Dr. Mathilda Whittle

E-mail: TBD
I am broadly interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-microbe interactions. In the King lab, I aim to use theoretical techniques to investigate the evolutionary trajectory of host-pathogen-symbiont dynamics within the context of climate change.

 

Publications

Whittle, M., Bonsall, M.B., Barreaux, A.M.G., Ponton, F., English, S. 2023. A theoretical model for host controlled regulation of symbiont density. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36, 1731-1744.
Whittle, M., Barreaux, A.M.G., Bonsall, M.B., Ponton, F., English, S. 2021. Insect-host control of obligate, intracellular symbiont density. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20211993.
Hammann, S., Cramp, L.J.E., Whittle, M., Evershed, R.P. Cholesterol degradation in archaeological pottery mediated by fired clay and fatty acid pro-oxidants. Tetrahedron Letters 59, 4401-4404.

Education

2024 PhD University of Bristol, UK and Macquarie, Australia 
2020 MRes Entomology, University of Reading, UK 
2018 BSc Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

Awards

2020 Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council                              Studentship