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I lecture to second year and third year science undergraduates and to 4th year (honours) students.

Subjects taught:

MIC2MI - Introductory Microbiology

MIC3AM - Advanced Microbiology

MICHNA - Honours Microbiology

MICHNB - Honours Microbiology

• Fisher, P.R. (2001). Genetic analysis of phototaxis in Dictyostelium. Chapter 19 in Photomovement. ESP Comprehensive Series in Photosciences Vol 1.pp. 519-559. Edited by D-P. Hader & M. Lebert. Elsevier Science Ltd. Amsterdam. Preprint Version (3 Mbyte pdf file) made available with permission from Elsevier Science Ltd.
• Barth C., Greferath U., Kotsifas M., Tanaka Y., Alexander S., Alexander H. and Fisher P.R. (2001). Transcript mapping and processing of mitochondrial RNA in Dictyostelium discoideum. Current Genetics 39, 355-364. First published On Line 21, June 2001. DOI 10.1007/s002940100196. Full text at Current Genetics.
• Fisher, P.R. (2002). Phototaxis: microbial. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group. London.
• Kotsifas, M., Barth, C., Lay, S.T., de Lozanne, A. & Fisher, P.R. (2002). Chaperonin 60 and mitochondrial disease in Dictyostelium. J. Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 23, 839-852.
• Nebl, T., Kotsifas, M., Schaap, P. & Fisher, P.R. (2002). Multiple pathways connect chemoattractant receptors and Ca2+ channels in Dictyostelium. J. Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 23, 853-865.
• Gilson, P.R., Yu, X-C., Hereld, D, Bareth, C., Savage, A., Kiefel, B., Lay, S., Fisher, P.R., Margolin, W., & Beech, P.L. (2003). Two Dictyostelium orthologs of the prokaryotic cell division protein, FtsZ, localize to mitochondria and are required for the maintenance of normal mitochondrial morphology. Eukaryotic Cell 2, 1315-1326. ( Full text)
• Wilkins, A., Szafranski, K., Fraser, D.J., Bakthavatsalam, D., Muller, R., Fisher, P.R., Glockner, G., Eichinger, L., Noegel, A. & Insall, R.H. (2005). The Dicytostelium genome encodes numerous RasGEFS with multiple biological roles. BMC Genome Biology 6, R68.
• Fisher, P.R. (2005). Microbial development. In Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Vol. 8. pp 289-342. Ed. R.A. Meyers. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. Preprint version.
• Wilczynska, Z., Happle, K., Muller-Taubenberger, A., Schlatterer, C., Malchow, D. & Fisher, P.R. (2005). Release of Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum contributes to Ca2+ signaling in Dictyostelium. Eukaryotic Cell. 4, 1513-1525.
• Fisher, P.R. & Annesley, S.J. (2006). Slug phototaxis, thermotaxis and spontaneous turning behaviour. In "Dictyostelium discoideum Protocols." Methods in Molecular Biology. 346, 137-170. Ed. L Eichinger & F. Rivero. Humana Press. Accompanying directional statistics package for use in the R environment for statistical computing - DirStats
• Fisher, P.R. & Wilczynska, Z. (2006). The ER contribution to cytosolic Ca2+ signals in Dictyostelium depends upon extracellular Ca2+. FEMS Letters 257, 268-277.
• Ahmed A.U., Beech, P.L., Lay, S.T., Gilson, P.R.  & Fisher, P.R. (2006). Import-associated translational inhibition - novel in vivo evidence for cotranslational protein import into Dictyostelium mitochondria. Eukaryotic Cell 5, 1314-1327.
• Bandala-Sanchez, E., Annesley, S.J. and Fisher, P.R. (2006). A phototaxis signalling complex in Dictyostelium discoideum. European Journal of Cell Biology. 85, 1099-1106.
• Bokko, P.B., Francione, L., Bandala-Sanchez, E., Ahmed, A.U., Annesley, S.J., Huang, X., Khurana, T., Kimmel, A.R. & Fisher, P.R. (2007). Diverse Cytopathologies in Mitochondrial Disease Are Caused by AMPK Signalling.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 18, 1874-1886. Published March 1, 2007 as 10.1091/mbc.E06-09-0881 (Copyright American Society for Cell Biology).  (Supplemental videos. Copyright American Society for Cell Biology).
•  Barth, C., Le, P. & Fisher, P.R. (2007). Mitochondrial biology and disease in Dictyostelium. Int. Rev. Cytology 263, 207-252.
• Annesley, S.J.,  Bandala-Sanchez, E., Ahmed, A.U. & Fisher, P.R. (2007). Filamin repeat segments required for photosensory signalling in Dictyostelium discoideum. BMC Cell Biology 8,48 .
• Ludlow, M.J., Traynor, D., Fisher, P.R. & Ennion, S.J. (2008). Purinergic-mediated Ca2+ influx in Dictyostelium discoideum. Cell Calcium. 44, 567-579.
• Francione, L., Smith, P.K., Accari, S.L., Taylor, P.E., Bokko, P.B., Bozzarro, S., Beech, P.L. & Fisher, P.R. (2009). Legionella pneumophila multiplication is enhanced by chronic AMPK signalling in mitochondrially diseased Dictyostelium cells. Disease Models and Mechanisms 2, 479-489. Published on line before print, July 28, 2009, doi:10.1242/dmm.003319
• Ahmed, A.U. & Fisher, P.R. (2009). Import of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins: a cotranslational perspective. International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 273, 49-68.
• Annesley, S.J. & Fisher, P.R. (2009). Dictyostelium discoideum – a model for many reasons. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 329, 73-91.  Published Online 22 April 2009. DOI 10.1007/s11010-009-0111-8.
• Francione, L. & Fisher, P.R. (2010). Cytopathological Mechanisms in Mitochondrial Disease. Current Chemical Biology 4, 32-48. Bentham Science Publishers. (First published on line. Dec. 23rd., 2009).
• Carilla-Latorre, S., Gallardo, M.E., Annesley, S.J.  Calvo-Garrido, J., Graña, O., Accari, S.L., Smith, P.K., Valencia, A., Garesse, R., Fisher, P.R. & Escalante, R. (2010). MidA is a putative mitochondrial methyltransferase required for mitochondrial complex I function. J. Cell Sci. 123, 1674-1683.
• Francione, L.M., Annesley, S.J., Carilla-Latorre, S., Escalante, R. & Fisher, P.R. (2011) The Dictyostelium model for mitochondrial disease. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 22, 120-130. On line Dec 1st, 2010 at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2010.11.004.