Research
The ecology of infectious diseases in wildlife populations
The ecology of infectious diseases in wildlife populations, especially diseases transmisible to humans, both within the UK and worldwide (e.g. leptospirosis in Brazilian favelas and bubonic plague in Central Asia).
Research grants
Determinants and consequences of intra- and inter-specific defence strategy variation in natural systems
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
January 2018 - December 2019
Assessment of the nature of small terrestrial predators’ movements and their importance as alternative plague carriers
BRITISH COUNCIL (UK)
April 2016 - March 2019
Optimal control strategies for rodent-borne zoonoses in Brazilian slum settlements
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2017 - September 2019
Ecoepidemiology of Leptospirosis in the urban slums of Brazil
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (USA)
September 2012 - July 2017
Predicting the effects of climate change on infectious diseases of animals
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2007 - March 2013
Cross-species transmission of microparasites between introduced and native woodland rodents in Ireland.
BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY (UK)
September 2002 - July 2003
MAFF Veterinary Research Fellowship in Epidemiology.
MINISTRY AGRIC/FISHERIES/FOOD
November 1999 - October 2004
Wild rodents as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance for farm animals and man - current status, origins and mechanisms of persistence.
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (UK)
October 2000 - September 2003
The dynamics of, and risks posed by, concomitant zoonotic infections in their wildlife reservoirs.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
January 2005 - June 2008
Interactions amongst ixodid ticks, microparasites and rodent reservoirs in the natural maintenance of granulocytic Ehrlichiae.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
January 2000 - September 2003
'Diversity and evolution of vertebrate immune system genes in the natural environment
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2012 - November 2015
Genetic variation and the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions (EDGE).
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 1998 - August 2001
Immunodynamics of field voles
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2007 - April 2011
Immunodynamics and Infectious disease risk in the natural environment
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2015 - July 2020
Ljungan Virus - an undetected but dangerous zoonotic agent
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2007 - November 2008
Diagnostics and control of rodent-borne viral zoonoses in Europe (RODENT-BORNE ZOONOSES).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2002 - October 2005
The role of wildlife in the epidemiology of campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis and VTEC infections (Wildlife).
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (UK)
April 2004 - December 2009
Emerging diseases in a changing European environment (EDEN).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
November 2004 - May 2010
Vertebrate-pathogen dynamics: population size and a comparison of pathogens.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 1998 - February 2001
Gabriel Ghizzi Pedra - bench fees
COORDENACAO DE APERFEICOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NIVEL SUPERIOR (CAPES) (BRAZIL)
December 2014 - February 2019
CASE top-up: Transmission dynamics and pathogenesis of squirrelpox in UK red and grey squirrels
NATIONAL TRUST (UK)
October 2009 - September 2013
Workshop - Predicting Zoonotic Outbreaks: Building on the Plague Threshold Model
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2007 - April 2008
The plague of Central Asia - an epidemiological study focusing on space-time dynamics (STEPICA).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 2001 - December 2004
The detailed dynamics of plague in its reservoir host in Kazakhstan.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
July 2001 - June 2006
Multi-host multi-pathogen dynamics in natural wildlife populations.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2001 - March 2006
Advances in the prediction of plague outbreaks in Central Asia
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
April 2010 - November 2013
Royal Society conference grant.
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
December 2002 - February 2003
The Liverpool Bespoke Oligoarray Facility (L-BOF).
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2005 - January 2008