Derek Morris
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Morris graduated with a B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1998. In 2001, he completed his PhD in molecular genetics at the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK. The research undertaken during his PhD concentrated on trying to identify genes that contribute to reading disability / dyslexia. Since joining the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group as a research fellow in 2001, Dr. Morris has worked on molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia. In 2003, he was awarded a HRB Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to investigate novel methods for mapping genes for complex diseases. In 2006, Dr. Morris was appointed Lecturer in Molecular Psychiatry within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Research Interest
Bioinformatics; Biostatistics; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE POLYMORPHISMS; Genetic/Molecular epidemiology; Genomic structure and function, molecular approaches to gene function; Human genetics; Mammilian and human genetics and genomics; Molecular population genetics; Psychiatric genetics; Psychiatry; Psychosis; Quantitative and molecular genetics; Quantitative genetics and genetics of complex traits; Schizophrenia
Publications
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Donohoe, G., Rose, E., Morris, D., Authors reply, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 206, (4), 2015, p344-
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Mothersill O, Tangney N, Morris D.W, McCarthy H, Frodl T, Gill M, Corvin A, Donohoe G, Further evidence of alerted default network connectivity and association with theory of mind ability in schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, 2016
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Leonardo Tozzi, Angela Carballedo, Friedrich Wetterling, Hazel McCarthy, Veronica O'Keane, Michael Gill, Derrek Morris, Ciara Fahey, James Meaney, Thomas Frodl, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of the FKBP5 Gene and Childhood Maltreatment as Predictors of Structural Changes in Brain Areas Involved in Emotional Processing in Depression., Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, 2016, p487-497
