Ben Adams
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Deparment of Biology
Kyushu University
Fukuoka
Japan 812-8581
ben at bio-math10.biology.kyushu-u.ac.jp

in kyoto

A History

A pure mathematician learning about groups and rings and fields and topological spaces BSc. There are some beautiful things in that world. A gardener, digging and cutting and planting and growing. There are some beautiful things in this world. As an idle mind wanders a tired body follows. Mathematical biology MSc. Earth system modelling with A White and T Lenton PhD. Shuffle sideways. A year of epidemiological models with M Boots , thanks to Wellcome. A hovel in Switzerland. More epidemiology in Japan with A Sasaki, thanks to JSPS. Whatever next?

Current Research

Cross-immunity, seasonal forcing and resonance in epidemic models. Dengue virus particularly interesing as antibodies may enhance not prevent future infection. How should this be modelled? Does it really have a significant impact on the epidemiology? How does cross-reaction influence the frequency of epidemics? And the phase pattern? How does cross-immunity influence the evolution of pathogens? How will the pathogen population be structured? Epidemic models, host-pathogen systems - populations dynamics dressed in a white coat. Corroded pure math neurons still remember the isomorphism, evey answer contains more than one question and even an occupied mind wanders.

Publications

  • Adams, B., Holmes, E. C., Zhang, C., Mammen, M. P., Nimmannitya, S., Kalayanarooj and Boots, M. (2006) Cross-protective immunity can account for the alternating epidemic pattern of dengue virus serotypes circulating in Bangkok. PNAS, 103:14234-14239.[pdf]

  • Adams, B. and Boots, M. (2006) Modelling the relationship between antibody-dependent enhancement and immunological distance with application to dengue.Journal of Theoretical Biology 242:337-346. [pdf]

  • Williamson, M., Lenton, T. M., Adams, B., Shepherd, J., Yool, A. and Marsh, B. (2004). A simple coupled terrestrial carbon-physics land scheme for use in a closed carbon cycle climate model of intermediate complexity. Southampton Oceanography Centre Internal Report. No. 96. [pdf]

  • Adams, B., White, A. and Lenton, T. M. (2004). An analysis of some diverse approaches to modelling terrestrial net primary productivity. Ecological Modelling 177:352-391. [pdf]

  • Adams, B. and Carr, J. (2003). Spatial pattern formation in a model of vegetation-climate feedback. Nonlinearity 16:1339-1357. [pdf]

  • Adams, B., Carr, J., Lenton, T. M. and White, A. (2003).One dimensional daisyworld: spatial interactions and pattern formation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 223:505-513. [pdf]

    Submitted

  • Adams, B., Sasaki, A. and Boots, M. The influence of immune cross-reaction on phase structure in resonant solutions of a multi-strain seasonal SIR model.

  • Adams, B and Sasaki, A. The influence of cross-immunity on the coexistence, invasion and evolution of pathogen strains.