MFisher

Mat joined the Taylor lab in April of 1997. Mat received his BSc. and PhD. from Edinburgh University in Scotland, graduating from the labs of Mark Viney, David Walliker and Nick Barton in 1997 with a thesis on "Population genetics of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti". While in the Taylor lab, Mat used his skills at characterizing molecular diversity to answer questions on the population genetics, epidemiology and evolution of fungi, with special reference to the pathogenic desert fungus, Coccidioides immitis.

Mat left the Taylor lab in September 2000, returning to England via lengthy stays in Australia and India.

Publications

• Donnelly, C. A., Fisher, M. C., Fraser, C., Ghani, A. C., Riley, S., Ferguson, N. M. and Anderson, R. M. 2004. Epidemiological and genetic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome [Review]. - The Lancet Infectious Diseases 4: 672-683.
• Fisher, M. C., De Hoog, S. and Vanittanakom, N. 2004. A highly discriminatory multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) system for Penicillium marneffei. - Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 515-518.
• Taylor, J. W. and M. C. Fisher. 2003. Fungal multilocus sequence typing - it's not just for bacteria [Review]. Current Opinion in Microbiology 6(4): 351-356.
• Matthew C. Fisher, Bruce Rannala, Vishnu Chaturvedi, and John W. Taylor. 2002. Disease surveillance in recombining pathogens: Multilocus genotypes identify sources of human Coccidioides infections Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99: 9067-9071.
• Matthew C. Fisher, Gina L. Koenig, Thomas J. White and John W. Taylor. 2002. Molecular and phenotypic description of Coccidioides posadasii sp. nov., previously recognized as the non-California population of Coccidioides immitis. Mycologia 94(1): 73-84.
• Matthew C. Fisher, Gina L. Koenig, Thomas J. White, Gioconda San-Blas, Ricardo Negroni, Bodo Wanke, Gutierrez Alvarez and John W. Taylor. 2001. Biogeographic range expansion into South America by Coccidioides immitis mirrors New World patterns of Human migration. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98(8): 4558-4562.
• John W. Taylor, David J. Jacobson, Scott Kroken, Takao Kasuga, David M. Geiser, David S. Hibbett and Matthew C. Fisher. 2000. Phylogenetic species recognition and species concepts in fungi. Fungal Genetics and Biology, Vol. 31(1): pp. 21-32.
• M. C. Fisher, G. Koenig, T. J. White J. W. Taylor. 2000. A test for concordance between the multilocus genealogies of genes and microsatellites in the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 1164-1174.
• Paterson, S., Fisher M. C. and Viney, M. E. 2000. Inferring infection processes of a parasitic nematode using population genetics. Parasitology 120: 185-194.
• Fisher MC, Koenig GL, White TJ, Taylor JW. 2000. Pathogenic clones versus environmentally driven population increase: analysis of an epidemic of the human fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38(2): 807-13.
• Deborah R. Greene, Gina Koenig, Matthew C. Fisher, John W. Taylor. 2000. Soil isolation and molecular identification of Coccidioides immitis. Mycologia: Vol. 92, No. 3, pages 406-410.
• Taylor, J. W., D. J. Jacobson and M. Fisher. 1999. The evolution of asexual fungi: reproduction, speciation and classification. Annual Review of Phytopathology 37:197-246.
• Fisher, M. C., White, T. J. and Taylor, J. W. 1999. Primers for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites in the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis. Molecular Ecology v.8, n.6: 1082-1083.
• Fisher, M. C. and Viney, M. E. 1998. The population genetic structure of the facultatively sexual parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti in wild rats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of  London series B. 265: 703-709.
• Fisher, M. C. and Viney, M. E. 1996. Microsatellites of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti. Molecular and Biochemical  Parasitology.< 80: 221-224.
   

Conference Abstracts

The Fifth NIAID Workshop in Medical Mycology: Epidemiology
Durham, North Carolina. August 13 - 16, 2000
Duke University School of Medicine

Gordon Conference: Cellular and Molecular Mycology
Holderness, New Hampshire. June 18 - 23, 2000
Invited speaker "Population genetics and Biology of Coccidioides immitis." 

IXth International Congress of Mycology
Sydney. August 16 - 20, 1999
Invited speaker: "Population genetics and biology of Coccidioides immitis". view slide show. Poster: Pathogenic clones or environmentally driven population expansion? Molecular and epidemiological analyses of the 1991 - 1994 Californian epidemic of the human fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis. view poster. Funded by the National Institutes of Health. .

American Society for Microbiology
Chicago. May 30 - June 3, 1999
Poster presentation: Pathogenic clones or environmentally driven population expansion? Molecular and epidemiological analyses of the 1991 - 1994 Californian epidemic of the human fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis. Funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Twentieth Fungal Genetics Conference
Asilomar, California. March 18 - 23, 1999
Oral and poster presentations: Determining fungal phylogenies by the use of microsatellite markers.
Matthew Fisher  and John Taylor. Funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Annual Coccidiomycosis Study Group Meeting
Visalia, California. April 5 - 6, 1998
Oral presentation: Molecular epidemiology of the Kern County Coccidioides immitis epidemic.
Matthew Fisher  and John Taylor. Funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The Fourth NIAID workshop in Medical Mycology
Lake Tahoe, California. August 20 - 23, 1997

Ninteenth Fungal Genetics Conference
Asilomar, California. March 18 - 23, 1997

Pacific and Australian Society for Parasitology Meeting
Bali, Indonesia. September 15 - 20, 1996
Oral presentation: Genetic structure of Strongyloides ratti populations; subdivision at the level of host, region or country?
Matthew Fisher and Mark Viney. Funded by Wellcome and Leverhulme trusts

Seminaire Laveran. Fondation Meriéux
Annecy, France. March 27 - 29, 1996
Oral presentation : Population genetics of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti.
Matthew Fisher and Mark Viney. Funded by Fondation Meriéux

British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting
University of Edinburgh, Scotland. April 10 - 12, 1995
Poster presentation: Microsatellites of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti.
Matthew Fisher and Mark Viney.

Supplementary Information

Scoring microsatellites in Cocci.
Global genotypes of Coccidioides isolates.