Dr Simon Gubbins

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Epidemiology, Mathematical Biology

Simon Gubbins is group leader in Transmission Biology at The Pirbright Institute. After completing a BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London he undertook a PhD in Botanical Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge.

His main research interest is understanding the transmission of viral diseases of livestock across scales. This work explores the question of how the dynamics of viruses at one scale (for example, within an animal or within a farm) influence the dynamics at another scale (for example, between animals or between farms). A particular focus of his work is the epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease, bluetongue and African horse sickness, integrating field and laboratory data for these diseases into mathematical frameworks that can be used to inform disease control policy.

He provides regular advice to policy makers, including those in Defra, Scottish Government and the European Food Safety Authority. He was awarded the BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year award in 2013 (joint with Carrie Batten, Simon Carpenter and Peter Mertens at the Institute) for his work on the control of bluetongue.

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Pirbright’s ground-breaking research explores how pig immune system fights flu

New research giving insight into the persistence of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease virus features on front cover of Science Magazine

Landmark study by Pirbright uncovers crucial details of lumpy skin disease virus transmission by insects

Contaminated surroundings risk foot-and-mouth disease spread

Pirbright shows British sheep can be infected with two types of bluetongue simultaneously

Gubbins, S, Paton, DJ, Dekker, A, Ludi, AB, Wilsden, G, Browning, CFJ, Eschbaumer, M, Barnabei, J, Duque, H, Pauszek, LL and King, DP (2022)

Predicting cross-protection against foot-and-mouth disease virus strains by serology after vaccination

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9 , 1027006

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1027006

Bacigalupo S A, Dixon L K, Gubbins S, Kucharski A J, Drewe J A (2022)

Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission

European Journal of Wildlife Research 68 (6) , 69

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01618-2

Ludi A B, Morris A, Gubbins S, Asfor A, Afzal M, Browning C F, Grazioli S, Foglia E A, Wilsden G, Burman A, Brocchi E, Paton D J, King D P (2022)

Cross-Serotype reactivity of ELISAs used to detect antibodies to the structural proteins of foot-and-mouth disease virus

Viruses 14 (7) , 1495

Publisher’s version: https://www.doi.org/10.3390/v14071495

Perez-Martin E, Beechler B, Zhang F, Scott K, de Klerk-Lorist L-M, Limon G, Dugovich B, Gubbins S, Botha A, Hetem R, van Schalkwyk L, Juleff N, Maree F F, Jolles A, Charleston B (2022)

Viral dynamics and immune responses to foot-and-mouth disease virus in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Veterinary Research 53 (1) , 63

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-022-01076-3

Sanz-Bernardo B, Suckoo R, Haga I R, Wijesiriwardana N, Harvey A, Basu S, Larner W, Rooney S, Sy V, Langlands Z, Denison E, Sanders C, Atkinson J, Batten C, Alphey L, Darpel K E, Gubbins S, Beard P M (2022)

The acquisition and retention of lumpy skin disease virus by blood-feeding insects is influenced by the source of virus, the insect body part, and the time since feeding

Journal of Virology early view , e0075122

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00751-22

Bacigalupo S A, Chang Y-M, Dixon L K, Gubbins S, Kucharski A J, Drewe J A (2022)

The importance of fine-scale predictors of wild boar habitat use in an isolated population

Ecology and Evolution 12 (6) , e9031

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9031

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Transmission Biology

Dr Simon Gubbins

Pirbright’s ground-breaking research explores how pig immune system fights flu

New research giving insight into the persistence of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease virus features on front cover of Science Magazine

Landmark study by Pirbright uncovers crucial details of lumpy skin disease virus transmission by insects

Contaminated surroundings risk foot-and-mouth disease spread

Pirbright shows British sheep can be infected with two types of bluetongue simultaneously

Predicting cross-protection against foot-and-mouth disease virus strains by serology after vaccination

Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission

Cross-Serotype reactivity of ELISAs used to detect antibodies to the structural proteins of foot-and-mouth disease virus

Viral dynamics and immune responses to foot-and-mouth disease virus in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

The acquisition and retention of lumpy skin disease virus by blood-feeding insects is influenced by the source of virus, the insect body part, and the time since feeding

The importance of fine-scale predictors of wild boar habitat use in an isolated population

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