Dr Roberto Saenz

Career

2006-present BBSRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

2003-2006 PhD student, teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, USA

2001-2003 MS student, teaching assistant, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Research

Roberto Saenz is part of the infectious diseases dynamics group. His overall goal is to use mathematics as a tool to understand and solve problems related to infectious diseases. His current research is on mathematical models for the spread of the influenza virus within an infected host. The effect of innate immunity, adaptive immunity, spatial infection distribution, etc. are being evaluated as control mechanisms of infection.

Selected Publications

• RA Saenz, JR Gog, BT Grenfell, J Wood, J McCauley, D Elton, et al, Dynamics of primary infection in equine influenza: the relative roles of innate immunity and target-cell depletion (in preparation).
• RA Saenz, A mathematical model for the interaction of red and grey squirrels (in preparation).
• RA Saenz, HW Hethcote, GC Gray, Confined animal feeding operations as amplifiers of influenza, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 6 (2006) 338-346.
• RA Saenz and HW Hethcote, Competing species models with an infectious disease, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 3 (2006) 219-235.
• A-A Yakubu, R Saenz, J Stein, LE Jones, Monarch butterfly spatially discrete advection model, Mathematical Biosciences 190 (2004) 183-202.