Matthew C. Fisher

  • Wellcome Trust Biodiversity Fellow
  • Lecturer in Molecular Epidemiology
  • Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
  • Division of Primary Care & Population Health Sciences, Medicine
  • St Mary's Campus
  • Norfolk Place
  • London, W2 1PG

  • Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 3787
  • Mobile: 07810 423915
  • email: matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk
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.
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Paterson, S., Fisher M. C. and Viney, M. E. 2000. Inferring infection processes of a parasitic nematode using population genetics. Parasitology 120: 185-194.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Fisher, M. C. and Viney, M. E. 1996. Microsatellites of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti. Molecular and Biochemical  Parasitology.< 80: 221-224.

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