2017
01/09/2017 - We're hiring!! We are looking for an excellent post-doc to come and work with us on the dynamic problem of snake bite under global change. More details. 01/04/2017 - Our newly funded MRC-GCRF snakebite under global change project kicks off today! 13/03/17 - Our new Phil Trans paper out today! Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology 28/02/2017 - Our new EFSA paper out today! Scientific and technical assistance concerning the survival, establishment and spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in the EU 01/02/17 - Goodbye Adriana Guzman-Holst! Thanks for being an awesome RA in the lab and helping to get the snake bite project off the ground 2016 08/12/2016 - We just got news of winning a grant from the MRC to work on snake bite under global change, leading on from an earlier BES seed award to build the project concept! Read more here. 14/11/2016 - New Lancet paper out today! The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change 05/10/16 - Welcome (back!) Adriana Guzman-Holst! Joining the lab as an RA to work on... snakebite! Cool. 30/09/16 - Congrats Rita on handing in your MSc thesis! What are the opportunities and barriers for implementing bottom-up climate risk management approach for building climate resilient sanitation in Maputo, Mozambique? 07/09/16 - Congrats Saoirse on handing in your MSc thesis! Co-benefits for conservation and health: quantifying and accounting for ecosystem disservices attributable to snake bite in Sri Lanka 07/09/16 - Congrats Julie on handing in your MSc thesis! The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-Use Change on Infectious Disease Emergence in Southeast Asia: Systematic Review and Policy Implications 05/09/16 - Welcome Arnaud Cartigny! Arnaud will join us from SOAS at University of London for his MSc to help develop theory and models to optimise the discovery of novel pathogens using biogeographic stratification. 30/08/16 - Congrats Adriana on handing in your MPH thesis! Infectious disease risk assessment under a changing climate: phenology modelling of environmental suitability for the disease vector Aedes aegypti in Europe 22/08/16 - PhD job ad closed! We have now identified a new team member who will take up our recently advertised PhD. Further details coming soon! Many thanks to everyone who applied, great to see so much interest in this topic. 15/06/16 - We're hiring! We are looking for a strong candidate to undertake their PhD on health and biodiversity co-benefits of environmental interventions. Go here to find out more: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education/science-and-solutions-for-a-changing-planet-dtp/studentship-opportunities/ 09/05/16 - Welcome Hank (Hanxiang) Cong, UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) student (Department of Physics, Imperial College London) 01/05/16 - Welcome to a bunch of new Masters students: Adriana Guzman-Holst (MPH, School of Public Health, Imperial College London), Julie Wendling (MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Saoirse Flood (MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College London) and Rita Sampainho (MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College London) 07/03/16 - Congratulations and welcome Paul Huxley, just awarded a prestigious Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP PhD scholarship to come and work with us on vector-borne disease risks under global change! 2015 29/12/15 - New paper (letter) out now in PNAS - Murray and Baselga 2015 Reply to Chen and Schmera: Partitioning beta diversity into replacement and nestedness-resultant components is not controversial 16/12/15 - New book chapter out now - Murray et al., 2016 Emerging Viral Zoonoses from Wildlife Associated with Animal-Based Food Systems: Risks and Opportunities 10/12/15 - New paper out now in Global Ecology and Conservation- Segan, Murray and Watson 2016- A global assessment of current and future biodiversity vulnerability to habitat loss–climate change interactions 03/12/15 - Come work with us! PhD project on vector ecology and climate change advertised - NERC DTP PhD studentship Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet 01/12/15 - New paper out now in Fungal Ecology - Berger et al., 2016 History and recent progress on chytridiomycosis in amphibians 12/11/15 - New grant awarded by the British Ecological Society! Murray (PI) "Counting public bads with the goods: resolving the socio-economic and conservation impacts of snakebite envenoming as an ecosystem disservice." 05/10/15 - Welcome new Imperial NERC-Grantham DTP PhD students Sonia Tiedt (Infectious disease biogeography) and Pria Ghosh (chytridiomycosis)! 29/09/15 - Coverage of our new paper just out in PNAS - Global biogeography of human infectious diseases. 29/09/15 - New paper out now in PNAS - Murray et al., 2015 Global biogeography of human infectious diseases 01/09/15 - New Grantham Outlook out now! 11/06/15 - Watch a video of our Mobile Pathogens in a Changing World joint Grantham-GCEE event 01/06/15 - Blog post: Environment and Health on World Environment Day 01/05/15 - New paper out now in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Langwig et al., 2015 Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases |