List of publications

 

Articles online:

 

2002-2006:


On the role of social clusters in the transmission of infectious diseases. Theoretical Population Biology, 61 (2002),163-169. PDF

On the role of reinfection in the transmission of infectious diseases. Journal of  Theoretical Biology, 225 (2003) 59-63. PDF

Can HIV invade a population  that is already sick? Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 34 (2003) 1-10. PDF.

Coexistence results for a  spatial stochastic epidemic model, with Norio Konno and Hideki Tanemura. Markov processes and related fields, 10 (2004),367-376. PDF.


Mass extinctions: an alternative to the Allee effect.  Annals of Applied Probability 15 (2005), 984-991. PDF


A note on branching random walks on finite sets , with Tom Mountford. Journal of Applied Probability 42 (2005), 287-294. PDF

The probability of treatment induced drug resistance. Acta Biotheoretica, 54, 2006, 13-19 PDF

Chapter entitled "Interacting particle systems in population biology" in the book "Mathematical and computational methods in biology", A. Maass, A. Martinez, E.Pecou editors, (2006) Hermann, Paris.PDF

A stochastic model for cancer risk. Genetics, 174 (2006), 545-547.PDF

 

2007-2010:

A contact process with mutations on a tree, with T.M. Liggett and J. Schweinsberg. Stochastic Processes and their applications 118 (2008), 319-332. PDF

A spatial stochastic model for virus dynamics. Journal of Statistical Physics, 128 (2007), 771-779. PDF

Spatial and non spatial stochastic models for immune response (with Jason Schweinsberg). Markov Processes and Related Fields 14, 2008, 255-276. .PDF

On the role of social aggregation in the extinction of a species. Progress in Probability 60 (2008),

V. Sidoravicius and M.E. Vares Editors, Birkhauser. PDF

Survival and existence for a multitype contact process, with J.T. Cox. Annals of probability 37 (2009), 853-876 . PDF

Will the announced influenza pandemic really happen? PDF

The age incidence for any cancer can be explained by a one mutation model. PDF

A stochastic model for phylogenetic trees, with T. Liggett. Journal of Applied Probability 46 (2009), 601-607 . PDF

Contact process in a wedge, with Ted Cox and Nevena Maric. Journal of Statistical Physics 139 (2010), 506-517. PDF

 

2011-present:

Strength in numbers? Not always! Physica A 390 (2011) 1737-1740 PDF

A stochastic model of evolution, with Herve Guiol and Fabio Machado. Markov Processes Relat. Fields 17, 253–258 (2011) PDF

Modeling competition between two influenza strains. PDF

A spatial stochastic model for rumor transmission (with Cristian F. Coletti, Pablo M. Rodriguez) Journal of statistical physics (2012) arXiv:1202.4019

Bacterial persistence: a winning strategy? (with Olivier Garet, Regine Marchand) To appear in Markov Processes and Related Fields (2012) arXiv:1109.5132

A Branching Process for Virus Survival  (with J. Theodore Cox) To appear in Journal of Applied Probability (2012)  arXiv:1109.5124

On a link between a species survival time in an evolution model and the Bessel distributions (with Herve Guiol and Fabio P. Machado) To appear in Brazilan Journal of  Probability and Statistics (2012). arXiv:1102.2817