(above) Picture from Plus magazine article 'R is not all you need' with JUNIPER members Julia Gog and Thomas House. See the full article here. 

JUNIPER Consortium Newsletter
May 2021

Dear friends and associates of JUNIPER,

Welcome to this months edition of the JUNIPER consortium's newsletter. Last month Dr Thomas House gave our monthly seminar on his work developing household transmission models of COVID-19 using the Office for National Statistics (ONS) COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) data. You can watch his talk here.

Events

HALF DAY RESEARCH MEETING AT ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE
Following on from the introductory research meeting in February 2021 (you can watch talks from this meeting here), this meeting will provide an update on the recent research activities of members within the consortium. It is the second in a series of JUNIPER research meetings over the coming 18 months and are a major part of the consortium's engagement with the wider epidemiological and mathematical research communities. There will therefore be time for discussion within this half-day meeting and it is hoped that the talks will spark lively discussions and potentially future collaborations. Please see the event page for further details.
Date: 17th May 9:00am-12:30pm (GMT)
Register at the bottom of the event page here.
Talks will be live streamed here.

WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES
We have a weekly informal seminar on Wednesdays at 16:00-17:00 GMT followed by a virtual beer hour. We had a recent talk by JUNIPER member Trystan Leng on LFT testing in schools and we have an upcoming talk by Chris Overton from University of Manchester on case fatality ratio estimates in care homes. If you are interested in attending please sign up here. 

Recent Papers & Articles

Correspondence in Lancet Infectious Diseases on incidence and vaccine escape from members at University of Warwick and University of Cambridge. Check out the full paper here.

Paper in PLOS Computational Biology on modelling optimal vaccination strategies in the UK from members at University of Warwick. Check out the full paper here.

Blog on Wellcome Open Research on an interview with JUNIPER member Trystan Leng about his work looking at the use of social bubbles as an effective strategy for relaxing lockdown. Check out the full post here.

We are happy to be working with Plus Magazine to bring the work from consortium members to a wider audience. Check out the full list of articles here. Recent highlights include 'Keeping up with COVID-19' and 'Will the virus escape the vaccines?'

For a full list of outputs from the consortium, check out our website here​.

Upcoming events

The Flip Side of the Pandemic: Recent Advances in the Mathematics of Information JUNIPER member Louise Dyson will be speaking at a Research Conference of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information on 20th May. Find out more and register to attend here. 

New Models of Spatial and Social Behaviour in a Pandemic two-day workshop on 26th-27th May organised as part of the RAMP continuation work. Find out more and register to attend here.

Thank you as always for your continued support and interest. 

- JUNIPER consortium

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(above) Image fromImage from preprint on Household bubbles and COVID-19 transmission. Full preprint available here