Professor Mike Boots

About me:
Broad research specialisms:

• Evolutionary ecology of infectious disease
• The evolution of immune systems
• The role of spatial structure in evolutionary dynamics
• The epidemiology of wildlife and vector-borne human disease

I examine the ecology and evolution of infectious disease by (1) building theoretical models and using experimental insect-virus systems to examine the evolutionary dynamics of host defence and parasite virulence, (2) combining models and fieldwork on human tropical disease and (3) developing models to predict the impact and spread of wildlife disease including avian malaria, and squirrel-pox virus

1993 PhD, Liverpool
1988 BSc Ecology, Leeds University

2011 Professor of Disease Biology, The University of Exeter.
2010 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellowship
2009 Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship
2007 Professor of Disease Biology, The University of Sheffield.
2004 Reader in Disease Biology, The University of Sheffield.
2001 Reader in Ecology, University of Stirling.
2000 - 2005 NERC Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow.
1998 Lecturer/Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University. Japan.
1996 European Union Science and Technology Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Theoretical Biology, Kyushu University, Japan.
1993 Royal Society/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Laboratory of Population Biology, Kyoto University, Japan.