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Richard A. Neher

University of Basel · CH
Area of research
Genetics · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Influenza Virus Research Studies.
h-index
61
citations
18,494
works
249
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

The mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 is highly variable between sites and is influenced by sequence context, genomic region, and RNA structure
Nucleic Acids Research 2025cited by 11position: lastdoi
A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission
Nature Medicine 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 within-host persistence
Nature Reviews Microbiology 2024cited by 25position: middledoi
A pseudovirus system enables deep mutational scanning of the full SARS-CoV-2 spike
Cell 2023cited by 206position: middledoi
APOBEC3 deaminase editing in mpox virus as evidence for sustained human transmission since at least 2016
Science 2023cited by 198position: middledoi
Fitness effects of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 proteins
Virus Evolution 2023cited by 108position: lastdoi
Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 Mutational Spectrum
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2023cited by 74position: middledoi
Joint visualization of seasonal influenza serology and phylogeny to inform vaccine composition
Frontiers in Bioinformatics 2023cited by 9position: middledoi
Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus
PLoS Biology 2022cited by 349position: middledoi
Evolution, geographic spreading, and demographic distribution of Enterovirus D68
PLoS Pathogens 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Nextclade: clade assignment, mutation calling and quality control for viral genomes
The Journal of Open Source Software 2021cited by 1,094position: lastdoi
Novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: the pandemics within the pandemic
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2021cited by 375position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse
Nature Microbiology 2021cited by 312position: middledoi
Investigate the origins of COVID-19
Science 2021cited by 168position: middledoi
Interactions between seasonal human coronaviruses and implications for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective study in Stockholm, Sweden, 2009-2020
Journal of Clinical Virology 2021cited by 37position: middledoi
COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: on the importance of testing, contact tracing and isolation
Swiss Medical Weekly 2020cited by 543position: middledoi
Coast-to-Coast Spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the Early Epidemic in the United States
Cell 2020cited by 375position: middledoi
Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington state
Science 2020cited by 323position: middledoi
Potential impact of seasonal forcing on a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Swiss Medical Weekly 2020cited by 276position: firstdoi
Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020
Eurosurveillance 2020cited by 261position: middledoi
Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 81position: middledoi
Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution
Bioinformatics 2018cited by 3,408position: lastdoi
TreeTime: Maximum-likelihood phylodynamic analysis
Virus Evolution 2017cited by 1,374position: lastdoi
Predictive Modeling of Influenza Shows the Promise of Applied Evolutionary Biology
Trends in Microbiology 2017cited by 169position: middledoi
<i>In vivo</i> mutation rates and the landscape of fitness costs of HIV-1
Virus Evolution 2017cited by 125position: lastdoi
Estimating time of HIV-1 infection from next-generation sequence diversity
PLoS Computational Biology 2017cited by 63position: middledoi
Establishment and stability of the latent HIV-1 DNA reservoir
eLife 2016cited by 164position: middledoi
Revisiting adult neurogenesis and the role of erythropoietin for neuronal and oligodendroglial differentiation in the hippocampus
Molecular Psychiatry 2016cited by 114position: middledoi
Error rates, PCR recombination, and sampling depth in HIV-1 whole genome deep sequencing
Virus Research 2016cited by 52position: lastdoi
Population genomics of intrapatient HIV-1 evolution
eLife 2015cited by 278position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Jan Albert · Karolinska University Hospital8 papers (2015–2022)Emma B. Hodcroft · SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics6 papers (2020–2022)Jesse D. Bloom · Fred Hutch Cancer Center5 papers (2021–2025)Fabio Zanini · UNSW Sydney4 papers (2015–2017)Johanna Brodin · Karolinska Institutet4 papers (2015–2017)Robert Dyrdak · Karolinska University Hospital3 papers (2020–2022)Vadim Puller · Université de Rouen Normandie3 papers (2017–2017)Trevor Bedford · Fred Hutch Cancer Center3 papers (2017–2023)John Huddleston · Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa2 papers (2018–2023) · 2 papers (2017–2018) · 2 papers (2015–2016)James Hadfield · University of Otago2 papers (2018–2023)Christa Lanz · Iowa State University2 papers (2015–2016)Isabella Eckerle · German Cancer Research Center2 papers (2020–2021)Michael Worobey · University of Arizona2 papers (2021–2023)Lina Thebo · Karolinska Institutet2 papers (2015–2016)Simone Pompei · University of Missouri1 papers (2017–2017)Cornelius Roemer · University of Basel1 papers (2021–2021)Vítor Borges · Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais1 papers (2023–2023)Silvia Stringhini · University of Geneva1 papers (2020–2020)