David TS Hayman

Jesse Mulligan interview about our MentorEd charity

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:56:39 +1300

We were delighted that Radio New Zealand's Jesse Mulligan interviewed Mercedes about our charity. You can listen here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018717285/mentor-programme-for-disadvantaged-kids

Directorship of IDReC, Massey's Infectious Disease Research Centre

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:00:40 +1300

I'm delighted to have taken over as director of Massey's Infectious Disease Research Centre after Nigel French. You can find more on the virtual centre here.

New PhD student Paul Ogbuigwe joins the group

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:57:48 +1300

Paul joins the group after doing his BSc and MRes at the The University of Glasgow, with research on oxidative stress in C. elegans then in D. melanogaster, followed by an MSc in Synthetic Biology at Newcastle University. You can see more here.

PhD student C Reed Hranac and I attended a workshop in the US of white-nose syndrome

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:09:32 +1300

You can find out more about bats and our work on them at this new website https://www.science4bats.org/

NZ Herald feature

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:08:14 +1300

The NZ Herald ran a feature on the work contained in my recently awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship which you can find here.

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:32:13 +1300

I was privileged to be awarded a 5 year mid-career Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand. You can read more here

Global distribution of Cryptosporidium and Giardia genotypes and comparison with our large NZ database published

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:23:37 +1200

We just published the local New Zealand and global genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium and Giardia genotypes in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases here.

Editor's pick of the issue in Parasitology Research

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:53:34 +1200

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

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:26:53 +1200

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...

We launched a new charity to help disadvantaged kids

Tue, 09 May 2017 23:43:04 +1200

MentorEd: My wife and I launched a new charity with a friend that aim to boost confidence and achievement in the most disadvantaged kids in NZ. Please check out the website to read more about it http://mentored.org.nz/

NZ Herald covers our work on forest fragmentation and Ebola virus emergence

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:41:35 +1200

New Zealand Herald article on our work.

Forest fragmentation and Ebola virus disease outbreaks

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:43:05 +1300

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.

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:40:14 +1300

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.

The Global Phylogeography of Lyssaviruses - Challenging the 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:37:48 +1300

Our new research is the first to address the 'Out of Africa' hypothesis for the origin of lyssaviruses, the most famous of which is rabies virus. We found support for a Paleartic origin. See more in PLoS NTD.

Paper of the Month in Parasitology

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:33:36 +1300

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'.

The timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts

Sun, 04 Sep 2016 17:30:02 +1200

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.

Bats as viral reservoirs

Sun, 04 Sep 2016 17:27:35 +1200

New review of bats as hosts of viruses published in Annual Review of Virology.

Can survival analyses detect hunting pressure in a highly connected species? Lessons from straw-coloured fruit bats

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:23:16 +1200

New research with Ali Peel tested whether we could use survival analyses from heavily hunted, but pandemic, species to detect hunting pressure published in Conservation Biology.

Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 17:15:14 +1200

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

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:38:24 +1300

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

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 09:10:34 +1300

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

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:23:49 +1300

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

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 20:56:03 +1300

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

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:14:25 +1300

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

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:13:16 +1300

I was awarded the Massey University Research Medal (Early Career, Science, 2015)

Seoul Defense Dialogue 2015, Korea

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:12:23 +1200

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)

Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:11:00 +1200

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

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:41:50 +1200

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

C Code

Janelle Wierenga, MSc, DVM, enrolled to undertake a PhD on cross-species transmission

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:09:59 +1200

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

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:08:31 +1200

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NPR Interview on bats and Ebola in West Africa

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:58:55 +1300

I was interviewed by NPR's Morning Edition on bats and Ebola in West Africa.

Science Media Centre briefing, Auckland

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:01:10 +1300

I recently spoke at a briefing held by the Science Media Centre in Auckland.

Work led by my Smith Fellowship mentor Paul Cryan, USGS, on monitoring bats

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:04:50 +1300

Work led by my Smith Fellowship mentor Paul Cryan, USGS, on monitoring bats at wind turbines recently received substantial media interest. Examples are here, and you can watch the videos on the ScienceNews website.

NGO event hosted by AAAS

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:06:35 +1200

I recently spoke at an NGO event hosted by AAAS, Elizabeth R Griffin Research Foundation and other NGOs on the "Prevent Panel" regarding how conservation may help reduce spillover of infectious disease such as ebola virus from bats to humans. This meeting was in association with the US White House's Global Health Security Agenda Meeting, hosted in the White House the next day.

Local Press Interviews

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:08:33 +1200

Local New Zealand Press Interviews about the spread of the Ebola virus.

New Zealand Royal Society Science Media Centre on Ebola

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:10:46 +1200

Click on the image below to see a full list of my publications and collaborators

David TS Hayman

Jesse Mulligan interview about our MentorEd charity

Directorship of IDReC, Massey's Infectious Disease Research Centre

New PhD student Paul Ogbuigwe joins the group

PhD student C Reed Hranac and I attended a workshop in the US of white-nose syndrome

NZ Herald feature

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

Global distribution of Cryptosporidium and Giardia genotypes and comparison with our large NZ database published

Editor's pick of the issue in Parasitology Research

New: Long-term video surveillance and automated analyses reveal arousal patterns in groups of hibernating bats

We launched a new charity to help disadvantaged kids

NZ Herald covers our work on forest fragmentation and Ebola virus emergence

Forest fragmentation and Ebola virus disease outbreaks

As the bat flies: a Perspective in Science on bats as viral reservoirs.

The Global Phylogeography of Lyssaviruses - Challenging the 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis

Paper of the Month in Parasitology

The timing of Cryptosporidium evolution and its hosts

Bats as viral reservoirs

Can survival analyses detect hunting pressure in a highly connected species? Lessons from straw-coloured fruit bats

Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses

2 year postdoc on antimicrobial resistance

EMBO Reports : further reading

Marsden Fast Start Grant - Unpacking Infection Spillover Dynamics $300,000

C Reed Hranac joined the group as an IVABS PhD scholar

One Health Fellowships by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences​

Awarded the Massey University Research Medal

Seoul Defense Dialogue 2015, 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)

​I recently became Co-Director of the mEpiLab with Jackie Benschop

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​

NPR Interview on bats and Ebola in West Africa

Science Media Centre briefing, Auckland

Work led by my Smith Fellowship mentor Paul Cryan, USGS, on monitoring bats

NGO event hosted by AAAS

Local Press Interviews

New Zealand Royal Society Science Media Centre on Ebola

One Health Fellowships by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences

I recently became Co-Director of the mEpiLab with Jackie Benschop

Became an Associate at the Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA