Research
My research is in the mathematics of infectious diseases.
Current projects include:
- Models of influenza strain dynamics
- Within-host dynamics of influenza
- In vitro dynamics of Salmonella
- Bioinformatic methods to detect RNA signals in viruses
Publications
Kissler, S. M., Gog, J. R., Viboud, C., Charu, V., Bjørnstad, O. N., Simonsen, L., 14 Grenfell, B. T. (2019). Geographic transmission hubs of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the United States. Epidemics.
Gog, J. R., Lever, A. M., & Skittrall, J. P. (2018). A new method for detecting signal regions in ordered sequences of real numbers, and application to viral genomic data. PloS one, 13(4), e0195763.
Klepac, P., Kissler, S., & Gog, J. (2018). Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic– The model behind the documentary. Epidemics.
Simonsen, L., Gog, J. R., Olson, D., & Viboud, C. (2016) Infectious disease surveillance in the big data era: towards faster and locally relevant systems. J. Infectious Diseases 214, sup 4., S380-385
Kucharski, A. J., Andreasen, V., & Gog, J. R. (2016). Capturing the dynamics of pathogens with many strains. Journal of mathematical biology, 72(1-2), 1-24.
Wikramaratna, P. S., Kucharski, A., Gupta, S., Andreasen, V., McLean, A. R., & Gog, J. R. (2015). Five challenges in modelling interacting strain dynamics. Epidemics, 10, 31-34.
Gog, J. R., Pellis, L., Wood, J. L., McLean, A. R., Arinaminpathy, N., & Lloyd-Smith, J. O. (2015). Seven challenges in modeling pathogen dynamics within-host and across scales. Epidemics, 10, 45-48.
Gog, J.R., Ballesteros, S., Viboud, C., Simonsen, L., Bjornstad, O.N., Shaman, J., Chao, D.L., Khan, F. and Grenfell, B.T., (2014). Spatial transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza in the US. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(6), p.e1003635.
Other Professional Activities
Public Involvement/Engagement
Professor Julia Gog has regular media apearences and is strogly involved in public engagement.
- Professor Gog won the Royal Socity’s Rosalind Franklin medal. The project will be developing resources for use in schools on epidemic modelling:
https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/rosalind-franklin-award/ - Professor Gog will be giving a public lecture next year, joint between Gresham college and London Mathematical Society
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/maths-covid - She has worked with Plus magazine to produce public articles on covid-19:
https://plus.maths.org/content/how-can-maths-fight-pandemic
https://plus.maths.org/content/relaxing-rules
https://plus.maths.org/content/problem-combining-r-rates
https://plus.maths.org/content/epidemic-growth-rate