme disease  (Gianni Loiacono (PHE))

2018-07-16 12:00: Modelling avian influenza outbreak risk in the Australian chicken industry (Prof. Katie Glass, Australian National University)

2018-10-12 16:00: Accelerating the control of bovine TB in developing countries (Andrew Conlan (Vet School))

2018-10-19 16:00: BBC Pandemic, Haslemere Edition: Evaluating epidemic dynamics using fine-scale interpersonal distance data from mobile phones (Stephen Kissler (DAMTP))

2018-10-26 16:00: BBC Pandemic, National Edition (Petra Klepac (DAMTP and LSHTM))

2018-11-02 16:00: Modelling social structure and infectious disease: transmission, control and equity (James Munday (LSHTM))

2018-11-09 16:00: Should we expect attack rates for infectious disease to vary across small spatial scales? (David Haw (Imperial))

2019-01-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-02-01 16:00: Mathematical modelling at different stages of an infectious disease outbreak (Robin Thompson, Christ Church, University of Oxford)

2019-02-15 16:00: When does spatial diversification usefully maximise the durability of crop disease resistance? (Benjamin Watkinson-Powell, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-22 16:00: Genomic and epidemiological surveillance of Zika and yellow fever virus: lessons from Brazil (Nuno Faria, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2019-03-01 16:00: Ecology and emergence of bat-borne viruses (Emma Glennon, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-08 16:00: TALK POSTPONED (Nik Cunniffe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-05-10 16:00: Co-infections by non-interacting pathogens are not independent: deriving new tests of interaction (Nik Cunnifee, Department of Plant Sciences)

2019-11-01 16:00:  Modelling Ebola vaccination (Roz Eggo, LSHTM)

2019-11-15 16:00: Modelling Large Scale Epidemiological Modelling of Infectious Tree Disease (John Holden, Leeds)

2020-02-28 16:00:  Multi-Scale Superinfection Models in Evolutionary Epidemiology (Helena Stage, Manchester)

2020-03-06 16:00: TALK POSTPONED (Conni Ciavarella, Imperial)

2021-03-10 16:00: Estimating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 on mortality due to COVID-19 in the UK (Dr Rob Challen, University of Exeter)

2021-03-17 16:00: SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: Lessons from September-December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return (Dr Edward Hill, University of Warwick)

2021-03-24 16:00: Visualizing uncertain advice for command decision makers (Professor Nick Holliman (Newcastle University))

2021-03-31 16:00: Who gets freshers' flu and why? - a survey of coughs, colds and freshers' flu in the University of Cambridge, 2007-2008 (Maria Tang, University of Cambridge)

2021-04-07 16:00: Genomics and epidemiology of the novel SARS-CoV-2 P.1 lineage in Manaus (Professor Samir Bhatt, Imperial College London and University of Copenhagen )

2021-04-14 16:00: Building an open platform for pandemic modelling (Professor Simon Frost, Microsoft Research)

2021-04-21 16:00: Fast predictions of the COVID-19 spatiotemporal infection risk in indoor space (Dr Katerina Kaouri and Dr Thomas Woolley Cardiff University)

2021-05-05 16:00: Modelling the impact of lateral flow testing and isolation of close contacts on Covid-19 transmission within secondary schools in England (Trystan Leng, University of Warwick)

2021-05-26 16:00: Novel methods for estimating the instantaneous and overall COVID-19 case fatality ratio among care home residents in England (Dr Chris Overton, University of Manchester)

2021-06-09 16:00: LSOA level risk model and early detection system; a framework to incorporate mobility, vaccination, health background, land use factors, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in evaluating COVID19 prevalence and risk (Dr Kaveh Jahanshahi, Office of National Statistics)

2021-06-16 16:00: An agent-based model to simulate workplace transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (Dr Nicholas Warren, Health and Safety Executive, Science and Research Centre)

2021-06-23 16:00: Wastewater epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland: a tool for surveillance support? (Dr Gianluigi Rossi, University of Edinburgh)

2021-06-30 16:00: Open and FAIR – how can we improve traceability of modelling for public policy? (Dr Richard Reeve, University of Glasgoe)

2021-07-07 16:00: Selection in human viruses: From HIV to SARS-CoV-2 (and what the future might hold) (Dr Katrina Lythgoe, BDI, University of Oxford)

2021-07-14 16:00: Quantifying social mixing patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic; a cross-sectional study (Jessica Bridgen, Univerity of Lancaster)

2021-07-21 16:00: A longitudinal survey of contacts, symptoms, and behaviour in a university setting: Results, applications, and participants’ perspectives (Dr Emily Nixon, University of Bristol)

2021-09-08 16:00: Bayesian estimation of the instant growth rate of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases in England and forecasting, using Gaussian processes. (Dr Laura Guzman Rincon, University of Warick)

2021-10-13 16:00: Cluster outbreaks: are they isolated incidents and how can they be managed? (Dr Helena Stage, University of Manchester)

2021-10-20 16:00: A renewal equation model for disease transmission dynamics with contact tracing (Dr Francesca Scarabel, University of Manchester)

2021-11-03 16:00: A multidisciplinary approach to SARS-CoV-2 modeling (Dr Josh Schiffe, Fred Hutchingson Cancer Research Centre)

2021-11-10 16:00: Markers of mucosal immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination (Dr Amy Thomas, University of Bristol)

2021-11-17 16:00: Functional Phylogenetics on the Scale of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (Dr Emily Scher, University of Edinburgh)

2021-11-24 16:00: Effectiveness of symptomatic and asymptomatic testing strategies on reducing transmission in a population with high vaccination coverage &Inferring the relationship between viral load and infectiousness using contact tracing data (Dr Miguel Silva, University of Manchester & Dr Martyn Fyles, University of Manchester)

2022-01-12 16:00: The progression of severity of variants throughout the pandemic (Dr David Pascall (MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge))

2022-01-19 16:00: Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in England using a metapopulation approach (Dr Christopher Davis (University of Warwick))

2022-02-23 16:00: The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub: a multi-model effort towards addressing uncertainty during the pandemic in the United States  (Dr Rebecca Borchering, The Pennsylvania State University)

2022-03-02 16:00: A household-structured approach to modelling non-pharmaceutical interventions (Dr Joe Hilton, University of Warwick)

2022-03-23 16:00: The ethics of being a disease modeler (Dr Nathaniel Hupert, Weill Cornell Medicine)

2022-05-04 16:00: Estimating global spatial dynamics and vaccine-induced fitness changes of Bordetella pertussis using genetic data. (Noemie Lefrancq (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-11 16:00: What kind of distance underlies influenza transmission in the US? (Maria Tang, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-25 16:00: SARS-CoV-2 evolution: (Dis)entangled on multiple scales (Simon Rella, Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

2022-06-08 16:00: Modelling the impact of asymptomatic testing and isolation policies on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in workplaces (Carl Whitfield, University of Manchester)

2022-06-15 16:00: What activity types posed the greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection for a university community?  (Kirsty Bolton (University of Nottingham) & Emma Fairbanks (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute))

2022-06-29 16:00: Critical weaknesses in shielding strategies for COVID-19 (Cameron Smith & Kit Yates, University of Bath)

2022-07-06 16:00: Identifying sources of transmission for zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses (Dr Jennifer Lord, Department of Vector Biology Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

2022-07-13 16:00: Introducing JUNE (Frank Krauss, Durham University)

2022-10-06 11:00: Predictive performance of Covid-19 forecasts (Seb Funk LSHTM)

2022-10-13 11:00: An estimation framework to study epidemic fade-out using multiple outbreak data (Punya Alahakoon, University of Melbourne)

2022-10-20 11:00: A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5 (Sam Brand, University of Warwick)

2022-10-20 11:00: A retrospective look at the challenges of modelling for policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Kenya from Jan 2020 to BA.2/3/4/5 (Sam Brand, University of Warwick)

2022-10-27 11:00: Prediction Models For COVID-19 – lessons learnt (Glen Martin (University of Manchester))

2022-11-03 11:00: Data-driven approaches to surveillance of Covid-19 in the UK. (Ben Swallow University of St Andrews)

2022-11-24 11:00: Modelling informing COVID policy in a highly vaccinated Singapore (Hannah Clapham (NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health))

2022-12-01 11:00: Modelling the impact of social behaviour on infectious disease transmission: what we do and don't know! (Alison Hale, University of Lancaster)

2023-01-18 12:00: The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens (Maria A. Gutierrez - University of Cambridge)

2023-02-08 12:00: Inference on compartmental models: COVID-19 modelling at Sussex (Eduard Campillo-Funollet, Lancaster)

2023-02-17 12:00: Improving the representativeness of UK’s national COVID-19 Infection Survey through spatio-temporal regression and post-stratification (Koen Pouwels, Oxford)

2023-02-20 13:00: Modelling informing policy: Process and the Modeler’s role (Hannah Clapham, National University of Singapore)

2023-03-03 12:00: Models and Bayesian inference for disease outbreaks with whole-genome-sequence data (Philip O'Neill, University of Nottingham)

2023-03-08 12:00: Incorporating contact network structures into SARS-CoV-2 transmission models for care homes (Li Pi, University of Oxford)

2023-03-08 12:00: A novel discrete-time model with waning immunity   (Desmond Lai, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-15 12:00: Tragicomedy of the COVID-19 Response in Latvia – confession of a policymaker/modeller (Nikita Trojanskis - University of Oxford)

2023-05-17 12:00: Warwick-Lancaster global COVID-19 model (Ioana Bouros, University of Warwick)

2023-05-24 12:00: Approximating First Passage and Peak Timing Distributions for Epidemics (Jacob Curran-Sebastian, University of Manchester)

2023-05-31 12:00: Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response (Dr Adam Kucharski)

2023-05-31 12:00: Improving surveillance and software for epidemic response (Dr Adam Kucharski)

2023-06-07 12:00: The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease (Helena Stage)

2023-06-14 12:00: Modelling of the transmission of H5N1 in poultry farms and wild birds in the UK - preliminary results (Mike Tildesley and Jimmy McKendrick (University of Warwick))

2023-06-21 12:00: Trade-off theory and the surprising efficacy of early public health interventions: the case of faecal-oral diseases in England c.1840-1930 (Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure))

2023-06-28 12:00: Lessons from the COVID-19 on pandemic preparedness and response in Hong Kong (Kathy Leung, HKU)

2023-07-05 12:00: Detection of outbreaks using epidemiological and genetic data: case-study of Campylobacter infections in England (Laura Guzman (University of Warwick))

2023-07-12 12:00: The role of climate change in altering the risk of vector-borne disease (Helena Stage (University of Potsdam))

2023-08-09 12:00: Health care expenditures and national security: transformation of causal patterns in time of COVID-19 (Alina Vysochyna (Sumy State University))

2023-10-04 14:00: Comparative insights from modelling animal and human infectious diseases and applications for One Health (Emily Nixon (University of Liverpool))

2023-10-25 14:00: Real-world effectiveness of oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in Hong Kong (Carlos Wong)

2023-11-01 14:00: Integrating economics and behaviour into disease transmission modelling (David Haw, University of Liverpool)

2023-11-08 14:00: Collaborating across disciplines to model the elimination of an endemic livestock disease (Ewan Colman - University of Bristol)

2023-11-22 14:00: Within-host models of viral and bacterial infection (Martin Lopez-Garcia (University of Leeds))

2024-01-24 14:00: Short term forecasting of Acute Respiratory Infections and their impact on NHS hospital pressures for situational awareness over Winter. (Jonathon Mellor (UKHSA))

2024-02-07 14:00: Generating Medium-Term Projections of Covid-19 for Wales. (Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University) & Alma Rahat (Swansea University))

2024-02-14 14:00: Understanding Virus Evolution and Outbreaks through Phylodynamics: From Theory to Practice (Marina Zamudio (UCL))

2024-02-28 14:00: Detecting superspreaders in wildlife reservoirs of disease (Evandro Konzen (University of Warwick))

2024-03-06 14:00: When should lockdown be implemented? Devising cost-effective strategies for managing epidemics amid vaccine uncertainty (Nathan Doyle (University of Warwick))