Population biology principles and emerging novel pathogen threats
Professor Mike Bonsall
Monday, 05 February 2024, 1pm to 2pm
BDI/OxPop Building LG seminar rooms
In this talk I will introduce ideas from population biology and use them to help us understand emerging and novel pathogen spread. I will review our recent work on defining pandemics, detecting novel pathogens and approaches to controlling these novel threats. I will highlight our covid fieldwork and the advantages/limitations of detection methods for rare pathogens.
Biography: I am a population biologist, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Biology and Fellow at St Peters College. Before Oxford, I held a Royal Society Research Fellowship and completed postdoctoral, PhD and undergraduate training at Imperial College.
Forthcoming events
Assessing Representativeness and Bias in Large Prospective Biobanks: Insights from Our Future Health
Tuesday, 03 March 2026, 1pm to 2pm @ Richard Doll Building, Lecture Theatre
IDEU Symposium 4–5 March 2026
Wednesday, 04 March 2026 to Thursday, 05 March 2026 @ Richard Doll Building - Lecture Theatre
Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea level rise
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 1pm to 2pm @ Richard Doll Building, Lecture Theatre
Festival of Global Health – 2040
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 4pm to 8pm @ Curzon Oxford, Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford OX1 1NZ