I am a mathematical biologist and, currently, a Research Associate at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol working with Dr Nathalie Stroeymeyt on ants and social immunity. I completed my PhD in Mathematics at the University of Bath supervised by Dr Kit Yates and Prof Tim Rogers on collective cell behaviour.
I am fascinated by all sort of biological phenomena in which an organised structure emerges from a collection of simple individuals. The main focus of my research is in understanding how complex living systems appear, how they evolve and whether is possible to find some universal principles which determine their organisation.
I am particularly interested in multicellular development, collective motion and ant colonies which I consider the most incredible living system.
2020 - present
Member of the Ant Epidemiology Lab
2016 - 2020
Thesis: “Stochastic multiscale models of cell behaviour"
Advisors: Dr
Christian A. Yates and Prof. Tim Rogers
2014 - 2016
Thesis: “A condensation phenomenon in a fitness model with mutation and reinforcement”
Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Dai Pra
2011-2014
Thesis: “A dissipative non-homogeneous Curie-Weiss model”
Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Dai Pra
4. "Synchronised oscillations in growing cell populations are explained by demographic noise"
E. Gavagnin, S.T. Vittadello, G. Guanasingh, N.K. Haass, M.J. Simpson, T. Rogers, C.A. Yates. bioRxiv (2020)
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4. "The invasion speed of cell migration models with realistic cell cycle time distributions"
E. Gavagnin, M.J. Ford, R.L. Mort, T. Rogers, C.A. Yates. J. Theor. Biol. 481, pp.91-99 (2019)
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3. "Stochastic and deterministic modeling of cell migration"
E. Gavagnin, C.A. Yates. Elsevier - Handbook of Statistics, vol. 39, 37-91
(2018)
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2. "Pair correlation functions for identifying spatial correlation in discrete domains"
E. Gavagnin, J.P.Owen, C.A. Yates. Phys. Rev. E 97, 062104
(2018)
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1. "Modeling persistence of motion in a crowded environment: The diffusive limit of excluding velocity-jump processes"
E. Gavagnin, C.A. Yates. Phys. Rev. E 97, 032416
(2018)
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