December
Ben gave a virtual talk for the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich.
Ben has a new paper out in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology about the maintenance of sex by parasitism in the absence of so-called ‘Red Queen Dynamics’.
November
Congratulations to Nar, who has successfully passed his thesis defence! He will be joining the Biology & Biochemistry department at Bath as a Teaching Fellow.
October
Lydia Buckingham has joined the group as a PhD student.
Ben is supervising an MMath project for Hettie Chapman, who will be working on STIs.
September
Ben has released a new preprint on how social information and disease combine to shape the coevolution of host sociality and parasite virulence.
August
Ben has a new paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies.
June
Congratulations to Tom Griffiths and Tim Coulter, who have finished their MMath projects and are graduating this summer.
March
Ben gave a Royal Institute Masterclass for ~100 teenagers on mathematical epidemiology called “Going Viral!”
Ben gave a talk in Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol on niche theory.
Ben has a new paper out in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on measuring coevolutionary dynamics in multi-species communities.
February
Ben is teaching MA10202: Modelling the dynamics of life 2 this semester for first-year Natural Science students and second-year Biology students.