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

Kemp L, Aldridge D C, Booy O, Bower H, Browne D, Burgmann M, Burt A, Cunningham A A, Dando M, Dick J T A, Dye C, Weiss Evans S, Gallardo B, Godfray H C J, Goodfellow I, Gubbins S, Holt L A, Jones K E, Kandil H, Martin P, McCaughan M, McLeish C, Meany T, Millett K, OhEigeartaigh S S, Patron N J, Rhodes C, Roy H E, Shackelford G, Smith D, Spence N, Steiner H, Sundaram L S, Voeneky S, Walker J R, Watkins H, Whitby S, Wood J, Sutherland W J (2021)

80 questions for UK biological security

PLoS One 16 (1) , e0241190

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241190

Tugwell L A, England M E, Gubbins S, Sanders C J, Stokes J E, Stoner J, Graham S P, Blackwell A, Darpel K E, Carpenter S (2021)

Thermal limits for flight activity of field-collected Culicoides in the United Kingdom defined under laboratory conditions

Parasites and Vectors 14 (1) , 55

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04552-x

Bacigalupo S A, Dixon L K, Gubbins S, Kucharski A J, Drewe J A (2020)

Towards a unified generic framework to define and observe contacts between livestock and wildlife: a systematic review

PeerJ 8 , e10221

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10221

Sanz-Bernardo B, Haga I R, Wijesiriwardana N, Basu S, Larner W, Diaz A V, Langlands Z, Denison E, Stoner J, White M, Sanders C, Hawes P C, Wilson A J, Atkinson J, Batten C, Alphey L, Darpel K E, Gubbins S, Beard P M (2021)

Quantifying and modelling the acquisition and retention of lumpy skin disease virus by haematophagus insects reveals clinically but not subclinically-affected cattle are promoters of viral transmission and key targets for control of disease outbreaks

Journal of Virology 95 (9) , e02239-20

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02239-20

Grace K E F, Papadopoulou C, Floyd T, Avigad R, Collins S, White E, Batten C, Flannery J, Gubbins S, Carpenter S T (2020)

Risk-based surveillance for bluetongue virus in cattle on the south coast of England in 2017 and 2018

Vet Record 187 (11) , e96

Publisher’s version: https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.106016

Colenutt C, Brown E, Nelson N, Paton D J, Eblé P, Dekker A, Gonzales J L, Gubbins S (2020)

Quantifying the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle via a contaminated environment

mBio 11 (4) , e00381-20

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00381-20

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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

80 questions for UK biological security

Thermal limits for flight activity of field-collected Culicoides in the United Kingdom defined under laboratory conditions

Towards a unified generic framework to define and observe contacts between livestock and wildlife: a systematic review

Quantifying and modelling the acquisition and retention of lumpy skin disease virus by haematophagus insects reveals clinically but not subclinically-affected cattle are promoters of viral transmission and key targets for control of disease outbreaks

Risk-based surveillance for bluetongue virus in cattle on the south coast of England in 2017 and 2018

Quantifying the transmission of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle via a contaminated environment

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