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Dr Belinda Barnes BSc(Hons) Grad.Dip.Appl.Comp, PhD Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 8088 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: belinda.barnes@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

The mathematical and statistical modelling of real-life systems in epidemiology and biology

• Epidemiology:

Modelling infectious diseases and the impact of control strategies on disease spread. In particular, the possible containment of an influenza pandemic considering, for example, school closures, social distancing and antiviral drug administration.

The feasibility of a local health system response to clusters of cases.

• Microbiology
  
  The spatial distribution of enriched water in leaves.
  
  Host gastro-intestinal dynamics and the frequency of antimicrobial production by Escherichia coli.
  

• Dynamical systems theory:
  
  Bifurcation structures.

Selected Recent Publications

Barnes B, Mokany K, Roderick M. Allocation within an ecological framework linking scales based on self-thinning. Ecological Modelling. In press.

Barnes B, Bi H, Roderick M. Application of an ecological framework linking scales based on self-thinning”, Ecological Applications, 2006, 16(1), 133-142.

B. Barnes, Sidhu H, Roxburgh S. A model integrating patch dynamics, competing species and the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, Ecological Modelling, 2006; 194(4): 414-420.

Roxburgh S, Berry S, Buckley T, Barnes B, Roderick M. What is NPP? Inconsistent accounting of respiratory fluxes in the definition of primary production. Functional Ecology, 2005; 19: 278-282.

Barnes B. A dynamical self-thinning approach to scaling vegetation systems. Mathematical Scientist, 2005; 30: 25-32.

Barnes B, Sidhu H. Plant-herbivore models, where more grass means fewer grazers. Bulletin for Mathematical Biology, 2005; 67(1): 33-55.

Barnes B, Gordon D. Coliform dynamics and the implications for source tracking.Environmental Microbiology, 2004; 6(5): 501-509.

BarnesB, Roderick M. An ecological framework linking scales across space and time based on self-thinning.
Theoretical Population Biology, 2004; 66: 113-128.

Roderick M, Barnes B. Self-thinning of populations from a dynamic viewpoint.Functional Ecology, 2004; 18: 197-203.

Barnes B, Farquhar G, Gan K. Modelling the isotope enrichment of leaf water. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2004; 48 (6): 672-702.