Dr. Jessica Abbott
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences
Evolutionary ecology of infectious disease systems
My main area of interest is the evolution of diversity in pathogens, with particular reference to the infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, influenza and bacterial meningitis. I am also interested in the evolution of host diversity under selection from infectious disease, with an emphasis on haemoglobin disorders that protect against malaria and the MHC.
ERC Advanced Research Fellowship, 2010
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2010
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award, 2009
Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal, 2008
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Biodiversity, 1995
Junior Research Fellowship, Merton College, 1993
Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Biomathematics, 1992
Bengali
Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow. She holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award, and currently holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship and an ERC Senior Investigator Award.
Buckee CO, Recker M, Watkins ER, Gupta S (2011) Role of stochastic processes in maintaining discrete strain structure in antigenically diverse pathogen populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Aug 29.
Penman B, Pybus OG, Weatherall DJ & Gupta S (2009) Epistatic interactions between genetic disorders of hemoglobin can explain why the sickle cell gene is uncommon in the Mediterranean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106: 21242-21246
Buckee CO, Jolley KA, Recker M, Penman B, Kriz P, Gupta S & Maiden M. (2008) Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15082-7.
Recker, M., Pybus, O.G., Nee, S. & Gupta, S. (2007) The generation of influenza outbreaks by a network of host immune responses against a limited set of antigenic types. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:7711-6.
Recker M et al (2004) Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria. Nature 429:555-8.
Gupta S et al (1999) Immunity to severe malaria is acquired after one or two exposures. Nature Medicine 5:340?3
Ferguson, N., Anderson, R.M. & Gupta, S. (1999) The effect of antibody dependent enhancement on the transmission dynamics and persistence of multiple strain pathogens. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 790?794
Gupta, S., Ferguson, N. & Anderson, R.M. (1998) Chaos, persistence and the evolution of strain structure in populations of antigenically variable infectious agents. Science 240:912?915.
Gupta, S et al (1996) The maintenance of strain structure in populations of recombining infectious agents. Nature Medicine 2(4): 437?442.
Gupta, S., Trenholme, K. Anderson, R.M. & Day, K.P. (1994) Antigenic diversity and the transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum. Science 263, 961-963.
Anderson, R.M., Gupta, S. & May, R.M. (1991) Potential of community-wide chemotherapy or immunotherapy to control the spread of HIV-1. Nature 350: 356-359.
Gupta, S., Anderson, R.M. & May, R.M. (1989) Networks of sexual contacts: implications for the pattern of spread of HIV. AIDS 3: 807-817.
Population dynamics of influenza
Within-host dynamics of HIV
Evolution of virulence and lineage structure in bacterial pathogens
Interactions between malaria-protective haemoglobin disorders
Design of vaccines against antigenically variable pathogens
European Advisory Board, Princeton University Press, USA
Rosalind Franklin Society, USA
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Professor Sunetra Gupta's innate curiosity about both the physical world and her own inner world has fuelled an accomplished career in infectious diseases and literature alike.