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Welcome to the web site for the Quantitative Biology and Epidemiology (QBE, “cube”) research group of the Plant Pathology Department at UC Davis. In the cube group we are interested in understanding how plant disease epidemics, and many other phenomena, arise out of the interactions between people, agriculture, the environment, and wider ecosystems. Wherever possible, we express relationships among these components quantitatively, but we utilize a wide range of quantitative and qualitative techniques in order to combine information from different domains into models.

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@ToddFitchette @TheChadColby Todd, I'm pretty sure you and me could disagree from here to Christmas about all kinds… https://t.co/fz3nJukMNU Posted 2 days ago

@PlantPathSecret @surt_lab One of the joys of epidemiology: QBE never needs much tidying... a bit of light dusting… https://t.co/uFhGSOUV2S Posted 3 days ago

@BA_BreCheese @Cornell We do our best. It's a shared frustration among PIs that we lack of time for reading new pap… https://t.co/zH9G4IFSBC Posted 3 days ago
The Long Narrow Swale: Thoughts on interdisciplinary research
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The Rumsfeld filter
It is well over a year since the first post on this blog. I had intended it to be monthly or maybe happen once every two months. Ah well, most of the time that I wasn't spending writing blogs I was sciencing, so I'll let myself off the...
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"Science is Sciencing"
The title for this post is stolen from a 1938 essay by the anthropologist Leslie A. White. The essay - a reflection on the complex, interconnected phenomena that science attempts to interpret, and the resulting need for traditional artificial...