Faculty profile

Kaitlin Fisher

Assistant Professor


Contact

331 Shineman
315.312.2775
kaitlin.fisher@oswego.edu

Office hours

Mondays 11:30 am to 1pm 
Thursdays: 10am - 11:30 am

 

Research

Specialty Areas:

  • The metabolic ecology and evolution of yeasts
  • Functional genome evolution
  • Molecular evolution and fitness conflicts

Publications

† Indicates co-first authorship

  • Spurley, W. J., Fisher, K. J. †, Langdon, Q. K., Buh, K. V., Jarzyna, M., Haase, M. A., Sylvester, K., Moriarty, R.V., Rodriguez, D., Sheddan, A., Wright, S., Sorlie, L., Hulfachor, A.B., Opulente, D.A., Hittinger, C. T. (2021). Substrate, temperature, and geographical patterns among nearly 2,000 natural yeast isolates. Yeast. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3679
  • Fisher, K. J., Vignogna, R. C., & Lang, G. I. (2021). Overdominant mutations restrict adaptive loss of heterozygosity at linked loci. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(8) evab181, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab181
  • Peris, D., Alexander, W. G., Fisher, K. J., Moriarty, R. V, Basuino, M. G., Ubbelohde, E. J., Wrobel, R.L., Hittinger, C. T. (2020). Synthetic hybrids of six yeast species. Nature Communications, 11(1), 2085. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15559-4
  • Fisher, K. J., Kryazhimskiy, S., & Lang, G. I. (2019). Detecting genetic interactions using parallel evolution in experimental populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1777). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0237
  • Fisher, K. J. †, Buskirk, S. W., Vignogna, R. C., Marad, D. A., & Lang, G. I. (2018). Adaptive genome duplication affects patterns of molecular evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics, 14(5), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007396
  • Fisher, K. J., & Lang, G. I. (2016). Experimental evolution in fungi: An untapped resource. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 94, 88–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2016.06.007
  • Fisher, K. J., Recupero, D. L., Schrey, A. W., & Draud, M. J. (2015). Molecular Evidence of Long Wavelength Spectral Sensitivity in the Reverse Sexually Dichromatic Convict Cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) . Copeia, 103(3), 546–551. https://doi.org/10.1643/ci-14-088
  • Fisher, K. J., Guilfoyle, K. J., & Hatch, K. A. (2013). Stress Induced by Toe-Clipping in Cane Toads (Rhinella marina). Copeia, 2013(3), 539–542. https://doi.org/10.1643/cp-12-149

Education

Ph.D. Biology, Lehigh University
M.S. & BS. Biology, Long Island University – Post