SBIDER Seminars

Our seminars are held on Mondays 2-3pm, in MS.05 Zeeman Building.

A sandwich lunch is provided beforehand 1.15-2pm in MSB kitchen on floor 5.

All welcome!

Academic year 2025/26: Term 3

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
27 April		University of Ottawa	Population dynamics in dynamic landscapes
4 May
11 May		Edinburgh	Developing Digital Disease Diagnostics
18 May		Leeds	T-cell repertoires and cross-reactivity
25 May	Bank Holiday
1 June	Samraat Pawar	Imperial	Structural Complementarity Maximizes Feasibility and Stability in Microbial Community Coalescence
8 June	Kristyna Rysava	糖心TV	TBA
15 June	Will Hart	Oxford	Mathematical modelling of the end of infectious disease outbreaks
22 June	Leonard Dekens	Francis Crick Institute	The evolution of pleiotropy and polygenic compensation in intricate GP maps

Academic year 2025/26: Term 2

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
19 January		The Frances Crick Institution	Patterning in Dynamic Environments
2 Feb		Imperial College London	Pre-trained deep generative surrogates aiding Bayesian inference
9 Feb		UCL	Blood and urine: mathematical modelling for health	Lukas
16 Feb		The Frances Crick Institution	Mechanistic modelling and inference of gene regulation from time-resolved transcriptomics
23 Feb	Dan Hungerford	Liverpool	Maximising real world vaccine impact for reducing inequalitiesVaccine inequalities and vaccine evaluation methods in the UK
2 March	Raiha Browning	WEHI	New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges	Simon
9 March	Rob Deardon	University of Calgary	Bayesian behavioural change models: alarm, memory, and feedback

Academic year 2025/26: Term 1

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
13 October		University of Edinburgh	Stochastic geometry of active (living) matter
20 October		University of Sheffield	Nonlocal advection-diffusion for modelling organism space use and movement
27 October		The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India	Complex Trophic Structure Imparts Stability to Large Diverse Ecosystems
03 November		University of Bath	Modelling Infectious Diseases Within the Host: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19
10 November		Rothamsted Research	Surveillance of ash trees under multiple threats: integrating Emerald Ash Borer dynamics and Ash Dieback prevalence with a) land manager behaviour, and b) volunteer surveillance
17 November	, Steve Wu, Elliot Vincent	University of 糖心TV	Diana Meza: Taming Ecological Complexity: Statistical Models of Bighorn Sheep Contact Networks Steve Wu: The role of ducks in detecting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in small-scale backyard poultry farms Elliot Vincent: Modelling the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as a sustainable method of crop disease control
24 November		University of Cambridge	Estimating Vaccine Impact across Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's portfolio
1 December	no seminar
8 December		UCL	Blood and urine: mathematical modelling for health

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PREVIOUS SEMINARS

Term 3 Seminars (Apr-June 2024)

Academic year 2024/25: Academic year 2024/25: Term 3

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
28th April	Igor Nesteruk	Visiting 糖心TV/SBIDER from Institute of Hydromechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine	Pandemic duration and efficiency of Zero-COVID strategy, testing and vaccinations
5th May	Bank holiday
12th May	Oyetunde Oyeyemi	University of Ondo, Nigeria	Proposed modelling framework to assess malaria susceptibility in schistosomiasis co-infected populations in Nigeria
19th May	Weiren Yu	University of 糖心TV	Scaling transitivity-aware graph-theoretic similarity model on billion-sized networks
26th May	Bank holiday
2nd June		Imperial College London	Predicting pathogen evolution with applications to outbreak detection, evolution of antimicrobial resistance, and variant surveillance
9th June	Kirsty Hassall	University of 糖心TV	Agricultural monitoring of soil, pests and beneficial insects
16th June		University of Cambridge	The OxWell study of adolescent wellbeing: understanding what young people are telling us
23rd June	Emma Fairbanks	University of 糖心TV	Predicting the impact of vector-controls tools

Academic year 2024/25: Term 2

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
13 January	short presentations from SBIDER PIs	University of 糖心TV	N/A
20 January		University of Yaound茅 1 (Cameroon)	Modelling the Impact of the Sterile insect technique with accidental releases of sterile females on mosquito-borne diseases control when viruses are circulating
27 January	Edward Offord, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu	University of 糖心TV	Edward Offord: Single cell time series analysis using graph neural networks Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu: Scalable Graph Neural Networks: Systems and Applications
3 February		University of Glasgow	Understanding mechanisms of inter-epidemic Rift Valley Fever virus transmission
10 February		University of Southampton	MELD-B: clustering burden indicators in routine healthcare data
17 February		University of Southampton	Neglected tropical diseases, climate change and entering the Chief鈥檚 Palace: health needs, challenges and anecdotes around Last Mile populations in rural Ghana
24 February		Imperial College London	Mechanistic modelling of allergic diseases – From mechanisms to prediction
3 March		University of Surrey	Multidisciplinary approaches to inform sustainable public health policy: The example of Cystic Echinococcosis
10 March	Poster session	N/A	N/A

Academic year 2024/25: Term 1

	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
7 October		University of Leeds	Numerical methods for structured population models in ecology and epidemiology
14 October		University of 糖心TV	Applications of branching processes to disease emergence and elimination
21 October		University of Durham	Spatial models of forest-savanna bistability
28 October		University of Surrey	Mathematical modelling of the sleep-wake cycle: light, clocks and digital-twins
4 November		Heriot-Watt University	Pathogen persistence in wildlife populations
11 November		Newcastle University	Modelling the spread of tree diseases and invasive pests through UK treescapes
18 November		Queen Mary University of London	Mathematical models of extra-chromosomal DNA and their applications in cancer
25 November	Matt Keeling	University of 糖心TV	Cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination
2 December		University of Glasgow	Predicting spatial expansions in the risk of virus spillover from vampire bats

	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 糖心TV	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鈥檚 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 糖心TV	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, 糖心TV), (Tokyo).	Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.	From preferences to endogenous behaviour in disease & vice-versa
22nd January		Mathematics Institute, Oxford.	Applications of Topological Data Analysis in Biology. Abstract.
29th January		Department of Mathematics, UCL, London	Positional information theory. Abstract.
5th February		UK Health Security Agency	On embeddings, distances, phylogenies, and All That. Abstract
12th February		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		Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel	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 糖心TV/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		Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool.	Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases within a One Health framework. Abstract.
6th November		Curie Institute, Paris	Quantitative Systems Pharmacology to Personalize Temozolomide-based Drug Combinations against Brain Tumors. Abstract.
13th November		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.
27th November	NO SEMINAR	NOTE: postponed until next term.
4th December	NO SEMINAR	NOTE Meaghan Kall is postponed until next term.

Term 3 Seminars 2023

	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
24th April	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	糖心TV University	Distinguishing imported cases from locally acquired cases within a geographically limited genomic sample of an infectious disease.
22nd May	Location: MS.05	Imperial College London	TBA. Likely epidemiological modelling, possibly on malaria.
29th May	BANK HOLIDAY
5th June	Location: MS.05	Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge	Calcium signalling and excitability in invasive cancer cells
12th June	Location: MS.05	University of 糖心TV	TimeTeller: a tool to analyse from data the circadian clock as a multigene dynamical system.
19th June	(Big data Institute, Oxford) Location: MS.05	University of Oxford	TBA: Likely modelling/analysis of schistosome infections
26th June	(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

23rd January PS1.28	Adam N. Sanborn/ Nick Chater	Department of Psychology (Waarwick)/WBS	Bayesian brains without probabilities. Abstract.
30th January OC0.05	Bruno Martins	糖心TV School of Life Sciences	Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria. Abstract
6th February OC1.02		School of Biodiversity, University of Glasgow.	Vampire bats and mosquitoes: combining surveillance and genomics to dissect the impacts of disease control in the field
13th February OC1.02		Institute of cancer Research	Measuring cancer evolutionary dynamics using maths and genomics. Abstract.
20th February OC1.02		Faculty of Mathematics, Cambridge.	Modelling and Statistical inference with Stochastic partial differential equations. Abstract.
27th February OC1.02	Sorry no seminar.		Hugh Robinson will hopefully present next term.
6th March OC1.02		School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham.	Bayesian nonparametric inference for stochastic infectious disease models. Abstract
13th March OC1.02	Sorry no seminar.		(Big data Institute, Oxford) will speak next term on 19th June.

Term 1 Seminars 2022/2023

26th October	Anna Seale	糖心TV Medical School	Group A Strep in early life
10th October	Timothy Saunders	糖心TV 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	糖心TV Maths & MathSys	Parameter estimation for macroscopic pedestrian dynamics models using individual trajectories
7th November	Joe Hilton	SBIDER	CANCELLED
14th November	Stephen Parnell	糖心TV 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	糖心TV Maths & MathSys	Mesoscale structure in temporal networks

PRE-COVID SEMINARS

7th Oct	No Monday seminar this week, but a special Wednesday seminar from (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		Yale University	Form and function of feet and fins. Abstract
28th Oct		London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Visceral Leishmanias on the Indian Subcontinent: predictions, targets and dynamics. Abstract
~~4th Nov~~		University of Dundee	REARRANGED FOR 12th FEB 2020
11th Nov		University of Bath	Finding your niche: how competition drives patterns of diversity. Abstract
18th Nov		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		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 糖心TV	Dial-a-Plume: Localised Photo-Bio-Convection on Demand. Abstract
20th May		University of 糖心TV (SBIDER)	An analytical journey from pathogen genetics to epidemiology. Abstract
27th May	bank holiday
3rd June		University of Glasgow	Emergent clustering of species traits as a driver of biodiversity. Abstract
10th June
17th June		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

12th April

(NOTE FRIDAY)

Massey University

Mathematical eco-epidemiology and the dilution effect. Abstract

Term 2 Seminars 2018/19

21st January		University of Birmingham	Novel strategies to tackle bacterial infections: targeting adhesion and persistence. Abstract
28th January		University of York	Illuminating the black box of DNA-Protein Interactions. Abstract
4th February		University of 糖心TV (SBIDER)	Testing models of mRNA localization reveals robustness regulated by reducing transport between cells. Abstract
11th February		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		University of Oxford	Comparing models and biological data using computational algebra and topology. Abstract
25th February		University of Bath	Strength in numbers: how demographic noise can reverse the direction of selection. Abstract
4th March	Dr Ben Swallow	University of 糖心TV (SBIDER)	Efficient Bayesian parameter inference for high-dimensional stochastic biological systems using the phase-corrected linear noise approximation. Abstract
11th March		University of 糖心TV	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