Dr Robert J.H. Payne

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Admissions Tutor, Joint Honours Programme in Biology and Mathematics

School of biological Sciences (SoBS)
Bristol University

Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UG
Tel: +44 (0)117-9288254

E-mail: robert.payne@bristol.ac.uk

Funding: The Royal Society.
Publications: see below.
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Research interests

Mathematical modelling in biomedicine & cellular physiology

Theoretical evolutionary ecology & behavioural ecology


Publications

32. Payne RJH & Grierson C (2009). A theoretical model for ROP localisation by auxin in Arabidopsis root hair cells. PLoS ONE 4, e8337. 

31. Cairns BJ, Timms AR, Jansen VAA Connerton IF & Payne RJH (2009). Quantitative phage therapy and the interpretation of in vitro experiments. PLoS Pathogens 5(1), e1000253.

30. Payne RJH, Turner L & Morgan ER (2009). Inappropriate measures of population health for parasitic diseases? Trends in Parasitology 25, 393-395.

29. Paulson MA, Houston AI, McNamara JM & Payne RJH (2009). Seasonal dispersal of pests: one surge or two? J. Evol. Biol. 22, 1193-1202.

28. Cairns BJ & Payne RJH (2009). Sudden changes to rates of listeriosis in England and Wales since 2001. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15(3), 465-468.

27. Cairns BJ & Payne RJH (2008). Bacteriophage therapy and the mutant selection window. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52(12), 4344-4350. 

26. Jennings DJ, Gammell MP, Payne RJH & Hayden TJ. An investigation of assessment games during fallow deer fights. Ethology 111, 511-525 (2005).

25. Webster AJ, Payne RJH, Pagel M (2004). Response to comments on "Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation". Science 303, 5655.

24. Webster AJ, Payne RJH & Pagel M (2003). Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science 301, 478.

23. Payne RJH & Jansen VAA (2003) Pharmacokinetic principles of bacteriophage therapy. Clin. Pharmacokinetics. 42, 315-325.

22. Payne RJH & Jansen VAA (2002). Evidence for a phage proliferation threshold? J. Virol. 76, 13123.

21. Bradbury RB, Payne RJH, Wilson JD & Krebs JRK (2001). Predicting population responses to resource management.  TREE 16, 440-445.

20. Payne RJH & Pagel M (2001). Inferring the origins of state-dependent courtship traits. Am. Nat. 157, 42-50.

19. Payne RJH & Jansen VAA (2001). Understanding bacteriophage therapy as a density-dependent kinetic process. J. theor. Biol. 208, 37-48.

18. Payne RJH & Krakauer DC (2000). Disruptive sexual selection (letter to editor). TREE 15, 419-420.

17. Payne RJH & Jansen VAA. (2000). Phage therapy: The peculiar kinetics of self-replicating pharmaceuticals. Clin. Pharmacol.& Therap. 68, 225-230.

16. Payne RJH & Wilson JD (1999). Resource limitation in stochastic seasonal environments. Oikos 87, 303-314.

15. Payne RJH & Krakauer DC. (1998). The spatial dynamics of prion disease. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B  265, 2341-2346.

14. Payne RJH & Rodríguez-Gironés MA. (1998). The origins of parent-offspring signalling. J. theor. Biol.  195, 273-279.

13. Payne RJH (1998). Gradually escalating fights and displays: the cumulative assessment model. Anim. Behav.  56, 651-662.

12. Payne RJH & Krakauer DC (1998). The paradoxical dynamics of prion disease latency. J. theor Biol.  191, 345-352.

11. Krakauer DC & Payne RJH (1997). The evolution of virus-induced apoptosis. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B  264, 1757-1762.

10. Ebert D, Payne RJH & Weisser WW. The epidemiology of parasitic diseases in Daphnia. In: Vertical Food Web Interactions: Evolutionary Patterns and Driving Forces. (Eds Dettner K, Bauer G & Völkl W). Springer (Ecological Studies vol 130), 1997. 

9. Payne RJH & Pagel M (1997). Why do animals repeat displays? Anim. Behav.  54, 109-119.

8. Payne RJH (1997). On the robustness of populations in changing environments. J. theor. Biol. 185, 553-555.

7. Payne RJH & Krakauer DC (1997). Sexual selection, space and speciation. Evolution. 51, 1-9.

6. Payne RJH & Pagel M (1996). When is false modesty a false economy? An optimality model of escalating signals. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B  263, 1545-1550.

5. Payne RJH & Pagel M (1996). Escalation and time costs in displays of endurance. J. theor. Biol. 183, 185-193.

4. Pagel M & Payne RJH (1996). How migration affects estimation of the extinction threshold. Oikos  76, 323-329.

3. Payne RJH, Nowak MA & Blumberg BS (1996). The dynamics of hepatitis B virus infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93, 6542-6546.

2. Payne RJH, Nowak MA & Blumberg BS (1994). A cellular model to explain the pathogenesis of infection by the hepatitis B virus. Math. Biosci. 123, 25-58.

1. Payne RJH, Nowak MA & Blumberg BS (1992). Analysis of a cellular model to account for the natural history of infection by the hepatitis B virus and its role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. J. theor. Biol. 159, 215-240.