Prof Matt Keeling
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Matt KeelingProfessor Joint appointment with Life Sciences Office: B2.36 |
Research Interests: Population dynamics, mathematical biology, epidemiology, evolution, spatial systems, stochastic processes
Teaching Responsibilities 2011/12:
Term 1: MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology and Epidemiology
Most relevant recent publications (2009-2010):
Vernon, M.C. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Representing the UK's cattle herd as static and dynamic networks. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 276 469-476.
Heffernan, J.M. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Implications of vaccination and waning immunity. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 276 2071-2080.
Tildesley, M.J. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Is R0 a good predictor of epidemic size: Foot-and-Mouth disease in the UK. Theor. Biol. 75 133-141
House, T., Davies, G., Danon, L. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 A Motif-Based Approach to Network Epidemics. Bull. Math. Biol. 71 1693-1706
Dangerfield, C.E., Ross, J.V. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Integrating stochasticity and network structure into an epidemic model. J. R. Soc. Interface. 6 761-774
Jewell, C.P., Keeling, M.J. and Roberts, G.O. 2009 Predicting undetected infections during the 2007 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. J. R. Soc. Interface. 6 1145-151
Tildesley, M.J., Bessell, P.R., Keeling, M.J. and Woolhouse, M.E.J. 2009 The role of pre-emptive culling in the control of foot-and-mouth disease. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 276 3239-3248.
Keeling, M.J. and Ross. J.V. 2009 Efficient methods for studying stochastic disease and population dynamics. Theo. Pop. Biol. 258 623-629.
House, T.A. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Household structure and infectious disease transmission. Epidemiology and Infection. 137 654-661.
Danon, L., House, T., and Keeling, M.J. 2009 The role of routine versus random movements on the spread of disease in Great Britain. Epidemics 1 250-258.
Keeling, M.J. and Danon, L. 2009 Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. British Medical Bull. 92 33-42.
Brooks-Pollock, E. and Keeling, M.J. 2009 Herd size and bovine tuberculosis persistence in cattle farms in Great Britain. Prev Vet. Med. 92 360-365.
House, T. and Keeling, M.J. (2010) Insights from unifying modern approximations to infections on networks. J. Roy. Soc. Interface doi: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0179
Keeling, M.J., Danon, L., Vernon, M.C., and House, T.A. (2010) Individual identity and movement networks for disease metapopulations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107 8866-70
Rorres, C., Pelletier, S.T., Keeling, M.J. and Smith, G. (2010) Estimating the kernel parameters of premises-based stochastic models of farmed animal infectious disease epidemics using limited, incomplete, or ongoing data. Theoretical Population Biology. 78 46-53
Tildesley, M.J., House, T.A., Bruhn, M.C., Curry, R.J., O'Neil, M., Allpress, J.L., Smith, G. and Keeling, M.J. (2010) Impact of spatial clustering on disease transmission and optimal control. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107 1041-6
Ross, J.V., House, T.A. and Keeling, M.J. (2010) Calculation of Disease Dynamics in a Population of Households. PLoS ONE 5 e9666
House, T.A. and Keeling, M.J. (2010) The impact of contact tracing in clustered populations. PLoS Comput Biol 6 e1000721
Conlan, A.J.K., Rohani, P., Lloyd, A.L., Keeling, M.J. and Grenfell, B.T. (2010) Resolving the impact of waiting time distributions on the persistence of measles. J R Soc Interface 7 623-640
House, T., Hall, I., Danon, L., and Keeling, M.J. (2010) Contingency planning for a deliberate release of smallpox in Great Britain-the role of geographical scale and contact structure. BMC Infect Dis 10 25
Deardon, R., Brooks, S.P., Grenfell, B.T., Keeling, M.J., Tildesley, M.J., Savill, N.J., Shaw, D.J., and Woolhouse, M.E.J. (2010) Inference for Individual-level Models of Infectious Diseases in Large Populations. Stat Sinica 20 239-261
Current Research grants:
MRC, "Social contact survey and modelling the spread of influenza" (01/10/2008 - 30/09/2011)
BBSRC, "From curiosity to curative: developing Bdellovibrio as a living antibiotic" (01/10/2008 - 30/09/2011)
EPSRC, "Implications of clustering for network-based processes" (01/01/2010 - 31/12/2012)
BBSRC, "Modelling systems for managing bee disease: the epidemiology of European Foul Brood" (01/04/2011 - 31/03/2013)
Wellcome Trust, "State-of-the-art Epidemic Models" (01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012)
For more information and further publications see Matt Keeling's homepage or his Expertise profile

