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The Population Modelling and Epidemiology Teaching and Research Group comprises a broad spectrum of expertise from statistics, informatics and image processing to dynamical systems and time series analysis. The uniting theme of the group is the use of modelling techniques to extract information from complex data sets with an emphasis on practical problems. Current research focuses on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, ecological complexity, marine and fisheries modelling, and mathematical cell biology. |
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Marine Population ModellingThe MPM group has strong research links with Marine Scotland as well as collaborations in large multi-university projects and with empirical scientists in other institutes. The group uses mathematical models to solve a variety of ecological and biological problems including fish stock management, nutrient impacts on ecosystem dynamics, linkage between individual behaviour and population dynamics, the effects of ocean currents on the productivity of copepods and the effect of multispecies interactions on complex marine ecosystems. |
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Mathematical BiologyResearch interests include the role of space in problems such as the speed and intensity of spatial epidemics, ecological complexity and evolutionary processes; models of antibiotic production; developmental cell signalling, cancer gene therapy and adaptive dynamics. |
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Epidemiology and Statistical InformaticsThe group has strong links with Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and the Veterinary Laboratory Agency (VLA) and collaborates both on a national and international level with experts in epidemiology and related fields. Research focuses on public health and the epidemiology of infectious diseases in both animals and humans. Research interests include spatial statistics, experimental design and image processing; stochastic and deterministic differential equations for the modelling of infectious diseases and risk , particularly in relation to animal diseases. |
