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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Julia Rose Gog

Professor of Mathematical Biology, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

David N. Moore Fellow in Mathematics, Queens' College

Current roles:

Honours and awards:

Career:

  • 2017-present  Professor of Mathematical Biology 
  • 2013-2017 Reader in Mathematical Biology
  • 2010-2012  Visiting Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  • 2006-2013 University Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2006-2012 Royal Society University Research Fellowship, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2004-present Official Fellow, Queens' College
  • 2004-2006 Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
  • 2002-2004 Research Fellowship, Queens' College

Research:

Julia Gog's research is in the mathematics of infectious diseases. Recent projects include:

  • Models of influenza strain dynamics
  • Spatial spread of influenza
  • Within-host dynamics of influenza
  • In vitro dynamics of Salmonella
  • Bioinformatic methods to detect RNA signals in viruses

University news items on our work

For list of publications, please try Julia's profile on Google Scholar.

Photo credit: Marisa Sutherland-Brown

Publications

The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens.
MA Gutierrez, J Gog
– Journal of theoretical biology
(2023)
567,
111493
(doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111493)
Coughs, colds and "freshers' flu" survey in the University of Cambridge, 2007-2008.
KTD Eames, ML Tang, EM Hill, MJ Tildesley, JM Read, MJ Keeling, JR Gog
– Epidemics
(2022)
42,
100659
(doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100659)
The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens
MA Gutierrez, JR Gog
(2022)
(doi: 10.1101/2022.11.29.22282822)
Short-term Projections based on Early Omicron Variant Dynamics in England
M Keeling, E Brooks-Pollock, R Challen, L Danon, L Dyson, J Gog, L Guzmán Rincón, E Hill, L Pellis, J Read, M Tildesley
(2021)
2021.12.30.21268307
(doi: 10.1101/2021.12.30.21268307)
Vaccine breakthrough and the invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants
C Saad-Roy, S Levin, J Gog, J Farrar, C Wagner, J Metcalf, B Grenfell
(2021)
2021.12.13.21267725
(doi: 10.1101/2021.12.13.21267725)
Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic.
C Vegvari, S Abbott, F Ball, E Brooks-Pollock, R Challen, BS Collyer, C Dangerfield, JR Gog, KM Gostic, JM Heffernan, TD Hollingsworth, V Isham, E Kenah, D Mollison, J Panovska-Griffiths, L Pellis, MG Roberts, G Scalia Tomba, RN Thompson, P Trapman
– Statistical Methods in Medical Research
(2021)
31,
1675
(doi: 10.1177/09622802211037079)
SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK university students: lessons from September–December 2020 and modelling insights for future student return
J Enright, EM Hill, HB Stage, KJ Bolton, EJ Nixon, EL Fairbanks, ML Tang, E Brooks-Pollock, L Dyson, CJ Budd, RB Hoyle, L Schewe, JR Gog, MJ Tildesley
– Royal Society Open Science
(2021)
8,
210310
(doi: 10.1098/rsos.210310)
Vaccine escape in a heterogeneous population: insights for SARS-CoV-2 from a simple model
JR Gog, EM Hill, L Danon, RN Thompson
– R Soc Open Sci
(2021)
8,
210530
(doi: 10.1098/rsos.210530)
Early epidemiological signatures of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: establishment of B.1.617.2 in England
R Challen, L Dyson, C Overton, L Guzman-Rincon, E Hill, H Stage, E Brooks-Pollock, L Pellis, F Scarabel, D Pascall, P Blomquist, M Tildesley, D Williamson, S Siegert, X Xiong, B Youngman, Juniper, J Read, J Gog, J Gog, M Keeling, L Danon
(2021)
(doi: 10.1101/2021.06.05.21258365)
Epidemic interventions: insights from classic results
JR Gog, TD Hollingsworth
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
(2021)
376,
20200263
(doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0263)
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Research Group

Disease Dynamics

Email

jrg20@cam.ac.uk

Room

G0.10

Telephone

01223 760429

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