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Work Experience
Adjunct
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
January 2017 - Present ![]()
Senior Research Scientist
Georgia Institute of Technology
September 2015 - Present ![]()
Affiliate
Los Alamos National Laboratory
September 2007 - Present ![]()
Education
Ph.D. (Zoology)
Michigan State University
January 1994 - December 1998 ![]()
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isaac Vázquez-Mendoza, Erika E. Rodríguez-Torres, Mojgan Ezadian, Lindi M. Wahl, Philip J. Gerrish (2024). Estimating the Rate of Mutation to a Mutator Phenotype . Axioms.
Isaac Vázquez-Mendoza, Erika E. Rodríguez-Torres, Mojgan Ezadian, Lindi M. Wahl, Philip J. Gerrish (2024). Estimating the Rate of Mutation to a Mutator Phenotype . Axioms.
Philip J Gerrish, Claudia P Ferreira(2019). A thermodynamic limit constrains complexity and primitive social function . International Journal of Astrobiology. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1--7. Cambridge University Press ({CUP})
Lineage dynamics and mutation-selection balance in non-adapting asexual populations @article {
author = {Pénisson, S. and Sniegowski, P.D. and Colato, A. and Gerrish, P.J.},
title = {Lineage dynamics and mutation-selection balance in non-adapting asexual populations},
journal = {Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment},
volume = {2013},
number = {1},
year = {2013},
url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874460802&partnerID=MN8TOARS},
doi = {10.1088/1742-5468/2013/01/P01013}
} . Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
Gerrish, P.J., Colato, A., Sniegowski, P.D.(2013). Genomic mutation rates that neutralize adaptive evolution and natural selection . Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 10. (85).
Pénisson, S., Sniegowski, P.D., Colato, A., Gerrish, P.J.(2013). Lineage dynamics and mutation-selection balance in non-adapting asexual populations . Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2013. (1).
Sprouffske, K., Merlo, L.M.F., Gerrish, P.J., Maley, C.C., Sniegowski, P.D.(2012). Cancer in light of experimental evolution . Current Biology. 22. (17).
de la Iglesia, F., Martínez, F., Hillung, J., Cuevas, J.M., Gerrish, P.J., Daròs, J.-A., Elena, S.F.(2012). Luria-Delbrück estimation of turnip mosaic virus mutation rate in vivo . Journal of Virology. 86. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3386-3388.
Gerrish, P.J., Sniegowski, P.D.(2012). Real time forecasting of near-future evolution . Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 9. (74). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2268-2278.
Gentile, C.F., Yu, S.-C., Serrano, S.A., Gerrish, P.J., Sniegowski, P.D.(2011). Competition between high-and higher-mutating strains of Escherichia coli . Biology Letters. 7. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 422-424.
Gerrish, P.J., Sniegowski, P.D.(2011). Adding dynamical sufficiency to Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection . AIP Conference Proceedings. 1389. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1260-1262.
Beneficial mutations and the dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations @article {
author = {Sniegowski, P.D. and Gerrish, P.J.},
title = {Beneficial mutations and the dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
volume = {365},
number = {1544},
pages = {1255--1263},
year = {2010},
url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77951593683&partnerID=MN8TOARS},
doi = {10.1098/rstb.2009.0290}
} . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Sniegowski, P.D., Gerrish, P.J.(2010). Beneficial mutations and the dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365. (1544). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1255-1263.
Gerrish, P.J.(2009). Some observations about the nearest-neighbor model of the error threshold . AIP Conference Proceedings. 1168. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1564-1568.
Gerrish, P.(2008). A simple formula for obtaining markedly improved mutation rate estimates . Genetics. 180. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1773-1778.
Complete genetic linkage can subvert natural selection @article {
author = {Gerrish, P.J. and Colato, A. and Perelson, A.S. and Sniegowski, P.D.},
title = {Complete genetic linkage can subvert natural selection},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
volume = {104},
number = {15},
pages = {6266--6271},
year = {2007},
url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34547511450&partnerID=MN8TOARS},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.0607280104}
} . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Gerrish, P.J., Colato, A., Perelson, A.S., Sniegowski, P.D.(2007). Complete genetic linkage can subvert natural selection . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104. (15). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 6266-6271.
Gerrish, P.J., García-Lerma, J.G.(2003). Mutation rate and the efficacy of antimicrobial drug treatment . Lancet Infectious Diseases. 3. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 28-32.
Burr, T.L., Gattiker, J.R., Gerrish, P.J.(2003). An investigation of error sources and their impact in estimating the time to the most recent ancestor of spatially and temporally distributed HIV sequences . Statistics in Medicine. 22. (9). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1495-1516.
Kalish, M.L., Korber, B.T., Pillai, S., Robbins, K.E., Leo, Y.S., Saekhou, A., Verghese, I., Gerrish, P., Goh, C.L., Lupo, D., et al.(2002). The sequential introduction of HIV-1 subtype B and CRF01_AE in Singapore by sexual transmission: Accelerated V3 region evolution in a subpopulation of Asian CRF01 viruses . Virology. 304. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 311-329.
Wahl, L.M., Gerrish, P.J., Saika-Voivod, I.(2002). Evaluating the impact of population bottlenecks in experimental evolution . Genetics. 162. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 961-971.
Johnson, T., Gerrish, P.J.(2002). The fixation probability of a beneficial allele in a population dividing by binary fission . Genetica. 115. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 283-287.
Gerrish, P.(2002). Computational biology: Evolution plays dice . Nature. 420. (6917). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 756-757.
Rozen, D.E., De Visser, J.A.G.M., Gerrish, P.J.(2002). Fitness effects of fixed beneficial mutations in microbial populations . Current Biology. 12. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1040-1045.
Wahl, L.M., Gerrish, P.J.(2001). The probability that beneficial mutations are lost in populations with periodic bottlenecks . Evolution. 55. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2606-2610.
Gerrish, P.(2001). The rhythm of microbial adaptation (Nature (2001) 413 (299-302)) . Nature. 414. (6865).
Gerrish, P.(2001). The rhythm of microbial adaptation . Nature. 413. (6853). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 299-302.
Garcia-Lerma, J.G., Gerrish, P.J., Wright, A.C., Qari, S.H., Heneine, W.(2000). Evidence of a role for the Q151L mutation and the viral background in development of multiple dideoxynucleoside-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 . Journal of Virology. 74. (20). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 9339-9346.
Webby, R.J., Swenson, S.L., Krauss, S.L., Gerrish, P.J., Goyal, S.M., Webster, R.G.(2000). Evolution of swine H3N2 influenza viruses in the United States . Journal of Virology. 74. (18). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 8243-8251.
Sniegowski, P.D., Gerrish, P.J., Johnson, T., Shaver, A.(2000). The evolution of mutation rates: Separating causes from consequences . BioEssays. 22. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1057-1066.
De Visser, J.A.G.M., Zeyl, C.W., Gerrish, P.J., Blanchard, J.L., Lenski, R.E.(1999). Diminishing returns from mutation supply rate in asexual populations . Science. 283. (5400). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 404-406.
Miralles, R., Gerrish, P.J., Moya, A., Elena, S.F.(1999). Clonal interference and the evolution of RNA viruses . Science. 285. (5434). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1745-1747.
Evolution of competitive fitness in experimental populations of E. coli: What makes one genotype a better competitor than another? @article {
author = {Lenski, R.E. and Mongold, J.A. and Sniegowski, P.D. and Travisano, M. and Vasi, F. and Gerrish, P.J. and Schmidt, T.M.},
title = {Evolution of competitive fitness in experimental populations of E. coli: What makes one genotype a better competitor than another?},
journal = {Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology},
volume = {73},
number = {1},
pages = {35--47},
year = {1998},
url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0031966353&partnerID=MN8TOARS},
doi = {10.1023/A:1000675521611}
} . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology.
Lenski, R.E., Mongold, J.A., Sniegowski, P.D., Travisano, M., Vasi, F., Gerrish, P.J., Schmidt, T.M.(1998). Evolution of competitive fitness in experimental populations of E. coli: What makes one genotype a better competitor than another? . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology. 73. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 35-47.
Gerrish, P.J., Lenski, R.E.(1998). The fate of competing beneficial mutations in an asexual population . Genetica. 102-103. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 127-144.
Sniegowski, P.D., Gerrish, P.J., Lenski, R.E.(1997). Evolution of high mutation rates in experimental populations of E. coli . Nature. 387. (6634). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 703-705.
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Philip Gerrish, Fernando Saldana, Benjamin Galeota-Sprung, Alexandre Colato, Erika Rodriguez, Jorge Velasco-Hernandez (2021). How unequal vaccine distribution promotes the evolution of vaccine escape .
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Nono S. C. Merleau, Sophie Pénisson, Philip J. Gerrish, Santiago F. Elena, Matteo Smerlak (2021). Why are viral genomes so fragile? The bottleneck hypothesis .
Philip J. Gerrish, Fernando Saldana, Benjamin Galeota-Sprung, Alexandre Colato, Erika E. Rodriguez, Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez (2021). How Unequal Vaccine Distribution Promotes the Evolution of Vaccine Escape .
BOOK CHAPTER
Inferring the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of newly-arising mutations using samples taken from evolving populations in real time. @inbook {
author = {Gerrish, Philip and Hengartner, Nicholas},
title = {Inferring the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of newly-arising mutations using samples taken from evolving populations in real time.},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2017}
}. Algorithms for Computational Biology.