(above) Image from preprint Waning, Boosting and a Path to Endemicity for SARS-CoV-2 by Matt Keeling, Amy Thomas, Ed Hill, Robin Thompson, Louise Dyson, Michael Tildesley and Sam Moore. Read the preprint here

JUNIPER Consortium Newsletter
November 2021

Dear friends and associates of JUNIPER,

Welcome to this months edition of the JUNIPER consortium's newsletter. At the start of the month Professor Matt Keeling gave a talk on what we might expect from COVID-19 over winter as part of our monthly seminar series at the Isaac Newton Institute and it's available to watch here. There was also an exciting announcement. JUNIPER co-lead Professor Julia Gog will be joining England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam as one of the guest lecturers at this years Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Professor Julia Gog also gave the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin lecture last month, Mathematics, Pandemics and Us.

Events

JUNIPER Consortium Research Meeting

This virtual two half-day meeting will highlight the key COVID-19 related research undertaken over the past year since the consortium was created. Topics include: COVID-19 in education settings, identifying early signatures of novel variants, contact tracing and modelling of the UK roadmaps. The Early Career Researchers within the consortium will also showcase the huge breadth of research undertaken through their elevator pitch talks. Finally the two half days will end with a look at what we might expect from COVID-19 in the future with a panel discussion on this topic with the JUNIPER investigators. Please see the event page for further details.

Date: 7th Dec 09:15-13:00 & 8th Dec 14:00-17:30
Register here

WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES

We have a weekly informal seminar on Wednesdays at 16:00-17:00 GMT followed by a virtual beer hour. If you are interested in attending please sign up here. 

Recent Papers & Articles

Preprint on Waning, Boosting and a Path to Endemicity for SARS-CoV-2, by members at the University of Warwick. Read the preprint here.

Preprint on impacts of vaccination and asymptomatic testing on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in a university setting by members at the University of Bristol. Read the preprint 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, Reckoning with R: What will happen over autumn and winter? which you can read here​.

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

Upcoming events

Test, Trace and Isolate for epidemic control: lessons learnt from COVID-19 in the UK and preparing for future pandemics is a half-day virtual workshop on the afternoon of 9th December which will look at what can be learned from TTI in terms of epidemic control, TTI as part of a longer control strategy for COVID and how TTI should be planned fro future pandemics. Find out more including how to register​ here.

Optimal Vaccination Strategies is a one-day virtual workshop on 14th December which forms part of the RAMP continuity work. Find out more including how to register here. 

Thank you as always for your continued support and interest. 

- JUNIPER consortium

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(above) Image from preprint Impacts of vaccination and asymptomatic testing on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in a university setting by Nixon et al..  Read the full preprint here