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
Research
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.
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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