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SUMMARY:The Nature of Plagues - Professor Angela McLean\, University of Ox
 ford
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nThe spread of an infection is an ecological event\
 , with the infected hosts acting like prey and the infectious agents like 
 predators – albeit rather tiny ones. This metaphor can help us understan
 d the spread of emerging infections\, the control of existing infections a
 nd the spread of infections inside individual people.  Using examples from
  infectious diseases that pose problems right now this lecture will illust
 rate how taking an ecological view of plagues helps us to understand them 
 and\, sometimes\, control them.  \n\nBiography\n\nProfessor Angela McLean 
 FRS studied mathematics at Oxford but soon after decided to become a biolo
 gist. After a brief spell in the City she joined the Mathematical Biology 
 Group at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill then ret
 urned to Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 1994 she
  went on secondment to the Institut Pasteur in Paris to work on the popula
 tion dynamics of murine lymphocytes in the immunology department there. In
  1998 she became Head of Mathematical Biology at the BBSRC’s Institute f
 or Animal Health. Since 2008 she has been a Senior Research Fellow at All 
 Souls College in Oxford. She was elected to the Royal Society in 2009\, an
 d was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal in 2011. 
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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