Dr Mafalda Viana
- Senior Research Fellow (Infectious Disease Ecology)
email:
Mafalda.Viana@glasgow.ac.uk
Graham Kerr Building
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-6505Research interests
Pathogens don’t live in a vacuum; they interact with their hosts, complex communities of other pathogens within their hosts, and with the environment. My research aims to identify the best disease management strategies to employ across these varying contexts using both statistical and theoretical approaches. I am also interested in most areas in ecology, but I particularly enjoy confronting models with large datasets because the knowledge gained and consequent impacts can be so high.
Further Information - http://mafaldaviana.wordpress.com/
Research groups
Publications
2024
Damdinjav, B. et al. (2024) Evidence of H5N1 influenza spillover infections in horses in Mongolia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, (Accepted for Publication)
Dennis, T. P.W., Essandoh, J., Mable, B. K. , Viana, M. S. , Yawson, A. E. and Weetman, D. (2024) Signatures of adaptation at key insecticide resistance loci in Anopheles gambiae in Southern Ghana revealed by reduced-coverage WGS. Scientific Reports, 14, 8650. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58906-x) (PMID:38622230) (PMCID:PMC11018624)
2023
Sare, I., Baldini, F. , Viana, M. , Badolo, A., Djigma, F., Diabate, A. and Bilgo, E. (2023) Adhesion and virulence properties of native Metarhizium fungal strains from Burkina Faso for the control of malaria vectors. Parasites and Vectors, 16, 406. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-05831-z)
Viana, M. et al. (2023) Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus. Science Advances, 9(10), eadd7437. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7437) (PMID:36897949) (PMCID:PMC10005164)
Manali, M. et al. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 evolution and patient immunological history shape the breadth and potency of antibody-mediated immunity. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227(1), pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac332) (PMID:35920058) (PMCID:PMC9384671)
Baldini, F. and Viana, M. (2023) Dried out but alive: how mosquitoes survive 8 months. Trends in Parasitology, 39(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.11.006) (PMID:36470782)
2022
Ouédraogo, W. M., Toé, K. H., Sombié, A., Viana, M. , Bougouma, C., Sanon, A., Weetman, D., McCall, P. J., Kanuka, H. and Badolo, A. (2022) Impact of physicochemical parameters of Aedes aegypti breeding habitats on mosquito productivity and the size of emerged adult mosquitoes in Ouagadougou City, Burkina Faso. Parasites and Vectors, 15, 478. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05558-3) (PMID:36539816) (PMCID:PMC9768987)
Meza, D. K. et al. (2022) Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 289(1982), 20220860. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0860) (PMID:36069012) (PMCID:PMC9449476)
Toé, H. K., Zongo, S., Guelbeogo, M. W., Kamgang, B., Viana, M. , Tapsoba, M., Sanou, A., Traoré, A., McCall, P. J. and Sagnon, N.'F. (2022) Multiple insecticide resistance and first evidence of V410L kdr mutation in Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) from Burkina Faso. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 36(3), pp. 309-319. (doi: 10.1111/mve.12602) (PMID:35869781)
Badolo, A. et al. (2022) First comprehensive analysis of Aedes aegypti bionomics during an arbovirus outbreak in west Africa: dengue in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2016-2017. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(7), e0010059. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010059) (PMID:35793379) (PMCID:PMC9321428)
2021
Meza, D. K. , Broos, A. , Becker, D. J., Behdenna, A., Willett, B. J. , Viana, M. and Streicker, D. G. (2021) Predicting the presence and titre of rabies virus‐neutralizing antibodies from low‐volume serum samples in low‐containment facilities. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(3), pp. 1564-1576. (doi: 10.1111/tbed.13826) (PMID:32931658)
Hughes, E. C. et al. (2021) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 serosurveillance in a patient population reveals differences in virus exposure and antibody-mediated immunity according to host demography and healthcare setting. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 223(6), pp. 971-980. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa788) (PMID:33367847) (PMCID:PMC7798933)
Millins, C. et al. (2021) Emergence of Lyme disease on treeless islands in Scotland, UK. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(2), pp. 538-546. (doi: 10.3201/eid2702.203862) (PMID:33496237) (PMCID:PMC7853560)
2020
Kreppel, K.S., Viana, M. , Main, B.J., Johnson, P.C.D. , Govella, N.J., Lee, Y., Maliti, D., Meza, F.C., Lanzaro, G.C. and Ferguson, H.M. (2020) Emergence of behavioural avoidance strategies of malaria vectors in areas of high LLIN coverage in Tanzania. Scientific Reports, 10, 14527. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71187-4) (PMID:32883976) (PMCID:PMC7471940)
Hughes, A., Lissenden, N., Viana, M. , Toé, K. H. and Ranson, H. (2020) Anopheles gambiae populations from Burkina Faso show minimal delayed mortality after exposure to insecticide-treated nets. Parasites and Vectors, 13(1), 17. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3872-2) (PMID:31924276) (PMCID:PMC6954553)
2019
González Jiménez, M. et al. (2019) Prediction of mosquito species and population age structure using mid-infrared spectroscopy and supervised machine learning. Wellcome Open Research, 4, 76. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15201.3) (PMID:31544155) (PMCID:PMC6753605)
Traore, A. et al. (2019) Anopheline species composition and the 1014F-genotype in different ecological settings of Burkina Faso in relation to malaria transmission. Malaria Journal, 18, 165. (doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2789-8) (PMID:31068189) (PMCID:PMC6507147)
Behdenna, A. et al. (2019) Transmission ecology of canine parvovirus in a multi-host, multi-pathogen system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 286, 20182772. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2772) (PMID:30914008) (PMCID:PMC6452066)
2018
Ng'habi, K., Viana, M. , Matthiopoulos, J. , Lyimo, I., Killeen, G. and Ferguson, H. M. (2018) Mesocosm experiments reveal the impact of mosquito control measures on malaria vector life history and population dynamics. Scientific Reports, 8, 13949. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31805-8) (PMID:30224714) (PMCID:PMC6141522)
Cross, P. C., van Manen, F. T., Viana, M. , Almberg, E. S., Bachen, D., Brandell, E. E., Haroldson, M. A., Hudson, P. J., Stahler, D. R. and Smith, D. W. (2018) Estimating distemper virus dynamics among wolves and grizzly bears using serology and Bayesian state‐space models. Ecology and Evolution, 8(17), pp. 8726-8735. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.4396) (PMID:30271540) (PMCID:PMC6157674)
Viana, M. , Faust, C. L. , Haydon, D. T. , Webster, J. P. and Lamberton, P. H.L. (2018) The effects of subcurative praziquantel treatment on life-history traits and trade-offs in drug-resistant Schistosoma mansoni. Evolutionary Applications, 11(4), pp. 488-500. (doi: 10.1111/eva.12558) (PMID:29636801) (PMCID:PMC5891057)
2016
Viana, M. , Shirima, G. M., John, K. S., Fitzpatrick, J., Kazwala, R. R., Buza, J. J., Cleaveland, S. , Haydon, D. T. and Halliday, J. (2016) Integrating serological and genetic data to quantify cross-species transmission: brucellosis as a case study. Parasitology, 143(7), pp. 821-834. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016000044) (PMID:26935267) (PMCID:PMC4873909)
Viana, M. , Hughes, A., Matthiopoulos, J. , Ranson, H. and Ferguson, H. M. (2016) Delayed mortality effects cut the malaria transmission potential of insecticide resistant mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(32), pp. 8975-8980. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603431113) (PMID:27402740)
2015
García Molinos, J., Viana, M. , Brennan, M. and Donohue, I. (2015) Importance of long-term cycles for predicting water level dynamics in natural lakes. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0119253. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119253) (PMID:25757071) (PMCID:PMC4355075)
Viana, M. et al. (2015) Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic-wildlife interface: Canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(5), pp. 1464-1469. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411623112) (PMID:25605919) (PMCID:PMC4321234)
2014
Viana, M. , Mancy, R. , Biek, R. , Cleaveland, S. , Cross, P. C., Lloyd-Smith, J. O. and Haydon, D. T. (2014) Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(5), pp. 270-279. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.002) (PMID:24726345) (PMCID:PMC4007595)
McNally, L., Viana, M. and Brown, S. P. (2014) Cooperative secretions facilitate host range expansion in bacteria. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5594)
2013
Viana, M. , McNally, L., Graham, N., Reid, D. G. and Jackson, A. L. (2013) Ignoring discards biases the assessment of fisheries' ecological fingerprint. Biology Letters, 9(6), 20130812. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0812) (PMID:24307530) (PMCID:PMC3871369)
Viana, M. , Jackson, A. L., Graham, N. and Parnell, A. C. (2013) Disentangling spatio-temporal processes in a hierarchical system: a case study in fisheries discards. Ecography, 36(5), pp. 569-578. (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07853.x)
Donohue, I. et al. (2013) On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters, 16(4), pp. 421-429. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12086) (PMID:23419041)
2011
Viana, M. , Graham, N., Wilson, J. G. and Jackson, A. L. (2011) Fishery discards in the Irish Sea exhibit temporal oscillations and trends reflecting underlying processes at an annual scale. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(1), pp. 221-227. (doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq160)
2009
Viana, M. , Pierce, G. J., Illian, J. , MacLeod, C. D., Bailey, N., Wang, J. and Hastie, L. C. (2009) Seasonal movements of veined squid Loligo forbesiin Scottish (UK) waters. Aquatic Living Resources, 22(3), pp. 291-305. (doi: 10.1051/alr/2009026)
Hastie, L., Pierce, G., Pita, C., Viana, M. , Smith, J. and Wangvoralak, S. (2009) Squid Fishing in UK Waters: A Report to SEAFISH Industry Authority. Project Report. University of Aberdeen.
2008
Pierce, G. J. et al. (2008) A review of cephalopod–environment interactions in European Seas. Hydrobiologia, 612(1), pp. 49-70. (doi: 10.1007/s10750-008-9489-7)
Articles
Damdinjav, B. et al. (2024) Evidence of H5N1 influenza spillover infections in horses in Mongolia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, (Accepted for Publication)
Dennis, T. P.W., Essandoh, J., Mable, B. K. , Viana, M. S. , Yawson, A. E. and Weetman, D. (2024) Signatures of adaptation at key insecticide resistance loci in Anopheles gambiae in Southern Ghana revealed by reduced-coverage WGS. Scientific Reports, 14, 8650. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58906-x) (PMID:38622230) (PMCID:PMC11018624)
Sare, I., Baldini, F. , Viana, M. , Badolo, A., Djigma, F., Diabate, A. and Bilgo, E. (2023) Adhesion and virulence properties of native Metarhizium fungal strains from Burkina Faso for the control of malaria vectors. Parasites and Vectors, 16, 406. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-05831-z)
Viana, M. et al. (2023) Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus. Science Advances, 9(10), eadd7437. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7437) (PMID:36897949) (PMCID:PMC10005164)
Manali, M. et al. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 evolution and patient immunological history shape the breadth and potency of antibody-mediated immunity. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227(1), pp. 40-49. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac332) (PMID:35920058) (PMCID:PMC9384671)
Baldini, F. and Viana, M. (2023) Dried out but alive: how mosquitoes survive 8 months. Trends in Parasitology, 39(1), pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.11.006) (PMID:36470782)
Ouédraogo, W. M., Toé, K. H., Sombié, A., Viana, M. , Bougouma, C., Sanon, A., Weetman, D., McCall, P. J., Kanuka, H. and Badolo, A. (2022) Impact of physicochemical parameters of Aedes aegypti breeding habitats on mosquito productivity and the size of emerged adult mosquitoes in Ouagadougou City, Burkina Faso. Parasites and Vectors, 15, 478. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-022-05558-3) (PMID:36539816) (PMCID:PMC9768987)
Meza, D. K. et al. (2022) Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 289(1982), 20220860. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0860) (PMID:36069012) (PMCID:PMC9449476)
Toé, H. K., Zongo, S., Guelbeogo, M. W., Kamgang, B., Viana, M. , Tapsoba, M., Sanou, A., Traoré, A., McCall, P. J. and Sagnon, N.'F. (2022) Multiple insecticide resistance and first evidence of V410L kdr mutation in Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) from Burkina Faso. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 36(3), pp. 309-319. (doi: 10.1111/mve.12602) (PMID:35869781)
Badolo, A. et al. (2022) First comprehensive analysis of Aedes aegypti bionomics during an arbovirus outbreak in west Africa: dengue in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2016-2017. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(7), e0010059. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010059) (PMID:35793379) (PMCID:PMC9321428)
Meza, D. K. , Broos, A. , Becker, D. J., Behdenna, A., Willett, B. J. , Viana, M. and Streicker, D. G. (2021) Predicting the presence and titre of rabies virus‐neutralizing antibodies from low‐volume serum samples in low‐containment facilities. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(3), pp. 1564-1576. (doi: 10.1111/tbed.13826) (PMID:32931658)
Hughes, E. C. et al. (2021) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 serosurveillance in a patient population reveals differences in virus exposure and antibody-mediated immunity according to host demography and healthcare setting. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 223(6), pp. 971-980. (doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa788) (PMID:33367847) (PMCID:PMC7798933)
Millins, C. et al. (2021) Emergence of Lyme disease on treeless islands in Scotland, UK. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(2), pp. 538-546. (doi: 10.3201/eid2702.203862) (PMID:33496237) (PMCID:PMC7853560)
Kreppel, K.S., Viana, M. , Main, B.J., Johnson, P.C.D. , Govella, N.J., Lee, Y., Maliti, D., Meza, F.C., Lanzaro, G.C. and Ferguson, H.M. (2020) Emergence of behavioural avoidance strategies of malaria vectors in areas of high LLIN coverage in Tanzania. Scientific Reports, 10, 14527. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71187-4) (PMID:32883976) (PMCID:PMC7471940)
Hughes, A., Lissenden, N., Viana, M. , Toé, K. H. and Ranson, H. (2020) Anopheles gambiae populations from Burkina Faso show minimal delayed mortality after exposure to insecticide-treated nets. Parasites and Vectors, 13(1), 17. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3872-2) (PMID:31924276) (PMCID:PMC6954553)
González Jiménez, M. et al. (2019) Prediction of mosquito species and population age structure using mid-infrared spectroscopy and supervised machine learning. Wellcome Open Research, 4, 76. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15201.3) (PMID:31544155) (PMCID:PMC6753605)
Traore, A. et al. (2019) Anopheline species composition and the 1014F-genotype in different ecological settings of Burkina Faso in relation to malaria transmission. Malaria Journal, 18, 165. (doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2789-8) (PMID:31068189) (PMCID:PMC6507147)
Behdenna, A. et al. (2019) Transmission ecology of canine parvovirus in a multi-host, multi-pathogen system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 286, 20182772. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2772) (PMID:30914008) (PMCID:PMC6452066)
Ng'habi, K., Viana, M. , Matthiopoulos, J. , Lyimo, I., Killeen, G. and Ferguson, H. M. (2018) Mesocosm experiments reveal the impact of mosquito control measures on malaria vector life history and population dynamics. Scientific Reports, 8, 13949. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31805-8) (PMID:30224714) (PMCID:PMC6141522)
Cross, P. C., van Manen, F. T., Viana, M. , Almberg, E. S., Bachen, D., Brandell, E. E., Haroldson, M. A., Hudson, P. J., Stahler, D. R. and Smith, D. W. (2018) Estimating distemper virus dynamics among wolves and grizzly bears using serology and Bayesian state‐space models. Ecology and Evolution, 8(17), pp. 8726-8735. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.4396) (PMID:30271540) (PMCID:PMC6157674)
Viana, M. , Faust, C. L. , Haydon, D. T. , Webster, J. P. and Lamberton, P. H.L. (2018) The effects of subcurative praziquantel treatment on life-history traits and trade-offs in drug-resistant Schistosoma mansoni. Evolutionary Applications, 11(4), pp. 488-500. (doi: 10.1111/eva.12558) (PMID:29636801) (PMCID:PMC5891057)
Viana, M. , Shirima, G. M., John, K. S., Fitzpatrick, J., Kazwala, R. R., Buza, J. J., Cleaveland, S. , Haydon, D. T. and Halliday, J. (2016) Integrating serological and genetic data to quantify cross-species transmission: brucellosis as a case study. Parasitology, 143(7), pp. 821-834. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016000044) (PMID:26935267) (PMCID:PMC4873909)
Viana, M. , Hughes, A., Matthiopoulos, J. , Ranson, H. and Ferguson, H. M. (2016) Delayed mortality effects cut the malaria transmission potential of insecticide resistant mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(32), pp. 8975-8980. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603431113) (PMID:27402740)
García Molinos, J., Viana, M. , Brennan, M. and Donohue, I. (2015) Importance of long-term cycles for predicting water level dynamics in natural lakes. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0119253. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119253) (PMID:25757071) (PMCID:PMC4355075)
Viana, M. et al. (2015) Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic-wildlife interface: Canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(5), pp. 1464-1469. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411623112) (PMID:25605919) (PMCID:PMC4321234)
Viana, M. , Mancy, R. , Biek, R. , Cleaveland, S. , Cross, P. C., Lloyd-Smith, J. O. and Haydon, D. T. (2014) Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(5), pp. 270-279. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.002) (PMID:24726345) (PMCID:PMC4007595)
McNally, L., Viana, M. and Brown, S. P. (2014) Cooperative secretions facilitate host range expansion in bacteria. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5594)
Viana, M. , McNally, L., Graham, N., Reid, D. G. and Jackson, A. L. (2013) Ignoring discards biases the assessment of fisheries' ecological fingerprint. Biology Letters, 9(6), 20130812. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0812) (PMID:24307530) (PMCID:PMC3871369)
Viana, M. , Jackson, A. L., Graham, N. and Parnell, A. C. (2013) Disentangling spatio-temporal processes in a hierarchical system: a case study in fisheries discards. Ecography, 36(5), pp. 569-578. (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07853.x)
Donohue, I. et al. (2013) On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters, 16(4), pp. 421-429. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12086) (PMID:23419041)
Viana, M. , Graham, N., Wilson, J. G. and Jackson, A. L. (2011) Fishery discards in the Irish Sea exhibit temporal oscillations and trends reflecting underlying processes at an annual scale. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(1), pp. 221-227. (doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq160)
Viana, M. , Pierce, G. J., Illian, J. , MacLeod, C. D., Bailey, N., Wang, J. and Hastie, L. C. (2009) Seasonal movements of veined squid Loligo forbesiin Scottish (UK) waters. Aquatic Living Resources, 22(3), pp. 291-305. (doi: 10.1051/alr/2009026)
Pierce, G. J. et al. (2008) A review of cephalopod–environment interactions in European Seas. Hydrobiologia, 612(1), pp. 49-70. (doi: 10.1007/s10750-008-9489-7)
Research Reports or Papers
Hastie, L., Pierce, G., Pita, C., Viana, M. , Smith, J. and Wangvoralak, S. (2009) Squid Fishing in UK Waters: A Report to SEAFISH Industry Authority. Project Report. University of Aberdeen.
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Learning to Eliminate Dominant Malaria Vectors
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2023 - 2026
- Contribution of introduced species to multi-host epidemiological dynamics
The Royal Society
2022 - 2024
- Towards malaria elimination: destabilizing shrinking mosquito populations
European Research Council
2020 - 2025
- Brucellosis in Kenya - Modelling Transmission & Interventions Across Systems
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2018 - 2019
- Ecology of insecticide resistant vectors: consequences for the effectiveness of malaria control strategies
Medical Research Council
2016 - 2019
- From observation to intervention: overcoming weak data with new approaches to complex biological problems
Leverhulme Trust
2016 - 2019
Supervision
- Arme, Thomas
NA - Bissett, Laura
Disentangling environmental and anthropogenic impacts on malaria vector population structure and community - Johnston, Erin
Xenosurveillance of Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia and the Philippines - Kipingu, Andrea
Modelling to optimize malaria vector control at low mosquito population densities
Research datasets
2018
Gonzalez Jimenez, M. , Babayan, S. , Khazaeli, P., Doyle, M., Walton, F., Reedy, E., Glew, T., Viana, M. , Ranford-Cartwright, L. , Niang, A., Siria, D. J., Okumu, F., Diabaté, A., Ferguson, H. , Baldini, F. and Wynne, K. (2018) Prediction of malaria mosquito species and population age structure using mid-infrared spectroscopy and supervised machine learning. [Data Collection]
