Henry Fell

Contact

• workRoom A34 Sir Clive Granger Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Henry.Fell@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/research/profiles/henry-fell.aspx

Biography

I completed a MSc by research at Durham University studying the effects of volcanoes on historic plague pandemics in 2017. I am now continuing in a similar area for my PhD, which aims to determine the climatic controls on Yersinia pestis (the bacterial agent of plague) through paleobiogeographical modelling and experimental microbiology. I am co-supervised at Nottingham by Adam Algar and Matthew Jones in the School of Geography and Steve Atkinson from the Centre of Biomolecular Sciences. I am will initially modelling the environmental niche of several species pivotal to the spread of plague to explore the role of climate-host dynamics on historical plague outbreaks while also working in the laboratory to explore how the fully virulent Y. pestis bacterium responds to substate environments and varying climatic conditions.