Curriculum Vitae
Philip Gerrish
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Philip Gerrish
Citation names
- Gerrish, Philip
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0B1E-A4EE-ECA2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6393-0553
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Spanish; Castilian | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Portuguese | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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1994/08/25 - 1998/12/18
Concluded
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Zoology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Michigan State University - Lansing Community Campus, United States
"Dynamics of mutation and selection in asexual populations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1992/08/20 - 1997/12/15
Concluded
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Mathematics (Master)
Major in Probability Theory
Michigan State University - Lansing Community Campus, United States
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1992/08/20 - 1994/05/15
Concluded
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BioSystems Engineering (Master)
Michigan State University - Lansing Community Campus, United States
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1984/09/07 - 1988/05/20
Concluded
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Physics (Licence)
Major in physics
Hope College, United States
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2015/08/15 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Georgia Institute of Technology, United States |
| 2008/08/20 - 2015/07/31 | Principal Investigator (Research) | University of New Mexico, United States |
| 2004/09/15 - 2008/08/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States |
| 2000/05/01 - 2003/04/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2018/01/15 - 2019/12/10 | Assessing the potential of recombination inhibitors as antimicrobial agents
CAPES/MEC
Principal investigator
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil |
Fulbright Association
Ongoing
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| 2014/08/20 - 2019/12/10 | Reliving the past: Experimental evolution of major transitions in the history of life.
NNA15BB04A
Other
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
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NASA
Ongoing
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| 2012/09/01 - 2014/08/31 | Assessing a novel hypothesis that B-cell error catastrophe can cause germinal center termination.
CETI/UNM
Principal investigator
University of New Mexico, United States
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National Institutes of Health
Concluded
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| 2011/09/01 - 2013/08/31 | Mutation rate catastrophe (continuation)
GM079843-SUPPL
Principal investigator
University of New Mexico, United States
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National Institutes of Health
Concluded
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| 2008/08/15 - 2012/08/14 | Mutation rate catastrophe: testing a novel theory for extinction of clonal organisms
R01 GM079843-01
Principal investigator
University of New Mexico, United States
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National Institutes of Health
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2018/11 | The rhythm of microbial adaptation, revisited. | Ancestral Lines
University of Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
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| 2018/10 | Is there sex on other planets? | RCM2 Mathematics seminar
University of Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)
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| 2018/04/07 | On the inevitability of recombination | Biology department seminar series
University of Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
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| 2018/02 | A thermodynamic limit constrains the evolution of cooperation and complexity | CEID seminar
University of Georgia (Athens, United States)
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| 2017/11 | Is there sex on other planets? An astrobiologist weighs in on the enduring problem of explaining the evolution of sex and recombination | PBEE colloquium
Emory University (Atlanta, United States)
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| 2017/11 | Dynamics and fate of beneficial mutations under lineage contamination | Ancestral Lines
University of Frankfurt / Mathematics (Frankfurt, Germany)
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| 2017/07 | Some universal properties of adaptation under linkage | Center for Phylogenomics seminar series
University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain)
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| 2017/07 | On the inevitability of recombination | Mathematics Departmental seminar
University of Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
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| 2017/06 | An overview of NASA/NAI/CAN7 research and promising collaborative potential with CAB | CAB seminar
Centro de Astrobiologia (Alcala de Henares, Spain)
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| 2017/06 | Inferring the distribution of mutational effects (DFE) from data taken at the population level in real time | 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2017
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2017/06 | Effects of lineage contamination on adaptive evolution | NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, AbSciCon 2017
NASA (Tucson, United States)
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| 2016/11 | Forecasting the near-future course of evolution in real time | Mind the Gap 5: Bridging the gap between theoretical and empirical population genetics
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2015/10 | Probabilistic features of natural selection suggest the evolution of recombination is inevitable | Probabilistic Models in Biology
CONACYT / UNAM (Playa del Carmen, Mexico)
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| 2015/10 | Forecasting evolution | Institute seminar series
Instituto de Ecologia (Xalapa, Mexico)
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| 2015/06 | Forecasting the near-future course of evolution | NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, AbSciCon 2015
NASA (Chicago, United States)
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| 2013/02 | ------- MANY MANY MORE INVITED TALKS ------ [Autocomplete on web form made it virtually unusable and virtually impossible to complete this list] | conference title |