Category Archives: CADMS

The lab is moving

Posted on January 8, 2008 by

So the holidays are over and the new year starts by moving the entire ADM (Animal Disease Modeling) lab to the UCD campus. Until now we have been located way off-campus; sans seminars, other labs, and academic life in general. … Continue reading →

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Epigrass: a tool to study disease spread in complex networks

Posted on July 14, 2007 by

Recently a preprint manuscript was posted on the Nature Precedings site entitled Epigrass: a tool to study disease spread in complex networks by Flávio Codeço Coelho et al. (Flávio also happens to have the blog Python in Science). Epigrass is … Continue reading →

Posted in CADMS, computer simulations, epidemiology, FMD, foot-and-mouth disease, livestock, manuscript, metapopulation, Nature Precedings | Leave a comment

Bears on the difficulty of obtaining good data

Posted on July 3, 2007 by

There is a story today on the Browfield Ag News for America about Protecting the U.S. from foot-and-mouth disease. There is a sound clip of the story and and an interview with my boss Tim Carpenter here. I don’t usually … Continue reading →

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What am I up to at CADMS?

Posted on May 28, 2007 by

These days my research is largely focused on theoretical epidemiology. At CADMS I am working on several projects, most of which are centered around various theoretical aspects of epidemiological dynamics. My main research interest addresses the epidemiological dynamics of finite … Continue reading →

Posted in academia, CADMS, epidemiology, FMD, Heinrich zu Dohna, metapopulation, postdocing, science, Tim Carpenter | 1 Comment