N. Cunniffe

A metapopulation framework integrating landscape heterogeneity to model an airborne plant pathogen: the case of brown rot of peach in France

The paper develops a metapopulation model integrating landscape factors to predict airborne pathogen spread in peach orchards, identifying high-risk areas along the Rhone Valley.

Expanding growers' choice of disease management options can promote suboptimal social outcomes

This study expands disease management options in game-theoretic models to explore how crop subsidies can influence grower behavior and promote socially-optimal outcomes during epidemics.

Modelling quantitative fungicide resistance and breakdown of resistant cultivars: designing integrated disease management strategies for Septoria of winter wheat

This paper models quantitative fungicide resistance and cultivar breakdown in wheat pathogens using field data to design sustainable disease management strategies.

Tolerant crops increase growers' yields but promote selfishness: how the epidemiology of disease resistant and tolerant varieties affect grower behaviour

The paper models how disease-resistant and tolerant crop varieties influence grower behavior and population-scale disease dynamics through strategic decision-making.

Optimal resistance management for mixtures of high-risk fungicides: robustness to the initial frequency of resistance and pathogen sexual reproduction

The paper develops a resistance management strategy for fungicide mixtures that accounts for initial resistance levels and pathogen sexual reproduction, showing it is robust to parameter changes.

Apical and basal auxin sources pattern shoot branching in a moss

This study shows that auxin biosynthesis in apical and basal regions of moss gametophores controls branch initiation and outgrowth, supporting a shared mechanism of shoot architecture regulation in land plants.

Metacommunity dynamics and the detection of species associations in co-occurrence analyses: why patch disturbance matters

This paper shows that patch disturbance in metacommunities can create false species associations in co-occurrence analyses and suggests including patch age as a covariate to address this issue.

Modelling interference between vectors of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses to identify effective control strategies

This paper models interactions between aphid vectors of non-persistently transmitted plant viruses to evaluate how agronomic practices affect disease spread.

Evolutionary epidemiology consequences of trait-dependent control of heterogeneous parasites

This study develops a model to explore how trait-dependent parasite control strategies affect disease dynamics and evolution, showing optimal treatment depends on application levels.

The MS remyelinating drug bexarotene (an RXR agonist) promotes induction of human Tregs and suppresses Th17 differentiation in vitro

This study shows bexarotene, an RXR agonist, promotes Treg induction and suppresses Th17 differentiation in human CD4 T cells, independent of tRA and RAR signaling.

Will an outbreak exceed available resources for control? Estimating the risk from invading pathogens using practical definitions of a severe epidemic

The paper estimates the risk of an outbreak exceeding available control resources by defining severe epidemics through three criteria and comparing them to standard branching process estimates.