Who We Are
Prof. Mat Fisher
Professor of Fungal Disease Epidemiology
My research uses an evolutionary framework to investigate the biological and environmental factors that are driving emerging fungal diseases in both human, wildlife and plant species. Wildlife species play a key role in the emergence of human emerging infectious disease (EID) by providing a 'zoonotic pool' from which previously unknown pathogens emerge. Conversely, human action impacts on patterns of disease by perturbation of natural systems, introduction and spread of pathogenic fungi.
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Dr. Jo Rhodes
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
I am currently an early career research fellow as part of Imperial College’s Antimicrobial Research Collaborative, improving methods of diagnosis of drug resistant A. fumigatus within the CF cohort using nanopore sequencing technology.
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