Modelling background

Dr Lafras Uys: Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python, Monday morning 4th July. Students are encouraged to read the first two or three chapters of either/both books before arrival.

• Think Python
• Learn Python the Hard Way

Dr Susana Clusella-Trullas:  Modelling climate constraints on animal energy budgets, Wednesday morning, 6 July. You will find these two papers rather technical if you have no biological background, but they form an interesting insight into the way biologists model climate effects on creatures like lizards and mussels.

• Modeling Global Macroclimatic Constraints on Ectotherm Energy Budgets
• Intertidal Mussel Microclimates: Predicting the Body Temperature of a Sessile
  Invertebrate

Immunological background reading

• Essential Clinical Immunology
• Introduction to Medical Immunology
• Tumour Immunology