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Field of study
Theoretical ecology, infectious disease ecology and evolution, mathematical and computational modelling.
Research interests
My work focuses on the links between ecosystem complexity and infectious diseases dynamics and evolution. I am developing a general framework to link, in time and space, theory of community ecology and infectious disease dynamics. My favorite biological models are avian influenza, West Nile virus and Mycobacterium ulcerans.
Publications
Roche, B., C. Lebarbenchon, M. Gauthier-Clerc, C.M. Chang, F. Thomas, F. Renaud, S. van der Werf and J.F. Guégan. 2009. Water-borne transmission drives avian influenza dynamics in wild birds: the case of the 2005-2006 epidemics in the Camargue area. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 9:800-805.
Roche B., J.F. Guégan, F. Bousquet. 2008. Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: A first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission. BMC BioInformatics. 9:435
Lefèvre T., B. Roche, R. Poulin, H. Hurd, F. Renaud and F. Thomas F. 2008. Exploiting host compensatory responses: The must of manipulation. Trends in Parasitology. 24(10):435-439
Lebarbenchon C., S. Van Der Werf, F. Thomas, J.T. Aubin, S. Azebi, F. Cuvelier, P. Jeannin, V. Roca, C.M. Chang, Y. Kayser, B. Roche, J.F. Guégan, F. Renaud, M. Gauthier-Clerc. 2007. Absence of detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 in migratory waterfowl in southern France in 2005-2006. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 7(5): 604-608.
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