Hi everyone!
I recently found out about epinowcast and have been reading back on discussions and packages. My goal is to get more involved in the community over the next couple of years.
I’m Alice and I do outbreak investigations, going back as far as possible. I have a background in epidemiology, genetics, and a little bit of palaeontology and physics.
At the moment, I’m doing a PhD in Biology at the University of Sussex as part of the Wessex One Health DTP working on EBLV-1 in serotines. Previously, I completed a MSc in Epidemiology at the University of Antwerp working on Lassa virus in Mastomys natalensis and I’ve been working on using fossil data to improve outbreak investigations using endogenous viral elements.
I’m generally interested in taking more mathematical approaches to understanding outbreaks in a One Health context and in using spatially explicit simulations with host data taking seasonality and population structure into account.
While I previously used only R, I’m looking to also use Julia and C++ in the future.
While I don’t have any projects published yet, previous conference posters/presentations included:
- Reconstructing pleistocene filoviruses from endogenous viral elements
- Spatio-temporal calibration of endogenous viral elements through the host fossil record
- Reconstructing ancient viral structures from endogenous viral elements: a case study in lophiiform filoviruses
- Mathematical modelling of seasonal patterns of Lassa virus infection and rodent control in Mastomys natalensis populations of Guinea