Dr Marion England
Marion studied for a BSc Hons in Human Sciences at UCL, followed by an MSc in Conservation Science at Imperial College. Her Master’s thesis explored the relationship between carotenoid pigmentation in tail feathers and disease susceptibility in the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris. She completed her PhD at the Animal and Plant Health Agency where she investigated the risk of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, a tick-borne virus, entering Great Britain using a combination of spatial and mathematical modelling.
Marion joined The Pirbright Institute in 2013 to run the UK Culicoides Reference Laboratory which carries out national surveillance of Culicoides biting midges. Her research interests are spatial epidemiology and vector ecology, with expertise in GIS. She has a long-standing collaboration with the Zoological Society of London researching vector populations in zoos. Additionally, she has projects in Ghana to investigate novel transmission cycles of human leishmaniasis. Marion enjoys lecturing at the University of Surrey and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and regularly advises Defra on Culicoides and bluetongue virus risk.
Expertise: Entomology, Epidemiology, Mathematical Biology, Tick-borne Diseases
Publications
Conferences
- England. M. Speaker, The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases, London, UK, 2016
- England. M. One Health Symposium, London, 2016
- England. M. Pandemics Conference, London, 2016
- England. M. RIG, London, 2015
- England. M. Speaker, Public Health Entomology Symposium, London, UK, 2015
- England. M. Poster, Jacques Monod Conference, France, 2014
- England. M. Speaker, ICD, Germany, 2014
- England. M. Poster, International Bluetongue and Orbivirus Conference, Italy, 2014
- England. M. Speaker, Vector-borne Diseases, Liverpool, UK, 2014
Awards
BIAZA Research Award - Silver, British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, 2019