Matthew Vernon

Introduction

I am a research fellow in Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick, funded by the Wellcome Trust; I work with Matt Keeling. I am a qualified veterinary surgeon, and did my PhD at Cambridge University, where my topic was "Spatial Spread of Farm Animal Diseases".

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Research Interests

My research centers around the role animal movements have in the spread of infectious diseases of farm animals. More specifically, I am combining techniques from social network analysis with simulated disease processes to try and understand what aspects of a network's structure are important for the dynamics of disease on that network, particularly as applied to the UK cattle herd. I am also interested in the policy implications of this work, particularly as it relates to control of exotic diseases of livestock.

Publications and Presentations

  • Matthew C. Vernon (2011) Demographics of cattle movements in the United Kingdom. BMC Veterinary Research, 7:31 (open-access full text)
  • Leon Danon, Ashley P. Ford, Thomas House, Chris P. Jewell, Matt J. Keeling, Gareth O. Roberts,2 Joshua V. Ross, Matthew C. Vernon (2011) Networks and the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2011, Article ID 284909 (open-access full text)
  • Matt J. Keeling, Leon Danon, Matthew C. Vernon, Thomas A. House (2010) Individual identity and movement networks for disease metapopulations. PNAS, 107(19):8866-8870 (open-access full text)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Cerian R. Webb, M. Fred Heath (2010) A postal survey of contacts between the cattle farms on the Isle of Lewis. Veterinary Record, 166:37-40 (Pubmed record)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Matt J. Keeling (2009) Representing the UK's cattle herd as static and dynamic networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276:469-476 (open-access full text)
  • M. Fred Heath, Matthew C. Vernon, Cerian R. Webb (2008). Construction of networks with intrinsic temporal structure from UK cattle movement data. BMC Veterinary Research, 4:11 (open-access full text)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Matt J. Keeling (2008). Simulating infectious diseases using network and individual-based models. 28th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Florida, USA, January 2008.
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Matt J. Keeling (2007). Representing the United Kingdom's cattle herd as static and dynamic networks. Joint Annual Meetings of The Society for Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology, San Jose, USA, July-August 2007. (abstract)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Cerian R. Webb, M. Fred Heath (2007). How important are cattle movements? A field study of contact networks between farms. 27th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Corfu, Greece, May 2007. (A4 PDF of poster)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Cerian R. Webb, M. Fred Heath (2006). The global structure of networks and veterinary disease modelling. 26th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April 2006. (abstract)
  • Matthew C. Vernon, Cerian R. Webb, M. Fred Heath (2005). Preliminary analysis of the contact structure of the UK cattle herd. 25th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, California, USA, February 2005. (abstract)
  • CN Torgler; M Narasimha; AL Knox; CG Zervas; MC Vernon; NH Brown (2004). Tensin stabilises integrin adhesive contacts in Drosophila. Developmental Cell, 6:357-369 (abstract)

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