Dr Derek Gatherer
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Now on editorial board of and guest editor for special collection "" for Springer Nature.
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Google Scholar metrics for end-2024:
h-index 42; g-index 88; publication years 39; cites: 8086; cites for most-cited paper 790; mean cites/paper 35; mean cites/year 213; papers >500 cites 2; papers >250 cites 6; papers >100 cites 23; papers >10 cites/year 15.
Profile
Currently active projects:
- Tempo & mode in the evolution of RNA viruses. PhD student Hanouf Alhamdan funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy, with Prof Elena Semino (Lancaster) and others. Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council: grant ref. ES/V000926/1
- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: Herpesvirales working group.
Research Interests
- Vaccine hesitancy (esp. 19th century)
- RNA virus evolution
- BioFutures
- Taxonomy of Herpesvirales
- Societal response to the English Sweat (15th-16th century)
External Roles
- Fellow, Centre for Social Futures (formerly ISF)
- Herpesvirales Working Group, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Current Teaching
- BIOL243 Medical Microbiology
- BIOL275 Bioinformatics
- BIOL313 Proteins: Structure, Function & Evolution (convener)
- BIOL387 Biosciences Research Project (deputy convener)
- BIOL445 Bioinformatics (convener)
Research Grants
Economic & Social Research Council: Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy (ES/V000926/1) 2021-2024 - post-project writing phase
Global Impact Fund, Friends of 糖心Vlog in America: Sequencing of 4 isolates of Crithidia parasite 2024-2025
NorthWestBio Doctoral Training Partnership 2025-2029
PhD Supervision Interests
Interested in finding a student who would use corpus linguistic techniques to analyse past pandemic responses, e.g. to 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2025
Research
01/03/2021 → 30/06/2024
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Prize (including medals and awards)
Prize (including medals and awards)
- DSI - Health
- Institute for Social Futures Fellow
- ISF Fellows 2019/20
- Microbes, Pathogens and Immunity