University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, Department of Plant Sciences
Biography:
Expertise in: - mathematical modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of crop and tree diseases
Looking for collaborators in: - remote sensing for early detection of disease - using disease modelling in precision agricultural applications
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant and tree diseases. Theoretical work focuses on modelling disease spread, including stochastic and spatial models. Applied work concentrates on fitting simulation models to pathogen spread data, to understand how detection and control can be optimised, and on developing computational techniques for efficient simulation and parameterisation of spatially-explicit stochastic models at very large spatial scales.
Keywordsinvasion of new or recurrent animal and plant disease ; food security ; Risk assessment ; plant disease modelling ; control of antibiotic and pesticide resistance for plant and animal diseases ; control of plant disease ; infectious diseases ; plant disease resistance |
Collaborators
Key Publications
Cunniffe, N.J., Cobb, R.C., Meentemeyer, R.K., Rizzo, D.R. and Gilligan, C.A. (2016) Modeling when, where and how to manage a forest epidemic, motivated by sudden oak death in California Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Thompson, R.N., Gilligan, C.A. and Cunniffe, N.J. (2016) Detecting presymptomatic infection is necessary to forecast major epidemics in the earliest stages of infectious disease outbreaks PLoS Computational Biology.
Thompson, R.N., Cobb, R.C., Gilligan, C.A. and Cunniffe, N.J. (2016) Management of invading pathogens should be informed by epidemiology rather than administrative boundaries Ecological Modelling
Cunniffe, N.J., Stutt, R.O.J.H., DeSimone, R.E., Gottwald, T.R. and Gilligan, C.A. (2015) Optimising and communicating options for the control of invasive plant disease when there is epidemiological uncertainty PLoS Computational Biology.
Cunniffe N.J., Koskella, B., Metcalf, C.J.E., Parnell, S., Gottwald, T.R. and Gilligan, C.A. (2015) Thirteen challenges in modelling plant diseases Epidemics.
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