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Dr Derek Gatherer

Lecturer

Derek Gatherer

Lancaster University

Furness Building

LA1 4YG

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 592900

Research overview

Profile

Currently active projects:

  1. Tempo & mode in the evolution of RNA viruses.  PhD student Hanouf Alhamdan funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  2. 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
  3. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: Herpesvirales working group.

Research Interests

  1. Vaccine hesitancy (esp. 19th century)
  2. RNA virus evolution
  3. BioFutures
  4. Taxonomy of Herpesvirales
  5. Societal response to the English Sweat (15th-16th century)

External Roles

  1. Fellow, Centre for Social Futures (formerly ISF)
  2. Herpesvirales Working Group, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

Current Teaching

  1. BIOL243 Medical Microbiology
  2. BIOL275 Bioinformatics
  3. BIOL313 Proteins: Structure, Function & Evolution (convener)
  4. BIOL387 Biosciences Research Project (deputy convener)
  5. 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 Lancaster University in America:  Sequencing of 4 isolates of Crithidia parasite 2024-2025

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