RESEARCH PROFILE

I am interested in understanding how ecological processes underpin biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability. Much of my work involves host-parasite interactions and/or spatially-extended systems (e.g. metapopulations). I use integrated techniques, from genomics to population modelling, and combine mathematical and statistical analysis with experimental data and field observations. Currently, my research focuses on insect pollinator disease and seagrass habitat conservation. However, I also work on a diverse range of other projects, including metapopulation theory and crop pest dynamics. In the past, I have worked on host-parasitoid dynamics, marine mammal disease and genetically modified insect viruses.

I am a participant in the Warwick Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research group:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/matt_keeling/wider

I collaborate extensively within Life Sciences (principally, Prof David Evans, Dr Dave Chandler, Dr Eugene Ryabov), as well as with researchers in other Warwick Departments (Prof Matt Keeling, Maths Institute; Prof Nigel Burroughs, Systems Biology). I also work with researchers in FERA, Bath, Newcastle and BBSRC's TGAC on Honeybee disease, as well as participating in a European COST Action on Seagrass (ES0906).

Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

British Ecological Society Member

BACKGROUND

2006-Present: Wellcome Trust 'Value in People' Research Fellow, Warwick

2004-2006: PDRA, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London

2001-2004: PDRA, Silwood Park

1997-2001: PhD, Imperial College

1993-1996: BA, Biological Sciences, Oxford

Since 2004, I have been a British Sub-Aqua Club Advanced Instructor (SCUBA) and I obtained a Graduate Diploma in Statistics from the Open University in 2009.

TEACHING PROFILE

Courses Taught

• I am running a field course in West Wales for 2nd year Environmental Biology students.
• BS371 - Environmental Science and Management [details]
• BS116 - Quantitative Biology [details]
• I am module convenor for the 1st year Biochemistry Laboratory classes. [details]
• BS267 - Ecology Principles and Processes [details]
• BS127 - Agents of Infectious Disease [details]

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Unravelling the impact of the mite varroa destructor on the interaction between the honeybee and its viruses, with Professor David J Evans, Life Sciences, Dr James C Bull - Biological Sciences Prof Nigel J Burroughs - Systems Biology Centre Dr Eugene V Ryabov - Warwick HRI Dr David Chandler - Warwick HRI Dr Yiguo Hong - Warwick HRI, Funded by: BBSRC, Project Start Date: 01/01/2011 Project End Date: 31/12/2013
• Full proposal: Modelling systems for managing bee disease: the epidemiology of European Foul Brood, with Professor Matthew J Keeling, Biological Sciences, - Dr James C Bull - Biological Sciences, Funded by: BBSRC, Project Start Date: 01/11/2010 Project End Date: 31/10/2013
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Bull, J. C., Kenyon, E. J. and Cook, K. J.(2012) 'Wasting disease regulates long-term population dynamics in a threatened seagrass, Zostera marina' Oecologia
• Bull, J. C., Kenyon, E. J., Edmunds, D. and Cook K. J.(2010) 'Recent loss of Gibraltar seagrasses' Botanica Marina 53 (1), 89 - 91
• Bull, J. C. and Bonsall, M. B.(2010) 'Predators reduce extinction risk in noisy metapopulations' PLoS One 5 e11635 (1932-6203)
• Bull, J. C. and Bonsall, M. B.(2008) 'Overcompensatory population dynamic responses to environmental stochasticity' Journal Of Animal Ecology 77 (6), 1296 - 1305 (0021-8790)
• Taema, M. M., Bull, J. C,. Macgregor, S. K., Flach, E. J., Boardman, W. S. and Routh, A. D.(2008) 'Retrospective study of Campylobacter infection in a zoological collection' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74 (5), 1332 - 1338 (0099-2240)

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