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 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.
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'.
Origin of a major infectious disease in vertebrates. This analysis led by Juan Carlos Garcia Ramirez uses calibrated molecular clocks and cophylogeny to estimate the timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts, published in Parasitology.
We have a two year postdoctoral fellowship available in our group to work on antimicrobial resistance: http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz/9178/postdoctor...
Click here for the supplementary reading that I refer to in a recent opinion piece, Conservation as vaccination, published in EMBO reports (e201541675).
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.
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.
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