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Biochemistry student takes runner up prize in FameLab UK Final

Awards and Appointments

DPhil student Jonny Brooks-Bartlett joined nine other contestants in the FameLab UK 2014 Grand Final on April 23rd.

His three minute presentation took an amusing look at how epidemiological modelling has recently been used to forecast impending doom for Facebook.

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