Editor's pick of the issue in Parasitology Research
Juan Carlos Garcia Ramirez and I have now twice received 'Editor's paper of the issue' in less than 12 months for work on the co-speciation and evolution of Cryptosporidium. This time it is for the paper titled "Evolutionary processes in populations of Cryptosporidium inferred from gp60 sequence data" in Parasitology Research. Please check it out in issue Volume 116, Issue 7, pp 1855–1861: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-0...
New: Long-term video surveillance and automated analyses reveal arousal patterns in groups of hibernating bats
Our new paper is out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution on long-term video surveillance using infrared camera and automated analyses that reveal arousal patterns in groups of hibernating bats. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-21...
NZ Herald covers our work on forest fragmentation and Ebola virus emergence
Forest fragmentation and Ebola virus disease outbreaks
New analyses support there being a link between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks. This work was led by Cristina Rulli and published in Scientific Reports.
As the bat flies: a Perspective in Science on bats as viral reservoirs.
A Perspective in Science highlighting the great work by Daniel Streicker at Glasgow as well as other recent advances in our knowledge regarding bats as viral reservoirs.
Paper of the Month in Parasitology
Juan Carlos' paper, Origin of a major infectious disease in vertebrates: The timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts, was Parasitology Editor's 'Paper of the Month'.
Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses
New analyses led by Barbara Han to identify undiscovered filovirus hosts, including those of Ebola virus, published in PLoS NTD.
2 year postdoc on antimicrobial resistance
We have a two year postdoctoral fellowship available in our group to work on antimicrobial resistance: http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz/9178/postdoctor...
EMBO Reports : further reading
Click here for the supplementary reading that I refer to in a recent opinion piece, Conservation as vaccination, published in EMBO reports (e201541675).
Marsden Fast Start Grant - Unpacking Infection Spillover Dynamics $300,000
I am delighted to have been awarded this grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand. The project will involve modelling the spillover effects of infectious diseases using a mathematical model of human, livestock and gorilla interactions from Uganda.
Project Collaborators
Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH, Uganda), led by Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, will be the local collaborator. CTPH has over 10 years’ experience using Population, Health and Environment approaches to reduce threats to mountain gorillas
Jamie Lloyd-Smith (University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, USA) has extensive experience studying ‘spillover’ dynamics at the human-animal interface.
Hayley MacGregor (University of Sussex, UK) is a human clinician and medical anthropologist with extensive experience working with communities in Africa.
C Reed Hranac joined the group as an IVABS PhD scholar
Reed Hranac, MSc, joined the group here in New Zealand and will be working with myself and Jonathan Marshall with a number of collaborators on the temporal and spatial dynamics of infectious diseases in bats. His focus will be filoviruses and white-nose syndrome. Reed did his MSc at Northern Arizona University in the US with Dr Nathan Nieto on the ecology of rodent-borne hantaviruses.
One Health Fellowships by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences
I was invited to join an Ad Hoc Committee on One Health Fellowships by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Awarded the Massey University Research Medal
I was awarded the Massey University Research Medal (Early Career, Science, 2015)
Seoul Defense Dialogue 2015, Korea
I spoke at the Seoul Defense Dialogue 2015, Korea, on Global Health Security. The meeting was opened by the President of Korea.
Work led by Angie Luis on the network structure of host-virus communities in bats and rodents came out in Ecology Letters (doi: 10.1111/ele.12491)
Work led by Angie Luis on the network structure of host-virus communities in bats and rodents came out in Ecology Letters (doi: 10.1111/ele.12491)
I recently became Co-Director of the mEpiLab with Jackie Benschop
C code for the publication: Hayman, “Biannual birth pulses allow filoviruses to persist in bat populations”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1803, p. 20142591, 2015
Janelle Wierenga, MSc, DVM, enrolled to undertake a PhD on cross-species transmission
Janelle Wierenga, MSc, DVM, enrolled to undertake a PhD on cross-species transmission
Became an Associate at the Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA
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NPR Interview on bats and Ebola in West Africa
I was interviewed by NPR's Morning Edition on bats and Ebola in West Africa.
Science Media Centre briefing, Auckland
I recently spoke at a briefing held by the Science Media Centre in Auckland.
