Julia Gog

{{short description|British mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Julia Gog | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Julia Rose Gog | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | home_town = | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | fields = Mathematical biology<ref name=gs/> | workplaces = University of Cambridge | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MA, PhD) | thesis_title = The dynamics of multiple strains of an infectious disease | thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619522 | thesis_year = 2003 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = {{Plainlist| * Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2004) * Whitehead Prize (2017) * Rosalind Franklin Award (2020)}} | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''Julia Rose Gog''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE}} is a British mathematician and professor of mathematical biology in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Cambridge.<ref name=epmc>{{EuropePMC}}</ref><ref name=dampt>{{cite web|title=Dr Julia Gog|url=https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/j.r.gog/|website=damtp.cam.ac.uk|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> She is also a David N. Moore fellow, director of studies in mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge<ref name="queens">{{cite web|title=Dr Julia Gog|url=http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/dr-julia-gog|publisher=Queens' College Cambridge|access-date=21 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422123221/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/dr-julia-gog|archive-date=22 April 2017|website=queens.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> and a member of both the Cambridge immunology network and the infectious diseases interdisciplinary research centre.<ref name=immun>{{cite web|title=Dr Julia Gog|url=https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/gog|website=immunology.cam.ac.uk|date=19 October 2012|department=Cambridge Immunology Network|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="infect">{{cite web|title=Dr Julia Gog|url=https://www.infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk/directory/jrg20@cam.ac.uk|website=infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk|date=10 May 2011|department=Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Women of mathematics: Julia Gog|url=https://plus.maths.org/content/womem-mathematics-julia-gog|first= Marianne|last=Solong|year=2017 |publisher=Plus Magazine|access-date=21 April 2017|website=plus.maths.org}}</ref>

==Education== Gog read mathematics in Trinity College, Cambridge where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2000-01/weekly/5846/29.html|title=Congregation of the Regent House on 12 May 2001|work=Cambridge University Reporter|date=16 May 2001|access-date=2024-05-17}}</ref> She became a research fellow in Queens' College, Cambridge,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2001-02/weekly/5873/28.html|title=Queen's College|work=Cambridge University Reporter|date=6 February 2002|access-date=2024-05-17}}</ref> and completed a PhD in 2003.<ref name=PhD-619522>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21432574630003606|title=The dynamics of multiple strains of an infectious disease|first= Julia Rose|last=Gog|date=2003|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.619522}}|website=lib.cam.ac.uk|oclc=894594329}}</ref>

==Career and research== Gog is a specialist in mathematical and theoretical biology<ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=dblp>{{DBLP}}</ref><ref name=scopus>{{Scopus id}}</ref> and the study of infectious diseases,<ref name="FergusonGog2014">{{cite journal|last1=Ferguson|first1=Neil M.|author-link1=Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist)|last2=Gog|first2=Julia R.|last3=Ballesteros|first3=Sébastien|last4=Viboud|first4=Cécile|last5=Simonsen|first5=Lone|last6=Bjornstad|first6=Ottar N.|author6-link=Ottar Nordal Bjørnstad|last7=Shaman|first7=Jeffrey|last8=Chao|first8=Dennis L.|last9=Khan|first9=Farid|last10=Grenfell|first10=Bryan T.|title=Spatial Transmission of 2009 Pandemic Influenza in the US|journal=PLOS Computational Biology|volume=10|issue=6|year=2014|article-number=e1003635|issn=1553-7358|doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003635|pmid=24921923 |pmc=4055284|bibcode=2014PLSCB..10E3635G |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="GogWoodroffe2002">{{cite journal|last1=Gog|first1=Julia|last2=Woodroffe|first2=Rosie|last3=Swinton|first3=Jonathan|title=Disease in endangered metapopulations: the importance of alternative hosts|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences|volume=269|issue=1492|year=2002|pages=671–676|issn=0962-8452|doi=10.1098/rspb.2001.1667|pmid=11934357|pmc=1690941}}</ref><ref name="Grenfell2004">{{cite journal|last1=Grenfell|first1=Bryan T.|author-link1=Bryan Grenfell|first2=Oliver |last2=Pybus|author-link2=Oliver Pybus|first3=Julia |last3=Gog|author-link3=Julia Gog|first4=James |last4=Wood|first5=Janet |last5=Daly|first6= Jenny|last6=Mumford|first7=Edward C.|last7=Holmes|author-link7=Edward C. Holmes|title=Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens|journal=Science|volume=303|issue=5656|year=2004|pages=327–332|issn=0036-8075|doi=10.1126/science.1090727|pmid= 14726583|bibcode=2004Sci...303..327G |s2cid=4017704}} {{closed access}}</ref><ref name="GogGrenfell2002">{{cite journal|last1=Gog|first1=J. R.|last2=Grenfell|first2=B. T.|title=Dynamics and selection of many-strain pathogens|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=99|issue=26|year=2002|pages=17209–17214|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.252512799|pmid= 12481034 |pmc=139294|bibcode=2002PNAS...9917209G |doi-access=free}}</ref> particularly influenza<ref name="SimonsenViboud2007">{{cite journal|last1=Simonsen|first1=L.|last2=Viboud|first2=C.|last3=Grenfell|first3=B. T.|last4=Dushoff|first4=J.|last5=Jennings|first5=L.|last6=Smit|first6=M.|last7=Macken|first7=C.|last8=Hata|first8=M.|last9=Gog|first9=J.|last10=Miller|first10=M. A.|last11=Holmes|first11=E. C.|title=The Genesis and Spread of Reassortment Human Influenza A/H3N2 Viruses Conferring Adamantane Resistance|journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution|volume=24|issue=8|year=2007|pages=1811–1820|issn=0737-4038|doi=10.1093/molbev/msm103|pmid= 17522084|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="GogAfonso2007">{{cite journal|last1=Gog|first1=Julia R.|last2=Afonso|first2=Emmanuel Dos Santos|last3=Dalton|first3=Rosa M.|last4=Leclercq|first4=India|last5=Tiley|first5=Laurence|last6=Elton|first6=Debra|last7=von Kirchbach|first7=Johann C.|last8=Naffakh|first8=Nadia|last9=Escriou|first9=Nicolas|last10=Digard|first10=Paul|title=Codon conservation in the influenza A virus genome defines RNA packaging signals|journal=Nucleic Acids Research|volume=35|issue=6|year=2007|pages=1897–1907|issn=0305-1048|doi=10.1093/nar/gkm087|pmid= 17332012 |pmc=1874621}}</ref><ref name=kirchbach>{{cite journal|last1=Hutchinson|first1=E. C.|last2=von Kirchbach|first2=J. C.|last3=Gog|first3=J. R.|last4=Digard|first4=P.|title=Genome packaging in influenza A virus|journal=Journal of General Virology|volume=91|issue=2|year=2009|pages=313–328|issn=0022-1317|doi=10.1099/vir.0.017608-0|pmid= 19955561|doi-access=free|hdl=20.500.11820/529613a5-c4cd-4bb3-b217-f25d70808299|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name="PekoszWise2012">{{cite journal|last1=Pekosz|first1=Andrew|last2=Wise|first2=Helen M.|last3=Hutchinson|first3=Edward C.|last4=Jagger|first4=Brett W.|last5=Stuart|first5=Amanda D.|last6=Kang|first6=Zi H.|last7=Robb|first7=Nicole|last8=Schwartzman|first8=Louis M.|last9=Kash|first9=John C.|last10=Fodor|first10=Ervin|last11=Firth|first11=Andrew E.|last12=Gog|first12=Julia R.|last13=Taubenberger|first13=Jeffery K.|last14=Digard|first14=Paul|title=Identification of a Novel Splice Variant Form of the Influenza A Virus M2 Ion Channel with an Antigenically Distinct Ectodomain|journal=PLOS Pathogens|volume=8|issue=11|year=2012|article-number=e1002998|issn=1553-7374|doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.1002998|pmid=23133386 |pmc=3486900 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and coronavirus disease 2019.<ref name="Gog2020">{{cite journal|last1=Gog|first1=Julia R.|title=How you can help with COVID-19 modelling|journal=Nature Reviews Physics|volume=2|issue=6|year=2020|pages=274–275|issn=2522-5820|doi=10.1038/s42254-020-0175-7|pmid=34172979|pmc=7144181|bibcode=2020NatRP...2..274G |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2020, she served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) advising the government of the United Kingdom on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name=gov>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups|website=gov.uk|title=List of participants of SAGE and related sub-groups|author=Anon|year=2020|location=London}}</ref>

Gog's paper ''The influenza virus: it's all in the packaging'' was included in the book ''50 Visions of Mathematics'',<ref name="visions">{{cite book|last1=Gog|first1=Julia|author-link1=Julia Gog|editor1-last=Parc|editor1-first=Sam|title=50 Visions of Mathematics|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-870181-1|pages=72–74|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/50-visions-of-mathematics-9780198701811|access-date=21 April 2017|chapter=The influenza virus: it's all in the packaging}}</ref> published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), a book "designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics ... without frying your brain".

Her research has been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).<ref name=grants>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826123435/https://gtr.ukri.org/person/F3AFF818-62A2-41F9-A457-8164DFAFE5A4|location=Swindon|publisher=UK Research and Innovation|website=ukri.org|title=UK government grants awarded to Julia Rose Gog|archive-date=26 August 2020|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/person/F3AFF818-62A2-41F9-A457-8164DFAFE5A4|author=Anon|year=2020}}</ref>

===Awards and honours=== In 2015 Gog was awarded Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching by the University of Cambridge,<ref>{{cite web|title=Prize Winners|author=Anon|year=2017|url=http://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/recognising-excellent-teaching/pilkington-prize/prize-winners|website=cctl.cam.ac.uk|department=Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=21 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513091353/http://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/recognising-excellent-teaching/pilkington-prize/prize-winners|archive-date=13 May 2017}}</ref> and in 2016 she was involved in the National Young Mathematicians' Awards, a project in which 490 schools competed.<ref name="ealing">{{cite news|last1=Joshi|first1=Amita|title=North Ealing Primary School whizz kids become finalists in National Mathematician's Award|url=https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/north-ealing-primary-school-whizz-10694016|access-date=21 April 2017|website=mylondon.news|date=7 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="york">{{cite news|title=York youngsters beat 490 other school teams to become national maths champions|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14145397.York_youngsters_beat_490_other_school_teams_to_become_national_maths_champions/|access-date=21 April 2017|website=yorkpress.co.uk|publisher=The Press|date=2015|first=Haydn |last=Lewis}}</ref> She was awarded the Whitehead Prize in 2017 by the London Mathematical Society,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aperiodical.com/2017/07/2017-lms-prize-winners-announced/|year=2017|title= LMS prize winners announced|website=aperiodical.com|access-date=17 July 2017|first=Christian |last=Lawson-Perfect|publisher=The Aperiodical}}</ref> and the Rosalind Franklin prize by the Royal Society in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/rosalind-franklin-award/|title=Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture |publisher=Royal Society|location=London|year=2020|author=Anon|website=royalsociety.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805021128/https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/rosalind-franklin-award/|archive-date=5 August 2020}}</ref>

Gog was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) which she held from 2004 to 2012.<ref name=queens/>

In 2017, Gog was one of 13 mathematicians featured in the touring photographic exhibition ''Women of Mathematics''. It showed photographs by Noel Tovia Matoff and extracts from interviews with the women.<ref name="about">{{cite web|title=About Women in Maths|url=https://womeninmath.net/project/|website=womeninmath.net|access-date=21 April 2017|author=Anon|year=2017}}</ref><ref name="plus">{{cite web|title=Women of mathematics|url=https://plus.maths.org/content/women|website=plus.maths.org|publisher=Plus Magazine|access-date=21 April 2017|author=Anon|year=2017}}</ref>

In 2020, Gog won the Rosalind Franklin Award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to academia and the COVID-19 response.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63142|supp=y|page=B67|date=10 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Cambridge Independent|url=https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/queen-s-birthday-honours-and-covid-honours-all-the-cambridgeshire-recipients-9126013/|title=Queen's Birthday Honours and Covid honours 2020: All the Cambridgeshire recipients including Sam Davies, Julia Gog and Chris Jenkin|first=Paul|last=Brackley|date=9 October 2020}}</ref>

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