Kaitlin Fisher

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Fisher, K. J., & Lang, G. I. (2016). Experimental evolution in fungi: An untapped resource. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 94, 88–94.
• 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.
• 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.

Education

Ph.D. Biology, Lehigh University

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