Institute: University of Strathclyde
Biography
Gabriela Gomes is a Reader in Biomathematics at University of Strathclyde. She is interested in the evaluation of vaccines, symbionts and other interventions in heterogeneous populations. She collaborates with evolutionary biologists, immunologists, entomologists and clinical scientists, in the optimization of experimental designs for quantifying distributions of intervention effects with high resolution. She works on a range of host-pathogens systems, with hosts spanning from invertebrates to fish and humans.
She studied mathematics at the Universities of Porto (Portugal) and Warwick (UK), and started conducting population biology research as a Wellcome Research Training Fellow in Mathematical Biology (1999-2002). She led an independent group at the Gulbenkian Science Institute (Portugal, 2002-2014) and joined LSTM in 2015.
Current research interests: Dose-response experimental challenge designs; Distributions of host susceptibility to pathogens; Distributions of vaccine efficacy against pathogens; Distributions of microbial symbiont effects on pathogen infections; Maintenance of biodiversity in microbial communities.
Key Publications
A list of publications can be found here.
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