Teaching 2009/10

MA20201 Modelling the Dynamics of Life
MA40197 Mathematical Modelling in Ecology, Evolution and Epidemiology
MA50199 Topic Review in Mathematical Biology

Research

Mechanistic mathematical models of host-pathogen systems
Mathematical models of evolutionary processes
Epidemiology, evolution and seasonal variation in demographic or transmission patterns
Epidemiology, evolution and immune cross-reaction
Spatial structure and pathgen emergence, persistence, diversity
Dengue,a seasonal, vector-borne virus with immune cross-enhancement
Influenza, a seasonal, aerosol-borne virus with rapid antigenic evolution
Leishmaniasis, a vector-borne virus that infects dogs as well as humans

Publications

Journal articles

• Adams, B. and Boots, M. (2010) How important is vertical tansmission in mosquitoes for the persistence of dengue? Insights from a mathematical model. Epidemics. In press.
• Omori, R., Adams, B. and Sasaki, A. (2010) Coexistence conditions for strains of influenza with immune cross-reaction. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 262(1): 48-57.
  


• McHardy, A.C. and Adams, B. (2009) The role of genomics in tracking the evolution of influenza A virus. PLoS Pathogens.  5(10): e10000566. 
• Adams, B. and Sasaki, A. (2009) Antigenic distance and cross-immunity, invasibility and coexistence of pathogen strains in an epidemiological model with discrete antigenic space. Theoretical Population Biology. 76(3): 157 - 167.
  
• Adams, B. and Kapan, D. (2009) Man Bites Mosquito: Understanding the Contribution of Human Movement to Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics. PLoS One. 4(8):e6763.


• Adams, B. and Sasaki, A. (2007) Cross-immunity, invasion and coexistence of pathogen strains in epidemiological models with one-dimensional antigenic space. Mathematical Biosciences. 210(2): 680-699.
• Irie, T. and Adams, B. (2007) Sexual dimorphism of soft body weight in adult Monetaria annulus (Family Cypraeidae). The Veliger 49(3):209-211.
• Adams, B. and Boots, M. (2007) The influence of immune cross-reaction on phase structure in resonant solutions of a multi-strain seasonal SIR model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 248:202-211.


• Adams, B., Holmes, E. C., Zhang, C., Mammen, M. P., Nimmannitya, S., Kalayanarooj and Boots, M. (2006) Cross-protective immunity can account for the alternating epidemic pattern of dengue virus serotypes circulating in Bangkok. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 103:14234-14239.
• Adams, B. and Boots, M. (2006) Modelling the relationship between antibody-dependent enhancement and immunological distance with application to dengue. Journal of Theoretical Biology 242:337-346.


• Adams, B., White, A. and Lenton, T. M. (2004). An analysis of some diverse approaches to modelling terrestrial net primary productivity. Ecological Modelling 177:352-391.


• Adams, B. and Carr, J. (2003). Spatial pattern formation in a model of vegetation-climate feedback.Nonlinearity 16:1339-1357.
• Adams, B., Carr, J., Lenton, T. M. and White, A. (2003). One dimensional daisyworld: spatial interactions and pattern formation.Journal of Theoretical Biology 223:505-513.

Book chapters and refereed conference proceedings

• Adams, B., McHardy, A.C., Lundegaard, C and Lengauer T. (2008) Viral Bioinformatics. In: Frishman, D. and Valencia, A. (Eds), Modern Genome Annotation, Springer Verlag, NY.
• Cha, M., Mislove, A., Adams, B. and Gummadi, K. (2008) Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), August 2008.
  

History

2007 - 2008: Postdoctoral Researcher (with Alice McHardy), Max Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany.
2005 - 2007: Research Associate (JSPS, with Akira Sasaki), Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
2003 - 2005: Research Associate (Wellcome Trust, with Mike Boots), Department of Animal & Plant Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
2000 - 2003: PhD (EPSRC, with Andy White and Tim Lenton), Heriot-Watt University and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, UK.