The overall aim of our research is to understand how individual-level host heterogeneity scales up to population level disease outcomes.

Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an established model of infection, immunity and behaviour, we take an experimental approach to investigate the causes of individual heterogeneity in immune responses, life-history traits and social behaviours and the consequences of heterogeneity for how pathogens might spread and evolve. Click on the panels below to learn more about ongoing work.