Lulla Opatowski is professor in Mathematical Epidemiology (University of Versailles Saint Quentin – UVSQ). Her main research interests are in mathematical modelling of infectious disease and statistical inference, with a particular interest in bacterial resistance to antimicrobials (including antibiotics and vaccines) and host-pathogen-pathogen interactions. Her main projects include:
- SARS-COV-2, MOD-COV: We currently participate to the modelling effort on COVID and in particular study the risk of transmission of the virus in health care settings within patients and health care workers
- RESPIMOD: Modelling between-pathogen interactions within the respiratory tract, in particular virus-virus and virus-bacteria interactions, such as those between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses.
- Microbiome: Building models to study the factors leading to the acquisition of antibiotic resistant bacteria and the development of gut microbiota.
- Nosocomial infections: modelling analysis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals. This includes both theoretical models and the analysis of strains transmission routes from detailed proximity contact data and colonisation of S. aureus and Enterobacteriaceae (I-BIRD study, Individual Based Investigation of Resistant bacteria Dissemination in hospitals)
- Study of multi-strain models and impact of vaccination (application to pneumococcus and HPV)
- One health: Modelling selection, persistence and transmission of antibiotic resistance genes in different reservoirs and across them (effluents, animals, humans)
Team members:
- Sophie Chervet
- Pachka Hammami
- Thomas Haschka
- Aleksandra Kovacevic
- Eve Rahbe
- George Shirreff
- David Smith
Former team members:
- Hélène Arduin
- Jonathan Bastard
- Audrey Duval
- Xuefeng Gao
- Rania Assab
- Matthieu Domenech de Celles
- Paul Henriot
- Mélanie Bonneault
- Ajmal Oodally