CURRICULUM VITAE

Associate Professor Dr. rer. nat. Wieland Meyer

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth : 31.10.1962

Place of Birth : Zwickau/German Democratic Republic

Nationality : German

Permanent Residency : Australian Permanent Resident

Work address : Molecular Mycology Research LaboratoryCentre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, ICPMR, Level 3, Room 3114AWestmead HospitalDarcy RoadWestmead, NSW, 2145, AustraliaTel: 61-2 98456895Fax: 61-2-98915317E-mail: w.meyer@usyd.edu.au

Home Address : 1-4 Queens AvenueParramatta, NSW 245, AustraliaTel: 61-2-98905431Mobile: 61-405060409

Webpages : www.mycologylab.orgwww.ima-mycology.org

Languages : German (native speaker)English (fluent)

Marital Status : Defacto

Children : None

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CONTENSE

1. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 3

2. PROFESSIONLA ACTIVITIES 32.1. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 32.2 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 42.3 SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 42.4 MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 42.5 OFFICE BEARER OF SOCIETIES 52.6 EDITORIAL BOARDS 52.7 PEER REVIEW AND SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE INVOLVEMENT 52.7.1 Grant Review Panel Member: 52.7.2 Grant Assessor: 52.7.3 Journal Referee: 62.8 PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING 62.9 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES 62.10 CULTURE COLLECTION CURATION 62.11 PROFESSIONAL WEBPAGES 7

3. RESEARCH 83.1 MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS 83.2 RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS 83.2.1 National Collaborations: 83.2.2 International Collaborations: 83.3 RESEARCH GRANT SUPPORT 103.3.1 Past Research Grant Support: 103.3.2 Current Research Grant Support: 113.3.3 Grants applied for: 12

4. POSTGRADUATE, UNDERGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL 13 TEACHING4.1 TEACHING AT SYDNEY UNIVERSITY 134.2 THESES EXAMINATIONS 134.3 ORGANIZATION OF, AND TEACHING AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL 13 WORKSHOPS4.4 STUDENT SUPERVISION 144.4.1 Summary: 144.4.2 Supervision of Undergraduate Students: 144.4.3 Supervision of Diploma = M.Sc. and Honours Students: 154.4.5 Supervision of M.D. and Ph.D. Students: 164.5 POST-DOC/RESEARCH ASSISTANT SUPERVISION 174.6 VISITING SCIENTIST SUPERVISION 18

5. INVITED PARTICIPATION AT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL 19 SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS6. INVITED LECTURES AT SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES 23

7. PUBLICATIONS 247.1 SUMMARY 247.2 BOOKS 257.3 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 257.4 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL REVIEW ARTICLE 307.5 NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 317.6 INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS 31

8. REFERENCES 32

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1. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS1992 : Ph.D. in Genetics (suma cum laude) (Humboldt University of Berlin,

Germany)

(thesis: "The detection of hypervariable repetitive DNA in fungi by DNA-fingerprinting")

1986 : Diploma = M.Sc. in Biology (suma cum laude) (Humboldt University of Berlin, GDR)

(thesis: "Discrimination of fertile and sterile cytoplasm of Beta vulgaris L. on the basis of genomic DNA preparation")

2. PROFESSIONLA ACTIVITIES2.1 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sept. 2005 – present : Associate Professor (conjoint appointment), Sydney Medical School -

Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Sep. 2004 - July 2005 : Poste rouge Scholarship , Centre National de la Recherche

Scientifique, France for a sabbatical at the Laboratoire "Evolution et

Diversite Biologique" CNRS/Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France "Fungal Population Genetics"

Dec. 1996 – August 2005: Senior Research Fellow (= Senior Lecturer) Department of Medicine,

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, work subject: see major research projects below

April 1996 – present : Senior Hospital Scientist/Chief Scientist Molecular Mycology

Research Laboratory and Head National Australian Molecular Mycology Reference Laboratory, Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, work subject: see major research projects below

July 1995 – March 1996: Senior Scientific Officer/Head Molecular Mycology, Center for

Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia: work subject: “Establishment of a new molecular mycology laboratory at Westmead Hospital”

May 1992 – May 1995 : Research associate/postdoctoral fellow at the Duke University

Medical Center, Department of Microbiology, Durham, NC, USA, work subject: "Epidemiology and phylogeny of pathogenic yeasts", published book (1995): DNA fingerprinting of plants and fungi. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA (ISBN:0-8493-8920-8)

Feb. 1989 – March 1992: Research associate at the IFZ Research and Developing Society Ltd.

Berlin, Germany, working at the HUB, Department of Biology, Institute of Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Berlin, Germany, work subject “Development of DNA-fingerprinting for fungal identification”

Sept. 1986 – Dec.1988: Research associate at the Research Centre of Biotechnology, Berlin, GDR, Department of Gene-technology and Microbiology, member of the basic-working group for a newly planned Center of Genetic Engineering of East-Berlin, GDR, work subject “Vector constructions for yeast transformation”

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2.2 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Sep. 2004 - Aug. 2005 : Sabbatical at Laboratoire "Evolution et Diversite Biologique" CNRS/Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France "Fungal Population Genetics",

Jul. 2001 : Visiting scientist, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Microbiology, Prof. Joseph Heitman, Durham, NC, USA, " Biolistic transformation of Cryptococcus neoformans",

Aug. 1994 : Workshop in Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA

May 1992 – May 1995 : Postdoctoral fellow at the Duke University Medical Center, Department of Microbiology, Laboratory of Prof. T. G. Mitchell, Durham, NC, USA, "Epidemiology and phylogeny of pathogenic yeasts"

May 1991 : Sabbatical at the GEVES, Unité experimentale du Magneraud, Surgérs, France, "DNA-fingerprinting in plants"

Oct. 1989 – Dec. 1989 : Sabbatical at the Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow, USSR, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Yankowsky, "Yeast vector construction"

2.3 SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2005 : Westmead Millennium Foundation Science Price 2005

Sep. 2004- Feb. 2005 : Poste rouge Scholarship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

2001 : Janssen-Cilag/ASM Mycology Award" in recognition of a major contribution to the practice, teaching and advancement of science in the field of mycology

1994 – 1995 : Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (USA) from the German Research Society (DFG), Bonn, Germany,

1981 – 1986 : Humboldt University of Berlin Scholarship to study Biology, Berlin, GDR

2.4 MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2007-present : Member of the ISHAM working group “Standard Operating Practice for DNA Sequence-Based species identification format for Aspergillus, Fusarium and for several genera of Zygomycetes”

2006-present : Member of the ISHAM working group “Genotyping of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii”

2008-present : Member of the ISHAM Working group on "Fungal respiratory infections in Cystic fibrosis"

2006-present : Member of the ISHAM working group on Pseudallescheria / Scedosporium Infections

2004-present : Member of the of Japanese Society for Medical Mycology

2002-present : Member of the British Mycological Society

2002-present : Member of the Mycology Interest Group, Australasian Society for

Infectious Diseases

2000-Present : Head of the South American/Spanish Cryptococcal Study Group

2001-present : Member of the Deutschsprachige Mykologische Gesellschaft

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1998-present : Member of the Australasian Mycological Society

1998-present : Member of the Australian Society for Microbiology

1994-present : Member of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM)

1992-1995 : Member of the International Trichoderma Study Group

2.5 OFFICE BEARER OF SOCIETIES

2010-present : Co-convener of the ISHAM working group on Barcoding Human

Pathogenic Fungi

2010-present : Executive Committee Member - International Mycological Association (IMA)

2009-present : Member of the Council of Heads of Australian Collections of

Microorganisms (CHACM)

2009-present : Convener of the ISHAM working group on Genotyping of

C. neoformans and C. gattii

2008-present : Member of the ISHAM Global Panel of Opinion Leaders

2006-2010 : Vice-President International Mycological Association (IMA)

2005-2006 : Past-President of the Australasian Mycological Society

2002-2005 : President of the Australasian Mycological Society

2002-present : Convener of Australian Society of Microbiology Mycology Special

Interest Group

1998-2002 : Vice-President of the Australasian Mycological Society

2.6 EDITORIAL BOARDS

2010-present : Associate Editor for the journal "IMA Fungus"

2007-present : Associate Editor for the journal “Personia – Molecular Phylogeny and

Evolution of Fungi”

2000-present : Associate Editor for the journal “Australasian Mycologist”

1999-present : Associate Editor for the journal “Medical Mycology”

2.7 PEER REVIEW AND SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE INVOLVEMENT

2.7.1 Grant Review Panel Member:

2006 National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), Canberra, ACT, Australia

2.7.2 Grant Assessor:

2010 project grant assessor for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Paris,France

1996/1997/1999/2001/2002/2003/2004/2006/2008 project grant assessor for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), Canberra, ACT, Australia

2005 project grant assessor for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Tygerberg, South Africa

2004/2005/2006/2008/2009 project grant assessor for the Wellcome Trust, London, UK

1994 project grant assessor for the German Research Society (DFG), Bonn, Germany

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2.7.3 Journal Referee:

For numerous scientific journals, including: Electrophoresis, South African Journal of Botany, Pathology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology, Medical Mycology, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease, Genetics, FEMS Yeast Research, Mycoses, Mycologia, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Medical Microbiology, edc.

2.8 PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING

Bayer Australia

Steve Masselos & Co Solicitors, Sydney, Australia

ENERSOL Australia

2.9 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 18th ISHAM Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2012

Chair of the organizing committee of the joint Australian Society of Microbiology and Australasian Mycological Society conference, Sydney June 2010

Member of the International Advisory Committee for the 17th ISHAM Congress, Tokyo, Japan 2009

Member of the Westmead Millennium Institute Sequencing Committee, Westmead Australia

Member of the Westmead Millennium Institute Science Council, Westmead Australia

Since 2003 Member of the CIDM - Public Health management team at Westmead Hospital

2000-2005 Member of the Joined Westmead Hospital Research Centers and Westmead Millennium Institute Science Council Equipment Committee

Since 1995 Head of the Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital

Since 1995 Head of the National Australian Molecular Mycology Reference Laboratory located at Westmead Hospital

Head of the Latin American/Spanish Cryptococcal Epidemiological Study Group

Chair of the international organizing and the scientific committee for the International Mycology Congress 8 (IMC8) Cairns, Australia 2006

2.10 CULTURE COLLECTION CURATION

- Curator of the Australian Medical Fungal Collection (AMFC) maintained at the University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, containing 7250 cultures (maintained as freeze dried, -80°C glycerol and water cultures), 4250 cultures of yeasts and filamentous fungi have been added and maintained as a result of my field work in 31 countries, specimen data have been curated with the use of the database software BioloMICS (BioAware, Hannut, Belgium)

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2.11 PROFESSIONAL WEBPAGES

Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory (General information about the lab)

http://www.mycologylab.org/

MLST database (Currently active ISHAM MLST typing scheme for Cryptococcus gattii VGII, and in preparation: ISHAM MLST typing scheme for the Cryptococcus neoformans / C. gattii species complex and MLST typing scheme for Scedosporium aurantiacum)

http://mlst.mycologylab.org/

ITS database (Quality controlled ITS sequence reference database for the majority of human pathogenic fungi)

http://www.mycologylab.org/BioloMICSSequences.aspx

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3. RESEARCH3.1 MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

Molecular evolution and phylogeny of fungi, focusing on yeasts and filamentous fungi by using the rDNA gene cluster and independently evolving genes, such as the actin gene, for extensive phylogenetic studies.

Evaluation of different gene trees to generate concurrent or in-concurrent phylogenetic analysis of related fungal species. What is the value of a gene tree compared with a species tree?

Participate in the internationally coordinated phylogenetic research projects: "Tree of Life " and specifically in the new project "Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL)" funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), through adding new sequence-based phylogenetic information on pathogenic fungi. The overall goal of the "Tree of Life" project is to establish multilocus sequencing-based phylogenetic relationships for all living organisms.

Establishment of a reference database of molecular data (sequencing, RFLP, PCR-fingerprinting data) as a foundation for an automated fungal ID system based on molecular characteristics using the computer program BioloMICS (BioAware, Belgium and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands). The overall aim of this development is to establish a molecular based fungal identification system, that will be accessible internationally via the world-wide-web through mirror web sites at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and the CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Evaluation of genes as potential targets for Barcoding (in collaboration with Dr. V. Robert, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Establishment of a quality controlled ITS sequence database for human pathogenic fungi (in collaboration with A.Velegraki, University of Athens, Greece).

Establishing a common database for all Australian Microbial Culture Collections as part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) project, using the BioloMICS software (nationwide collaboration).

Developing molecular methods for the direct identification of human pathogenic fungi from clinical specimen, without prior culturing, using automated DNA extraction, Real Time PCR and Sequencing.

Comparative genomics within the Cryptococcus neoformans complex to provide solutions to critical questions and issues of speciation and evolutionary divergence and to identify open reading frames (ORFs) responsible for the distinct epidemiological and clinical features associated with each of the varieties (in collaboration with J. Kronstad, University of British Columbia, Canada, J. Kwon-Chung, NIH, USA, J. Heitman, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA).

Investigation of the molecular basis of pathogenicity of fungi and the switch from an environmental opportunistic fungus to a primary pathogen, which could be caused by the accumulation of mutations during evolution and/or microevolution and lateral gene transfer.

Development and application of microsatellite based DNA markers for epidemiological and population genetic studies in human pathogenic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans (in collaboration with Y. Mikami, Chiba University, Japan) and Candida albicans.

Global molecular epidemiological and population genetic studies of the C. neoformans species complex though the application of PCR-fingerprinting and newly developed microsatellite based DNA markers (international collaboration).

Development of molecular tools (e.g. isolation of strong promoters, construction of vector systems and developing a transformation system) to study virulence determinants and other genes of biological importance in C. neoformans var. gattii, which have not been available previously.

Developing a Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) systems for Scedosporium species (in collaboration with J. Guaro, University of Reus, Reus, Spain; K. Tintelnot, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany; L. Delhaese, Pasteur Institute in Lille, France) and the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex (global collaborations).

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Molecular investigations of fungal disease outbreaks (e.g. ongoing outbreak of cryptococcosis on Vancouver Island, BC. Canada; ongoing outbreak of cryptococcosis in Australia, outbreak of aspergillosis at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; outbreak of scedosporiosis at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; outbreak of Pneumocystis jirovecii at Westmead Hospital, Sydney Australia).

3.2 RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

3.2.1 National Collaborations:

Medical mycology and molecular fungal identification (NH&MRC project grant funded): A/Prof. David Ellis, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, SA; Dr. Deborah Marriott, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Dr. Ian Arthur, PathCentre, Nedlands, WA; Dr. Christopher Heath, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA; Kerry Weeks, PaLMS, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney; Dr. Alan Woodgyer, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC; Dr. Sharon Chen, Westmead Hospital, Sydney; The Australasian Cryptococcal Study Group

Molecular mycology, phylogeny, taxonomy (NH&MRC project grant funded): Dr. Deidre Carter, Department of Microbiology, University of Sydney, Sydney; Dr. John Pitt & Dr. Alisa Hocking, Food Science Australia, CSIRO, Sydney

Cryptococcosis animal model development (NH&MRC project grant funded): Dr. Richard Malik & Dr. Mark Krockenberger, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney

3.2.2 International Collaborations: Molecular fungal identification (NH&MRC project grant funded): Dr. Vincent Robert, CBS,

Utrecht, The Netherlands (Computer ID of fungi); Karen Rogers, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand (Identification of yeasts); Dinah Parr, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand (Identification of yeasts); Dr. Richard Summerbell, CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Dermatophytes); Jean-Paul Latgé, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France (Aspergillus), Prof. Aristea Velegraki, National Greek University, Athens, Greece

Fungal phylogeny and taxonomy (NH&MRC project grant funded): Prof. Walter Gams, CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Trichoderma, Mortierella); David Yarrow, CBS, Baarn-Delft, The Netherlands (Candida); A/Prof. James Scott, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Penicillium); Dr. Gabi Schönian, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Candida); Prof. Thomas G. Mitchell, Duke & Prof. Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (yeasts); Prof. Don Reynolds, Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA, USA (fungal phylogeny); Prof. John Taylor, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA (fungal phylogeny); Prof. Andre Lachance, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Molecular epidemiology and speciation of Cryptococcus neoformans (NH&MRC project grant funded): Dr. Teun Boekhout, CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands (AFLP studies); Dr. Murray Fyfe, University of British Colombia, Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada; Prof. Aristea Velegraki, National Greek University, Athens, Greece; Prof. Yuzuru Mikami, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; Prof. Kazuko Nishimura, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; Prof. Samaniya Sukroongreung, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Dr. Natalya V. Vasilyeva, Kashkin Institute of Mycology, St. Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Melanie Anne John, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa; Dr. Kathrin Tintelnot, Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany; Dr. Birgit Wellinger, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Vienna, Austria; Dr. Ariya Chindamporn, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Prof. Thomas G. Mitchell, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Prof. Maria Anna Viviani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy; Dr. Márcia Lazéra, HEC-Fiocruz, Rio de Janairo, Brazil; Dr. Bodo Wanke, HEC-Fiocruz, Rio de Janairo, Brazil; Dr. Elizabeth Castaneda, Instituto National De Salud, Bogota, Colombia; Prof. Files Hoosen, Medunsa University, Pretoria, South Africa; Dr. Graciela Davel, Instituto Carlos Malbran, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dr. Maria Jose Mendes-Giannini, Brazil; Dr. Marcia Menhem, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dr. Maria Cristina Diaz, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Dr. Ruben Lopez, University of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico; Dr.

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Beatriz Bustamante, Instituto Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru; Dr. Belinda Calvo, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Dr. Joseph Torres Rodriguez, GREMEC, Barcelona, Spain; Dr. Uma Banerjee, All Indian Institute of medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; Dr. Marlene Henning-Vainstein, Centro de Biotechnigia, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Dr. Blanca Samayoa, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala;

Molecular epidemiology and speciation of Scedosporium spp. (NH&MRC project grant funded): Dr. Laurence Delhaes, Institute Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France; Prof. Josep Guarra, Dr. Felix Gilgado, Dr. Josep Cano, Mycology Unit, Medical School, Rovira I Virgili University, Reus, Spain; Dr. Jean-Philippe Bouchara, University of Angers, Angers, France; Prof. Sybren de Hoog, CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Dr. Kathrin Tintelnot, Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany

Cryptococcal genome sequencing project: Prof. Joseph Heitman, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA (BAC libraries); Dr. June Kwon-Chung, NIH, USA; Prof. Jim Kronstad, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Cryptococcal virulence genes: Dr. June Kwon-Chung, NIH, USA, Prof. John R Perfect, Dr. Gary Cox & Prof. Joseph Heitman, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Population Genetics (CNRS funded): Monique Gardes, CNRS/University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

3.3 RESEARCH GRANT SUPPORT

3.3.1 Past Research Grant Support:

German Research Society (DFG), Germany (Peer-reviewed Project Grant) "Development and application of molecular techniques for the identification of human pathogenic yeasts of the genera Candida and Cryptococcus and phylogenetic analysis of the genus Candida"1994-1995, DM 39.915 (CI: W Meyer)

NH&MRC, Australia (Peer-reviewed New Investigator CARG Project Grant) "The use of molecular data for phylogenetic analysis and identification of pathogenic yeasts." 1996-1998, AUS$ 149.594 (CI: W Meyer)

Westmead Research Foundation, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Start-Up Grant) "Establishment of additional laboratory facility for the Molecular Microbiology and Mycology Group"1996, AUS$ 41.580 (CI's: W Meyer)

Rebecca Cooper Research Foundation, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Grant) "Use of biolistic gun to introduce genes into the human pathogenic fungus, Cryptococcus neoformans"1999, AUS$ 15.000 (CI's: TC Sorrell, W Meyer)

Cecilia Kilkeary Foundation, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Grant) "Sequencing the genome of the basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans"1999-2000, AUS$ 27.500 (CI's: TC Sorrell TC, W Meyer)

Westmead Millennium Foundation, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Bridging Grant) "The use of molecular data for phylogenetic analysis and identification of pathogenic yeasts" 2001-2002, AUS$ 25.000 (CI: W Meyer)

Merck Sharp & Dohme (Non-peer-reviewed Industry Grant) "Establish a reference database of molecular characteristics as a basis for the development of automated fungal identification" 2001, AUS$ 10.000 (CI's: TC Sorrell, W Meyer, D Ellis)

Gilead Sciences, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Industry Grant) "Establish a reference database of molecular characteristics as a basis for the development of automated fungal identification" 2001, AUS$ 10.000 (CI's: TC Sorrell, W Meyer, D Ellis)

NH&MRC, Australia (Peer-reviewed Project Grant) "Genetic and Biochemical Characterization of cryptococcal phospholipases in relation to fungal virulence" 1999-2001, AUS$ 338.608 (CI's: W. Meyer, LC Wright, TC Sorrell, AG Brownlee)

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Colciencias, Colombia (Peer-reviewed Project Grant) "Searching for epidemiological connections among clinical and environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolates in Colombia by means of molecular techniques"2002-2003, Colombian Pesos 155.578.000 (CI's: E. Castañeda, A. Castañeda-Rincon, W. Meyer, A. Restrepo-Moreno)

Genome Canada, Canada (Peer-reviewed Genome Grant) "Comparative and functional genomics of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans" 2002-2004, Canadian $ 1.079.279 (CI's: J. Kronstad, R. Brunham, M. Marra, C. Nelson, J. Isaac-Renton, S. Jones; AI's: TC Sorrell, W. Meyer, D. Carter, D. Ellis, J. Heitman, F. Dietrich)

Gilead Sciences, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Industry Grant) "Molecular identification of pathogenic yeasts"2004, AUS$ 10.000 (CI: W. Meyer)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), France (Peer-reviewed research grant), Title: "Population genetics of Cryptococcus neoformans", 2004-2005, EURO 14,400 (=AUS$24,400) (Poste-rouge W. Meyer: to undertake a research project during my sabbatical

Pfizer Pharmacia, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed industry grant), Title: "National Candidemia study", 2001-2005, AUS$ 140.000 (consultant W. Meyer: to carry out molecular typing)

NH&MRC, Australia, "Phylogeny as a basis for Molecular Identification of pathogenic Fungi", 2005-2007, extended till 2008, AUS$ 434,750 (CI's: W. Meyer, D. Ellis, V. Robert)

Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Australia (Non-peer-reviewed Industry Grant) Title : "Development of a multilocus sequence typing approach for Scedosporium species and its use in a national Scedosporium epidemiology survey ", 2006-2007, AUS$ 7,500 (CI’s : W. Meyer, S. Chen)

University of Sydney Bridging Grant, Australia (Peer-reviewed project grant), Title: "Is there a linkage between genotype and clinical phenotype of pathogenic fungi ? - Global MLST/MLMT typing of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex as a model system.”, 2007, AUS$ 50,000 (CI: W. Meyer)

Westmead Charitable Trust, Research Grant, Australia, “Cryptococcus as a predictive model for mycoses”. 2008, AUS$ 50,000 (CI: W. Meyer)

University of Sydney Bridging Grant, Australia, "The importance of the infecting fungal strain in disease severity: Cryptococcus as a predictive model for mycoses. 2008, AUS$ 50,000 (CI: W. Meyer)

Colciencias, Colombia, "Phenotypic and molecular study of Colombian Cryptococcus gattii serotype B isolates and its relationship with the Vancouver - Canada outbreak isolates.", 2007-2009, US$ 120,628 (CI’s E. Castaneda, J.G. McEwen, W. Meyer, J. Lizarazo, MC Rodriquez)

New South Wales Health Department, Australia, "Stream 3 capacity Building Infrastructure grant to CIDM public health", 2006-2009, AUS$ 1,500,000 (CI’s G.L. Gilbert, D.E. Dwyer, J.I. Iredell, R.C. Russell, W. Meyer, T.C. Sorrell, A. Mindel)

Programa de Incentivo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (PIPDT) Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas (IPEC), Brazil, "Molecular detection of virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii and correlation to the clinical outcome of cryptococcosis – cohort study on HIV negative patients" 2009-2010, US$ 41,975 (CI's B. Wanke, L. Trilles, R. Vasconcelos, R. C. Medeiros Sousa, W. Raimundo dos Santos, L. da Silva Rodrigues, C. de Lima Xavier Nunes, S. Talhari, L. de Oliveira Santos, M. Rodrigues Chang, A. M. Miranda Paniago, R. C. Hahn, W. da Costa, Z. B. V. da Silva Pontes, M. L. Silva-Vergara, M. Martins Nishikawa, G. G. Barbosa, C. de Carvalho Falci Bezerra, R. P. Mendes, K. D. Eulalio, L. M. Soares Martins, M. do Amparo Salmito Cavalcabnti, W. Meyer)

3.3.2 Current Research Grant Support:

New South Wales Health Department, Australia, "Stream 3 capacity Building Infrastructure grant to CIDM public health", 2010-2013, AUS$ 1,750,000 (CI’s G.L. Gilbert, D.E. Dwyer, J.I. Iredell, R.C. Russell, W. Meyer, T.C. Sorrell, A. Mindel)

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Centre for Veterinary Education-University of Sydney, Australia, "MLST typing of veterinary C. gattii VGIII isolates - investigating the population genetic structure of a newly emerging pathogen." 2010, AUS$ 5,000 (CI's W. Meyer, J. Sykes, R. Malik)

Atlas of Living Australia, Australia, "Establishing an integrated database for Australian Microbiological Culture Collections" 2010-2011, AUS$ 54,000 (CI W. Meyer)

DEEDI - QLD Department of Employment Economic Development and Innovation, Australia, "Population genetics of Pichia ohmeri in association with beehive damage in QLD and NSW and its potential as a source of infection for beekeepers" 2010-2011, AUS$ 10,000 (CI's W. Meyer, D. Leemon)

3.3.3 Grants applied for:

Colciencias, Colombia, "Geographic distribution of C. neoformans/C. gattii species complex isolates in Colombia: in search of clones and new exposure sources for humans" 2011-2013 US$293.000 (CI's P. Escandon, E. Castaneda, W. Meyer)

Colciencias, Colombia, "Identification of of fluconazol resistance genes in clinical Cryptococcus neoforman var. grubii isolated from Colombian AIDS patients" 2011-2013, US$ 389,315 (CI's AM Garcia, E. Castaneda, W. Meyer)

NH&MRC, Australia, "DNA Barcoding of human pathogenic fungi as basis for the development of new standardised diagnostic tools" 2012-2014, AUS$ 300,000 (CI's W. Meyer, V. Robert, D. Ellis, S .Chen)

NH&MRC, Australia, "Uncovering the fungal virulence composite to enable a targeted response to human/animal mycoses" 2012-2014, AUS$ 500,000 (CI's W. Meyer, R. Malik, J. Kwon-Chung, H. Nevalainen)

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4. POSTGRADUATE, UNDERGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL TEACHING 4.1 TEACHING AT SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

Lecture in Introductory Mycology University of Technology Sydney (300 students)

Course Coordinator an Lecturer of the Medical Mycology & Parasitology part of the Masters course in Infection and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney (10x 1h lectures, 6x 1h seminars and 6 x 5h practical, autumn semester 2007 (12 students), 2008 (9 students), 2009 (20 students), 2010 (20 students), 2011 (course start in March)

Lectures on molecular identification of pathogenic fungi for biomedical science students, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney (4h/2002, 4h/2003, 30 students)

Lectures on "Introductory Genetic" for biomedical science students, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney (4h/2002, 30 students)

Lectures on "Molecular Epidemiology" to microbiology students, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney (4h/2001, 35 students)

4.2 THESES EXAMINATIONS

three undergraduate project theses from the University of Western Sydney, Australia

one diploma = M.Sc. thesis from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany

three honours theses from the Department of Infectious Diseases, Sydney University, Australia

two M.Sc. thesis from the Department of Medicine, Sydney University, Australia

one M.Sc. thesis from the Medical College of the Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Araqi, Sultanate of Oman

one Ph.D. thesis from the University of Madras, Chennai, India

one Ph.D. thesis from the Department of Microbiology, Sydney University, Australia

one Ph.D. thesis from the Department of Technology at the Technical University of Berlin

one Ph.D. thesis from the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

one Ph.D. thesis from the University of Pretoria, South Africa

4.3 ORGANIZATION OF, AND TEACHING AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Faculty member of "5rd Master Class in Medical Mycology", Hamilton Island, QLD, Australia 27.-29.10.2011 (2x 1h teaching lecture, 150 International and Australian students)

Faculty member of "4rd Master Class in Medical Mycology", Hamilton Island, QLD, Australia 29.-31.10.2009 (1h teaching lecture, 140 International and Australian students)

Co-organizer and faculty of the International Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis workshop, FIOCRUZ, rio de Janeiro, Brazil 30.09.-02.10.2008 (4h teaching lectures)

Faculty member of "3rd Master Class in Medical Mycology", Hamilton Island, QLD, Australia 1.-3.11.2007 (1h teaching lecture, 112 International and Australian students)

Faculty member of the Training Course at NBRC - "Identification and preservation techniques of micro-organisms", NBRL Kazusa, Chiba, Japan 18-21.10.2004 (8h teaching lectures, 7h contacting practicum's, preparation of a Course Manual (30 pages) and Lecture Notes on CD, 26 international students)

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Co-organizer and faculty of the Workshop on "Phenotypic and genotypic fungal characterization and identification techniques", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11.-14.8.2004 (7h teaching lectures, preparation of a Lecture Notes on CD, 58 international students,)

Faculty of the Workshop on "Molecular approaches to fungal identification and epidemiology" (Aproximaciones moleculares en la identificación de los hongos y de su epidemiología), Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 4.8.2004 (6h teaching lectures, preparation of a Course Manual (60 pages), 75 Colombian students)

Faculty member of "Master Class in Medical Mycology", Hamilton Island, QLD, Australia 13.-15.11.2003 (2h teaching lectures, preparation of two publications [54, 57], 60 Australian students)

Co-organizer and faculty member 2nd Workshop on "Taxonomy and Molecular Mycology in Diagnosis, Treatment, Epidemiology and Prevention of Fungal Diseases" National University of Greece, Athens, Greece 4.-8.11.2003 (8h teaching lectures, 18h contacting practicum's, preparation of a Course Manual (150 pages) and Lecture Notes on CD, 35 international students)

Co-organizer and faculty member 1st Workshop on "Modern Taxonomic Tools and Molecular Mycology in Diagnosis, Treatment Epidemiology and Prevention of Fungal Diseases" National University of Greece, Athens, Greece 15.-18.4.2003 (7h teaching lectures, 17h contacting practicum's, preparation of a Course Manual (110 pages), 33 international students)

Co-organizer and faculty member workshop on "Molecular Typing of Fungi" at the 5 th

International Congress of Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis in Adelaide, Australia 2.3.2002 (6h teaching lectures, 35 international students)

Co-organizer and faculty member of the workshop on "Molecular Epidemiology", Instituto National de Salud, Bogota, Colombia 21.-25.5.2000 (10 h teaching lectures, 20 h contacting practicum's, 25 Colombian students)

Faculty member of the workshop on "Current Topics and Molecular Techniques in Medical Mycology", University of Adelaide, Australia 14.-19.2.1999 (15h teaching lectures, 15 h contacting practicum's, preparation of Lecture Notes (25 pages), 60 Australian students)

4.4 STUDENT SUPERVISION

4.4.1 Summary:

- Number of supervised Undergraduate student projects: 13

- Number of supervised Diploma = M.Sc. and Honours Students: 13 (1 current)

- Number of supervised M.D. and Ph.D. Students: 17 (4 current)

- Number of supervised Post-docs/Research Assistants: 18 (3 current)

- Number of supervised Overseas Visiting Students and Scientists: 15

4.4.2 Supervision of Undergraduate Students:

Katharina Ulrich, Undergraduate project thesis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, 2006

Title: "The application of microsatellites for strain typing of cryptococcal isolates"

Crystal Lee, 3rd Year project, University of Sydney, 2002

Title: "The isolation of microsatellite loci from Cryptococcus neoformans"

Madina Omar, 3rd Year project, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000

Title: "Phylogenetic analysis of medical important Candida species using SSU sequence data."

Krishanthi Nallaretuam, 3rd Year project, University of Western Sydney, 2000

Title: "Isolation of microsatellite markers from the genomic library of Cryptococcus neoformans"

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Robert T. Gange, 3rd Year project, University of Western Sydney, 2000

Title: "Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from the environment around Sydney"

Paul Ribas, Undergraduate project thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2000

Title: "Selection of genes, which could be used for phylogenetic analyses among Candida species."

Catherine Hitchcock, Undergraduate project thesis, University of Western Sydney, 1999

Title: " Molecular epidemiology of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from Tamil Nadu, India,"

Vennesa Peich, Undergraduate project thesis, University of Western Sydney, 1998

Title: " The Comparison of two DNA extraction techniques generating low and high molecular weight DNA for PCR-fingerprinting and RAPD analyses of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates"

Cynthia Boyd, Undergraduate project thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 1994-1995

Title: " Species, Genotype Diversities and Similarities of Pathogenic Yeasts Colonizing Women"

Kai Pittman, Undergraduate project thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 1992-1993

Title: "Genotyping of cryptococcal isolates obtained from a major hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina"

Abraham K. Lee, Undergraduate project thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 1993-1994

Title: "Molecular epidemiology of Candida albicans at Duke University Medical Center"

Max L. Kamerman, Undergraduate project thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 1992-1993

Title: "Investigation of a Candida krusei outbreak at Duke University Medical Center via PCR-fingerprinting"

Robert Beach, Undergraduate project thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 1993-1994

Title: "PCR-fingerprinting of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates obtained from HIV positive patients at Duke University Medical Center"

4.4.3 Supervision of Diploma = M.Sc. and Honours Students:

(Main supervisor):

Natalie van de Wiele, B.Sc. Hogeschool, Leiden, The Netherlands (experimental work carried out at University of Sydney), 2009 -present

Title: "Mining microarray data to gain insides into the development of virulence of the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus gattii"

Rehab Alnabhan M.Sc. thesis, University of Sydney, 2010

Title: "Molecular characterization of Japanese and Chinese Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii isolates"

Rosemary Siafakas, B. Sc. Honours thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2002

Title: "Investigating the Origin of Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype AD"

Stuart Jackson, B. Sc. Honours thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2001

Title: "The URA5 Gene of Cryptococcus neoformans: It's use as an auxotrophic selection marker for biolistic transformation and as a target for RFLP typing"

Sarah Kidd, B. Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney, 1999

Title: "Molecular Epidemiology and Characterisation of Molecular types of Cryptococcus neoformans"

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David Wood, B. Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney, 1999

Title: "Characterisation of possible virulence genes from Cryptococcus neoformans previously obtained by differential display."

Mitra Amirmostofian, M.Sc. in Medicine thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1997

Title: "Molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans."

Nicolas G. Latouche, B.Sc. Honours thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1996

Title: "Identification of Candida species and related genera based on genotypic and phenotypic characteristics"

Heide-Marie Daniel, Diploma thesis, Technical University, Berlin, Germany, 1996

Title:" Rekonstruktion phylogenetischer Beziehungen zwischen Hefen mittels DNA-Sequenzanalyse"

(Associated Supervisor):

Abdullah Mohammed Said Al-Hatmi, M.Sc. thesis, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Araqi, Sultanate of Oman (experimental work carried out at University of Sydney from3/2010-4/2010) 2009-2010

Title: "Pathogenic fungi isolated from clinical samples in Oman"

Patricia Escandon, MSc. thesis, Instituto National de Salud, Bogota, 2004-2005

Title: "Characterization of the C. neoformans species complex in Colombia"

Alexandra Castañeda, MSc. thesis, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia, (experimental

work carried out at University of Sydney from 4/2001-11/2001), 2001-2003

Title: Molecular typing of Colombian Cryptococcus isolates"

Alexander Schlick, Diploma thesis, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1992-1993

Title: "Anwendung von Fingerprintingmethoden zur Identifizierung von Patentstämmen der Gattung Trichoderma."

4.4.5 Supervision of M.D. and Ph.D. Students:

(Main Supervisor):

Abdullah Mohammed Said Al-Hatmi, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2011-present

Title: " Association of Scedosporium aurantiacum genotypes and infection in Cystic Fibrosis"

Santra Carolina Firacative Ropero, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2010-present

Title: "Determination of the cryptococcal virulence gene composite"

Mojgan Amin-Nejad, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2008-present

Title: "Molecular characterization of natual hybrid straisn within the Cryptococcus neoformans / C. gattii species complex"

Azian Harun, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2006-present

Title: "Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Approach for Scedosporium Species and its use in a Australian-French Scedosporium Epidemiological Survey"

Popchai Ngamsklurungroj, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2004-2009

Title: "What are the molecular cut off points for species delineation and how can they be used for fungal identification"

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Sarah Kidd, Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2000-2003

Title: "Molecular Epidemiology and Characterization of Genetic Structure to Assess Speciation within the Cryptococcus neoformans complex"

Haydar Karaoglu, Ph.D., University of Sydney, 1999-2005

Title: "Development of a microsatellite based DNA profiling system for Cryptococcus neoformans"

Nicolas G. Latouche, Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1997-2002

Title: "Development of molecular tools fro Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii and their application to characterization of the phospholipase B gene."

Heide-Marie Daniel, Ph.D. thesis, Technical University (experimental work carried out at the

University of Sydney), Berlin, Germany, 1997-2002

Title: "Molecular Phylogeny applied to Candida species and related ascomycetous yeasts"

(Associate Supervisor):

Shilpa Hemant Patel, Ph.D. Thesis University of Sydney, 2011-present

Title: "Studies of filamentous fungi in CF patients"

Ana Lusia Leal, Ph.D. Thesis Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (part of the experimental work carried out at the University of Sydney), 2008-present

Title: "Evaluation of copper homeostasis in Cryptococcus gattii virulence"

Ahmed Hanafy, Ph.D. thesis Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (part of the experimental work carried out at the University of Sydney), 2005-2007

Title: " Identification, Characterization and Application of Simple Sequence Repeats in Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii"

Sirada Kaocharoen, Ph.D. thesis Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (experimental work carried out at the University of Sydney), 2005-present

Title: "Genotyping of Thai isolates of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex"

Luciana Trilles, Ph.D. University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (experimental work carried out at the University of Sydney), 2005-2008

Title: " Molecular typing and genetic analysis of C. neoformans in Brazil"

Leona Therese Campbell, Ph.D. thesis University of Sydney, 2001-2006

Title: "Recombination studies in Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii"

Jacqueline Montanaro, Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1997-2005

Title: "The identification and investigation of virulence factors in Legionella longbeachae"

Katrin Kuhls, Ph.D. thesis, Humboldt University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1992-1997

Title: "Anwendung und Bewertung DNA-analytischer Methoden zur Lösung taxonomisch-phylogenetischer Fragestellungen bei filamentUosen Pilzen am Beispiel der Gattung Trichoderma."

Olaf Meusel, M.D. thesis, Humboldt University at Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1992-1996

Title: "Diferenzierung klinischer Candida albicans Isolate mittels PCR-fingerprinting."

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4.5 POST-DOC/RESEARCH ASSISTANT SUPERVISION

Charlotte de Bien 10/2010-present

Benjamin Kröger 2/2010-1/2011

Dr Fabian Cariconde 11/2008-7/2010

Anne-Marije Minten, 2/2008-6/2008

Dr. Felix Gilgado, 1/2008-3/2009

Dr. Caroline Serena, 1/2008-3/2009

Natalie van de Wiele, 10/2006-8/2008

Dr. Clement Tsui, 2/2006-12/2007

Dr. Alejandro Jover-Botella, 1/2006-7/2006

Dr. Haydar Karaoglu, 9/2004-12/2005

Crystal Lee, 1/2004-1/2005

Eelse Akker, 3/2001-12/2001

Dr. Catriona Halliday, 1/2001-present

Matthew Huynh, 9/2000-2/2005

Krystyna Marszewska, 11/1998-present

Dr. Peter Zuccolotto, 7/1998-12/1999

Dr. Mario Lorenz, 6/1996-4/1998

Dr. Marcus Schütz, 1/1996-6/1996

4.6 VISITING SCIENTIST SUPERVISION

Dr. Wisal Gaafar Abdalla Babiler, Central Veterinary Research Laboratories, Khartoum, Sudan, 11/2007-5/2008

Mauro de Medeiros Muniz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8/2007-9/2007

A/Prof. Wallace Raimundo Araújo dos Santos, Medical Mycology Laboratory-IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5/2007-present

Dr. Laurence Delhase, University of Lille/Institute Pasteur Lille, France, Sabbatical, 6/2004-7/2005

Dr. Rashmi Fotedar, King Khalid University Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 3/2004-8/2004

Prof. Elizabeth Castañeda, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia, Sabbatical, 3/2002

Tommy B. Letsoalo, Medunsa University, Pretoria, South Africa, 9/1999- 1/2000

Karen Roger, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand, 12/1998

Claudia Hardtke, Universität Potsdam, Germany, 11-12/1998

Katharina Methling, Universität Potsdam, Germany, 11-12/1998

Dr. Ricardo Pereira Igreja, Universitario Clementino Fraga Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sabbatical, 10/1997-3/1998

Rian de Pagter, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 10-12/1997

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5. INVITED PARTICIPATION AT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

1) Invited speaker: "Fungal subtyping methods, characteristics, selection criteria and interpretation" 5th Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM 5) Valencia, Spain 2-5.10.2011

2) Invited speaker: "MLST typing scheme for Scedosporium aurantiacum" 2. Meeting of the ECMM/ISHAM working group on Pseudallescheria/Scedosporium infections, Agers, France 1.-2.9.2011

3) Invited speaker: IUMS, Sapporo, Japan, 6.-10.9.20114) Invited speaker: "Global molecular population genetic analysis of the C. neoformans / C. gattii

species complex" 8th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis. Charleston, SC, USA 1.-5.5.2011

5) Invited speaker: " The impact of dual nomenclature on clinical diagnosis" One Fungus=One Name meeting. Amsterdam, The Netherlands 19-20.4.2011

6) Invited speaker: "DNA barcoding of human pathogenic fungi", Fungal barcoding meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16-18.4.2011

7) Invited speaker: "Barcoding of medical fungi using the ITS region" 9th International Mycology Congress, Edinburgh, UK 1.-6.8.2010

8) Chair of the organizing committee, invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Population genetics of the emerging human pathogenic yeasts Candida glabrata and Candida krusei" 2010 Joined annual conference Australian Society for Microbiology and the Australasian Mycological Society, Sydney, Australia 4-8.7.2010

9) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: Pseudallescheria/Scedosporium infections - experimental models and treatment. Frühjahrstagung der section Antimykotische Chemotherapie, Bonn, Germany 7-8.5.2010

10) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Population genetics of the emerging human pathogenic yeasts Candida glabrata and Candida krusei" Yeast Products abd Disscover 2009 (YPD09), Adelaide, Australia 2-4.12.2009

11) Invited speaker: "Barcoding of medical fungi - ITS region and its limitations" Third International barcoding of Life Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 7-13.11.2009,

12) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Sequence based fungal identification - ITS region and beyond" 2009 Annual conference Australian Society for Microbiology, Perth, Australia 6-10.7.2009

13) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Scedosporium aurantiacum - the Australian perspective" First Meeting of the ISHAM Working group on "Fungal respiratory infections in Cystic fibrosis" Angers, France 7-8.6.2009

14) Member of the organizing committee of the 17th Congress of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology 2009 and Chair of an Symposium on “Molecular taxonomy of basidiomycotic fungi”: (ISHAM 2009) Tokyo, Japan 25.5.-29.5.2009

15) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker for 3 talks: "Sequence based fungal identification, databases, intra-species variation and molecular cut-off points"; "Cryptococcal Working Group 1: Genotyping of Cryptococcus neoformans / C. gattii" and "Molecular epidemiology divides Cryptococcus gattii into four major molecular groups and identifies VGII as the ancestral genotype" 17th Congress of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology 2009, Tokyo, Japon 25.5.-29.5.2009

16) Invited speaker: "Does a name matter? - What is the impact of taxonomy into fungal ID and clinical treatment?" Australian Society for infectious Diseases Meeting, Hunter Valley, Australia 25.3.-28.3.2009

17) Co-organizer and Invited speaker: " Molecular Epidemiology of the Cryptococcus species complex" 1st Brazilian Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis Meeting, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 29.09.2008

18) Invited plenary speaker of tow keynote talks: "Cryptococcus species complex - insides in the mergence of a super killer" and "Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogenic fungi" INFOCUS Latin America 2008 - VII forum of fungal infections in clinical practice, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil 25.-26.9.2008

19) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Global molecular epidemiology divides the Cryptococcus species complex into 8 major molecular types and revealed the possible origin of

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the Vancouver Island outbreak." 7th International Conference on Cryptococcus & Cryptococcosis, 2008, Nagasaki, Japan 11-14.9.2008

20) Invited speaker: “MLST typing in Cryptococus neoformans species ” IUMS, XIIth International Congress of Mycology. Istanbul, Turkey, 5.-9.8.2008

21) Invited plenary speaker: "Case Study: Cryptococcus Outbreak on Vancouver Island, Canada – Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII an emerging pathogen in temperate climates? " Emerging Infectious Disease Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia 17.-18.3.2008

22) Invited speaker: "Genetic complexity of C. gattii isolated in S.E. Asia and North America", 3rd Trends in Medical Mycology Conference, Torino, Italy 28-31.10.2007

23) Invited speaker: "Molecular Typing of Australian Scedosporium isolates" 2nd Meeting of the ECMM-ISHAM working group on Pseudoallescheria/Scedosporium infections", Angers, France 7-8.6.2007

24) Invited speaker: "An update on the global molecular epidemiology of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex", 2ed Pan African Medical mycology Society Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8.5.2007

25) Member of the organizing committee and invited speaker: "High virulent strains of Cryptococcus gattii VGII emerged in Latin American to cause a outbreak on Vancouver Island, Canada", XXIII International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology, 1-6.6.2007 Melbourne, Australia

26) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: “Molecular typing of Australian Scedosporium Isolates” Second Meeting of the ECMM-SHHAM working group on Pseudallescheria/Scedosporium infections. 7.-8.6.2007 Angers, France

27) Invited speaker: “Un update on the global molecular epidemiology of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex” 2nd Pan African Medical Mycology Society Conference, 6.8.5.2007 Cape Town, South Africa 2007

28) Invited speaker: “Global molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus gattii VGII isolates traces the origin of the Vancouver Island outbreak to Latin America” 28 th Fungal genetics Conference. 20.-25.3.2007 Assilomar, USA

29) Chair: of the international organizing and the scientific committee for the International Mycology Congress 8 (IMC8) 20.-25.08.2006Cairns, Australia

30) Invited symposium Chair and invited speaker: "A global molecular epidemiological survey shows that the Vancouver Island outbreak strain is closely related to Latin American Cryptococcus gattii VGII isolates" International Mycology Congress 8 (IMC8) 20.-25.08.2006 Cairns, Australia

31) Invited plenary speaker: "Fungal Genetics at the Institute of Genetics of the Faculty of Natural Science at the Humboldt University from the beginning to its global influence" Special Meeting: 60 years progress in genetics and the advancement of medical and biological research at the Humboldt University of Berlin. 10-12.7.2006 Berlin, Germany

32) Invited symposium Chair: 16th ISHAM Congress, 25-29.07.2006 Paris, France33) Invited plenary speaker: "Cryptic speciation within the Cryptococcus neoformans species

complex" Annual Meeting of the Japanese Medical Mycological Society 6/7.10.2005, Chiba, Japan

34) Invited speaker: "Molecular Characterization of Australian Candidemia Isolates" 2005 Annual conference Australian Society for Microbiology, 25-29.09.2005 Canberra, Australia

35) Invited symposium Chair and invited speaker: "Ongoing speciation in the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex" Meeting of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) 23.-28.07.2005, San Francisco, USA

36) Invited speaker: "Molecular characterization of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex" 6th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis, 24-28.06.2005 Boston, USA

37) Chair organizing committee Joint Meeting of the Australasian Mycological Society and the Australian Society for Microbiology, 27/28.9.2004 Sydney, Australia

38) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "C. gattii molecular type VGII - a new emerging pathogen in temporary climates" 11th International Congress on Yeasts Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15-20.8.2004

39) Invited speaker: "Molecular techniques for identification of pathogenic fungi" Australian Society for Antimicrobials, Brighton Le Sands, Australia 26./27.2.2004

40) Invited speaker: " Has Cryptococcus gattii evolved into a more virulent genotype?, Yeast: Products and Discovery Meeting (YPD2004) Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, 3/4.4.2004

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41) Invited speaker: "Global molecular epidemiology of C. neoformans revealing a possible link between the old and the new world. Joint Conference of the Australian Systematic Botany Society & Australasian Mycological Society, Melbourne, Australia 29.9.-3.10.2003

42) Invited speaker: "Speciation on the Cryptococcus neoformans complex", Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand 28.9.-2.10.2003

43) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Molecular Identification of Yeats in the 21. Century" 23rd International Specialized Symposium on Yeasts, Budapest, Hungary 26-29.8.2003

44) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Cryptococcus neoformans as a case for ongoing speciation" ISHAM meeting San Antonio, USA 20.-25.05.2003

45) Invited speaker: "Molecular identification methods in modern mycology" and "Epidemiological applications of molecular laboratory tools", Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia 29.9.-3.10.2002

46) Invited speaker: "Molecular epidemiology of C. neoformans revealing a possible link between the old and the new world", ECMM8 Budapest, Hungary, 25.08.-27.08.2002

47) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Development of a PCR-Fingerprinting database for the identification of Candida species", IUMS Xth International Congress of Mycology, Paris, France 28.07.-1.08.2002

48) Member of the Australian Advisory Committee, invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Molecular fungal identification – a general overview" and "Global molecular epidemiology offers hints towards ongoing speciation within Cryptococcus neoformans", 5th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis, Adelaide, Australia 02.-08.03.2002

49) Invited speaker: "Fungal Virulence Factors" and "Molecular fungal diagnostics in the 21st

century" Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Perth, Australia 30.09.-05.10.200150) Invited symposium chair and invited speaker: "Cryptococcus neoformans: global molecular

epidemiology" 5th Australasian Mycological Society Conference. Cairns, Australia 28.09.200151) Invited speaker: "Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii (serotype B) – The Australian Genome

Project Initiative", 2nd Cryptococcus neoformans genomics meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA 22/23.06.2001

52) Invited speaker: "Molekulare Methoden zur Identifizierung von pathogenen Pilzen". Myc 2000. Berlin, Germany 14.09.-16.09.2000

53) Invited speaker: "A global molecular epidemiological survey of Cryptococcus neoformans", 14th

ISHAM World Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina 08.05.-12.05.200054) Chair of the organizing committee and Symposium chair: "Molecular Mycology" Annual

Meeting of the Australasian Mycological Society, Sydney, Australia 21.08.199955) Member of the Australian Advisory Committee, Symposium chair and invited speaker: "The

anamorph genus Candida in the light of molecular taxonomy" and "Molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans", IX IUMS Congress, Sydney, Australia 16.08-20.08.1999

56) Symposium chair: "Fungal genetics 1" Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Hobart, 27.09.-02.10.1998

57) Invited speaker: "Molecular taxonomy of the imperfect genus Candida and related teleomorphic fungal genera". Australian Society for Microbiology Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 28.09.-03.10.1997

58) Invited speaker: "Interfering phylogeny of pathogenic species of the genus Candida using the actin gene - a marker independently evolving from the rDNA gene complex". 13th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma, Italy, 08.-13.06.1997

59) Invited speaker: "Identification of fungi using DNA- and PCR-fingerprinting – a critical review". 8th International Congress for Culture Collections (ICCC8), Veldhoven, 25.-29.08.1996, The Netherlands

60) Invited speaker: "Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships in Candida and Cryptococcus". Workshop: Trends in the taxonomy of biotechnologically important fungi, TU-Vienna, 30.05.1994, Austria

61) Invited speaker: "Molecular methods for diagnosis, population studies and phylogenetic investigations of pathogenic yeasts (e.g., Cryptococcus and Candida)". Workshop on Cryptococcus neoformans at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, 23.03.1994, Sydney, Australia.

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62) Invited speaker: "Application of PCR Fingerprinting to Population Studies of Pathogenic Fungi". XII Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology,13.03.-18.03.1994, Adelaide, Australia.

63) Invited speaker: "Genomanalyse bei pathogenen Hefen Candida und Cryptococcus". Tagung für Molekularebiologie der Pilze, Berlin, Germany 07.10.-10.10.1993

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6. INVITED LECTURES AT SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES

1) December 2009: Lecture at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany2) November 2008: Lecture at University of Antioquia, Research Corporation for Biological

Investigation Medellin, Colombia3) October 2008: Lecture at Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia4) October 2008: Lecture at FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil5) October 2008: Lecture at University Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil6) September 2008: Lecture at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil7) April 2008: Lecture at Douglass-Hanly-Moir Pathology, Sydney, Australia8) August 2007: Lecture at Westmead Hospital, Australia9) May 2007: Lecture at Westmead Hospital, Australia 10) May 2007: Lecture at the Forest Pathology and Bioinformatics Institute (FABI), University of

Pretoria, South Africa11) September 2006: Lecture at Westmead Hospital, Australia12) July 2006: Lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Genetics, Berlin,

Germany13) October 2005: Lecture at Kanazawa Medical University, Japan14) July 2005: Lecture at INRA, Toulouse, France15) June 2005: Lecture at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA16) March 2005: Lecture at University Lyon1, Lyon France17) March 2005: Lecture at CNRS, Montpelier, France18) November 2004: Lecture University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France19) October 2004: Lecture at Chiba University, Chiba, Japan20) September 2004: Postgraduate student lecture University Paul Sabatier at Moulis Research Field

Station, France21) August 2004: Lecture and study tour to Instituto National De Salud, Bogota, Colombia22) September 2003: Lecture at the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand23) April 2003: Lecture at the University of Athens, Greece24) August 2003: Lecture at the ASM Mycology Interest Group, Sydney, Australia25) September 2002: Lecture at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 26) August 2002: Lecture at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia27) July 2001: Lecture at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA28) April – June 2000: Lecture and study tour though South America as part of the Latin

American/Spanish Cryptococcal Epidemiological Study Group, University of Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instituto Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru, HEC-Fiocruz, Instituto National De Salud, Bogota, Colombia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, University of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico and the Museum for Natural History, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

29) July 1997: Guest Lecturer at the Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy30) March 1995: Lecture at the United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA31) June 1994: Lecture at the University of Columbia, Columbia, SC, USA32) October 1993: Lecture at the CBS, Baarn-Delft, The Netherlands33) October 1993: Lecture at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany34) April 1993: Lecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada35) April 1993: Lecture at the Museum for Natural History, Los Angeles, CA, USA36) November 1992: Lecture at the Instituto Carlos Malbran, Buenos Aires, Argentina37) August 1992: Invited by the National Science Foundation, USA, to attend the Holomorph Conference

in Newport, OR, USA, 04-07.08.1992 38) March 1992: Lecture tour at the University of Lund and the University of Uppsala, Sweden39) May 1991: Lecture at the GEVES, Unité Experimental du Magneraud, Surgéres, France 40) June 1990: Lecture at the Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria41) November 1989: Lecture at the Department of Genetics, Lomonossow University, Moscow, USSR42) October 1989: Lecture at the Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

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7. PUBLICATIONS

7.1 SUMMARY

Total number of publications: 114h-index: 29Total number of citations: 2258Number of citations since 2009: 599Range of citation per publication: 1-188

Journal Number of papers

Impact Factor

Molecular Biology and Evolution 1 9.9PNAS 2 9.4Emerging Infectious Diseases 2 6.8PLoS ONE 3 4.3Journal of Clinical Microbiology 10 4.2Infection and Immunity 1 4.2Pediatrics 1 4.1Clinical Microbiology and Infection 4 4.0Eukaryotic Cell 1 3.8Applied & Environmental Microbiology 2 3.7Electrophoresis 4 3.1Journal of International Food Microbiology 1 3.0Mycological Research 3 2.9Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1 2.8International Journal of Systematic Evolution and Microbiology 1 2.1Bio tech 1 2.1Journal of Veterinary Mycology/Journal of Medical Mycology 16 2.1Memorias do instituto Oswaldo Cruz 2 2.1Journal Veterinary Internal Medicine 1 2.1FEMS yeast Research 7 1.8Current Genetics 3 1.8Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1 1.7Mycopathologia 1 1.7Mycologia 2 1.6Mycoses 1 1.4Journal of Basic Microbiology 1 1.3Molecular Ecology Notes/Resources 1 1.3Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 1 1.2Australian Veterinary Journal 1 1.2Belgian Journal of Botany 1 0.6Microbiology 1 0.6Biomedica 1 0.6mBio 1 New ASM JournalThe Open Applied Informatics Journal 1 -Medical Mycrobiology Letters 1 -Microbiology Australia 4 -The Australian Mycologist/Australasian Mycologist 3 -Australian Biochemist 1 -Problems in Medical Mycology 1 -Mycologia Helvetica 1 -UBA-Tete 1 -Fingerprinting News 1 -

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7.2 BOOKS

1. Meyer W, Pearce C (2006): Proceedings of the 8th International Mycological Congress, Cairns, Australia, 20-25.8.2006, MEDIMOND, Italie (ISBN 88-7587276-7)

2. Weising K, Nybom H, Wolff K & Meyer W (1995): DNA fingerprinting of plants and fungi. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA (ISBN:0-8493-8920-8)

3. Meyer W (1992): Nachweis hypervariabler repetitiver DNA-Sequenzen bei Pilzen mittels DNA-Fingerprinting. Dissertation A, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

7.3 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (IMPACT FACTOR) [CITATIONS]

4. Ong A, Blyth CC, Bency R, Vicaretti M, Harun A, Meyer W, Shingde M, Gilroy N, Chapman C, Chen SCA (submitted): Fatal mycotic aneurysms due to Scedosporium/Pseudallescheria infection. Journal of Clincal Microbiology (impact factor 4.2)

5. Trilles L, Meyer W, Wanke B, Lazera M (submitted): Correlation of antifungal susceptibility and molecular type within the Cryptococcus neoformans/C. gattii species complex. EID (impact factor 6.8)

6. Harun A, Blyth CC, Gilgado F, Middleton P, Chen SCA, Meyer W (2011 in press): Development and validation of a multiplex PCR for the detection of clinically important Scedosporium spp. in respiratory specimens. Journal of Clincal Microbiology (impact factor 4.2) (accepted 4.2.2011)

7. Robert V, Szöke S, Eberhardt U, Cardinali G, Meyer W, Seifert K, Levesques A, Lewis C (2011 in press): The quest for a general and reliable fungal DNA barcode. The Open Applied Informatics Journal. (accepted 25.1.2011)

8. Kronstad JW, D’Souza CA, Taylor G, Warren R, Yuen M, Hu G, Jung WH, Sham A, Kidd SE, Tangen K, Lee N, Zeilmaker T, Sawkins J, McVicker G, Shah S, Gnerre S, Griggs A, Zeng Q, Bartlett K, Li W, Wang X, Heitman J, Stajich JE, Fraser JA, Meyer W, Carter D, Schein J, Krzywinski M, Kwon-Chung KJ, Varma A, Wang J, Brunham R, Fyfe M, Ouellette BFF, Siddiqui A, Marra M, Jones S, Holt R, Birren BW, Galagan JE, Cuomo CA (2011): Genome variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an emerging pathogen of immunocompetent hosts. mBio 2(1) e00342-10

9. Ngamskulrungroj P, Price J, Sorrell T, Perfect JR, Meyer W (2011): Cryptococcus gattii virulence composite: Candidate genes revealed by microarray analysis of high and less virulent Vancouver Island outbreak strains. PLoS ONE 6(1) e16076; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016076 (impact factor 4.4)

10. Carriconde F, Gilgado F, Arthur I, Ellis D, Malik R, van de Wiele N, Robert V, Currie BJ, Meyer W (2011): Clonality and α-a recombination in the Australian Cryptococcus gattii VGII population - an emerging outbreak in Australia. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16936 (impact factor 4.4)

11. Trivedi SR, Sykes JE, Cannon MS, Wisner ER, Meyer W, Sturges BK, Dickinson PJ, Johnson LR (2011 in press): Variation in clinical presentation and epidemiology of cryptococcosis in cats and dogs from California. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (accepted 15.6.2010).

12. Sykes JE, Sturges BK, Cannon MS, Gericota B, Higgins RJ, Trivedi SR, Dickinson PJ, Vernau KM, Meyer W, Wisner ER (2010): Clinical signs, imaging features, neuropathology and outcome in cats and dogs with CNS cryptococcosis from California. J Vet Internal Med. 24: 1427-1438.

13. Harun A, Serena C, Gilgado F, Chen SCA, Meyer W (2010): Scedosporium aurantiacum is as virulent as S. prolificans, and shows strain-specific virulence differences, in a mouse model. Medical Mycology 48 (Suppl.1): S45-S51. (impact factor 2.1)

14. Harun A, Gilgado F, Chen SCA, Meyer W (2010): Abundance of Pseudallescheria/ Scedosporium species in the Australian urban environment suggests a possible source for scedosporiosis including the colonization of airways in cystic fibrosis. Medical Mycology 48 (Suppl.1): S70-S76. (impact factor 2.1) [1]

15. de Medeiros Muniz M, e Silva Tavares PM, Meyer W, Nosanchuk JD, Zancope-Olivera RM (2010): Comparison of different DNA-based methods for molecular typing of Histoplasma capsulatum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76(13): 4438-4447. (impact factor 3.7)

16. Choi YH, Ngamskulrungroj P, Varma A, Sionov E, Hwang SM, Carriconde F, Meyer W, Litvintseva AP, Lee WG, Shin JH, Kim EC, Lee KW, Choi TY, Lee YS, Kwon-Chung KJ (2010)

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Prevalence of the VNIc genotype of Cryptococcus neoformans in non-HIV associated cryptococcosis in the Republic of Korea. FEMS Yeast Research 10: 769-778. (impact factor 1.8)

17. Blyth CC, Middleton, PG, Harun A, Sorrell TC, Meyer W, Chen SCA (2010): Clinical association and prevalence of Scedosporium spp. in Australian cystic fibrosis patients: identification of novel risk factors? Medical Mycology 48 (Suppl.1): S37-S44. (impact factor 2.1) [1]

18. Krockenberger M, Malik R, Nagamskulrungroj P, Trilles L, Escandon P, Dowd S, Allen C, Himmelreich U, Canfield PJ, Sorrell TC, Meyer W (2010) Pathogenesis of pulmonary Cryptococcus gattii infection: A rat model. Mycopathologia 170 (5): 315-330.

19. Ngamskulrungroj P, Serena C, Gilgado F, Malik R, Meyer W (2010): Global VGIIa isolates are of comparable virulence to the major fatal Cryptococcus gattii Vancouver Island outbreak genotype. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 17: 252-258. (impact factor 4.0)

20. Meyer W, Trilles L (2010): Genotyping of the Cryptococcus neoformans/C. gattii species complex. Australian Biochemist 41 (1): 11-15.

21. Blyth CC, Harun A, Middleton PG, Sleiman S, Lee O, Sorrell TC, Meyer W, Chen SCA (2010): Detection of Occult Scedosporium species in respiratory tract specimens from patients with Cystic Fibrosis by use of selective media. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48 (1): 314-316. (impact factor 4.2) [2]

22. Lucas S, da Luz Martins M, Flores O, Meyer W, Spencer-Martins I, Inacio J (2010): Differentiation of Cryptococcus neoformans varieties and Cryptococcus gattii using CAP59-based loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 16:711-714. PubMed PMID: 19694768. (impact factor 4.0)

23. Ngamskulrungroj P, Himmelreich U, Breger JA, Wilson C, Chayakulkeeree M, Krockenberger MB, Malik R, Daniel HM, Toffaletti D, Djordjevic JT, Mylonakis E, Meyer W, Perfect JR. (2009) The trehalose synthesis pathway is an integral part of the virulence composite for Cryptococcus gattii. Infect Immun. 77(10): 4584-4596. PubMed PMID: 19651856. (impact factor 4.2) [3]

24. Kidd SE, Ling LM, Meyer W, Morrissey CO, Chen SCA, Slavin MA (2009): Molecular epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis : lessons learned from an outbreak investigation in an Australian haematology unit. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 30: 1223-1226. (impact factor 2.8)

25. Harun A, Gilgado F, Chen S, Meyer W (2009) : Environmental isolation of Scedosporium species from the greater Sydney region – a link to the emergence of infections in Australia? Microbiology Australia. 30(2): 98-102.

26. Meyer W, Aanensen DM, Boekhout T, Cogliati M, Diaz MR, Esposto MC, Fisher M, Gilgado F, Hagen F, Kaocharoen S, Litvintseva AP, Mitchell TG, Simwami SP, Trilles L, Viviani MA, Kwon-Chung J (2009) : Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Medical Mycology 47(6): 561-570. PubMed PMID: 19462334. (impact factor 2.1) [8]

27. van Hal SJ, Gilgado F, Doyle T, Stark D, Meyer W, Harkness J (2009): The clinical significance and genetic relationships of novel Australian Pneumocystis jirovecii genotypes. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47(6): 1818-1823. Epub 2009 Apr 15. PubMed PMID: 19369437; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2691111. (impact factor 4.2) [8]

28. Ngamskulrungroj P, Gilgado F, Faganello J, Litvintseva AP, Leal AL, Tsui KM, Mitchell TG, Vainstein MH, Meyer W (2009): Genetic diversity of the Cryptococcus species complex suggests that Cryptococcus gattii deserves to have varieties. PLoS ONE 4(6):e5862. PubMed PMID: 19517012; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2690690. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005862 (impact factor 4.4) [4] Erratum. PLoS One. 2009 Jul 15;4(7). doi:10.1371/annotation/3037bb69-1b8e-4d99-b169-afdf4b74ace2. PubMed PMID: 19701466; Erratum. PLoS One. 2009 Jul 15;4(7). doi:10.1371/annotation/348c3375-3918-4e41-bb8c-27aa15d2bdc4. PubMed PMID: 19701467; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2727524. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2727523.

29. Chen S, Marriott D, Playford EG, Nguyen Q, Ellis D, Meyer W, Sorrell TC, Slavin M and the Australian Candidaemia Study (2009): Candidaemia with uncommon Candida species: predisposing factors, outcome, antifungal susceptibility and implications for management. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 15(7):662-669. Epub 2009 Jul 15. PubMed PMID: 19614718. (impact factor 4.0) [6]

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30. Ulrich K, Ngamskulrungroj P, Meyer W (2009): M13 PCR fingerprinting detects genetic variability of Cryptococcus gattii after passage through a rat model of infection. Australasian Mycologist, 28: 20-23.

31. Ngamskulrungroj P, Meyer W (2009): Melanin production at 37°C is linked to the high virulent Cryptococcus gattii Vancouver Island outbreak genotypes VGIIa. Australasian Mycologist, 28: 9-15.

32. Heath CH, Slavin M, Sorrell TC, Handke R, Harun A, Phillips M, Nguyen Q, Delhaes L, Ellis D, Meyer W, Chen SCA on behalf of the Australian Scedosporium (AUSCEDO) Study Group (2009): Population-based aurveillance for scedosporiosis in Australia: clinical epidemiology, disease manifestations and emergence of Scedosporium aurantiacum. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 15(7): 689-693. PubMed PMID: 19549223. (impact factor 4.0) [7]

33. Castañón-Olivares LR, Martínez-Martínez K, Bermúdez-Cruz RM, Martínez-Rivera MA, Arreguín-Espinosa RA, López-Martínez RA, Meyer W, Ruiz-Palacios y Santos GM (2009): Genotyping of Mexican Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii isolates by PCR-fingerprinting. Medical Mycology, 47:713-721. PubMed PMID: 19306218. (impact factor 2.1) [1]

34. Blyth CC, Chen SCA, Slavin MA, Serena C, Nguyen Q, Marriott D, Ellis D, Meyer W, Sorrell TC (2009): Not just little adults: key differences in neonatal, pediatric and adult candidemia. Pediatrics, 123(5): 1360-1368. doi: 10.1080/13693780802559031, PubMed PMID:19403503. (impact factor 4.1) [7]

35. Santos WRA, Meyer W, Wanke B, Costa SPSE, Trilles L, Nascimento JLM, Medeiros, R, Morales BP, Bezerra CCF, Macêdo RCL, Ferreira SO, Barbosa GG, Lazéra MS. (2008): Primary endemic cryptococcosis gattii by molecular type VGII in the state of Pará, Brazil, Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 103(8): 813-818. (impact factor 2.1) [6]

36. Trilles L, Lazéra dos Santos M, Wanke B, Vasconcelo-Oliveira R, Gonçalves-Barbosa G, Penarrieta-Morales B, Meyer W (2008): Regional pattern of the molecular types of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Brazil. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 103(5): 455-520. (impact factor 2.1) [11]

37. Ngamskulrungroj P, Sorrell TC, Chindamporn A, Chaiprasert A, Poonwan N, Meyer W (2008): Association between fertility and molecular sub-type of global isolates of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII. Medical Mycology 46(7): 665-673. (impact factor 2.1) [4]

38. Faganello J, Dutra V, Boldo J, Schrank A, Schrank IA, Meyer W, Vainstein M (2009): Identification of genomic differences between Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii by Representative Difference Analysis. Medical Mycology, 47(6): 584-591. doi: 10.1080/13693780802272148 (impact factor 2.1) [1]

39. Kaocharoen S, Wang B, Tsui KM, Trilles L, Kong F, Meyer W (2008): Rolling circle amplification as a rapid and sensitive method for species identification within the Cryptococcus species complex. Electrophoresis 29: 3183-3191. (impact factor 3.1) [6]

40. Hanafy A, Jover-Botella A, Katsu M, Iida S, Kogure T, Gonoi T, Mikami Y, Meyer W (2008): Multilocus Microsatellite Typing for Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii. Medical Mycology, 46: 685-696. (impact factor 2.1) [6]

41. Karaoglu H, Lee CMY, Carter D, Meyer W (2008): Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for Cryptococcus neoformans. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1136-1138. (impact factor 1.3) [1]

42. Tsui CKM, Daniel HM, Robert V, Meyer W (2008) Reexamining the phylogeny of clinically relevant Candida species and allied genera based on multigene analyses. FEMS yeast research. 8: 651-659. (impact factor 1.8) [11]

43. Delhaes L, Harun A, Chen SCA, Nguyen Q, Slavin M, Heath CH, Maszewska K, Halliday C, Robert V, Sorrell TC, The Australian Scedosporium (AUSCEDO) Study Group & Meyer W (2008): Molecular typing of Australian Scedosporium isolates reveals genetic variability and a substantial number of S. aurantiacum. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(2): 282-290. (impact factor 6.8) [19]

44. Escondón P, Ngamskulrungroj P, Meyer W, Castañeda E (2007): In vitro mating of Colombian isolates of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex. Biomedica 27 (2): 308-314. (impact factor 0.6) [3]

45. Meyer W (2007): The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii VGII as a super killer? Microbiology Australia 28 (2): 70-71.

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46. Ribeiro AM, Rosa e Silva, LK, Schrank IS, Schrank A, Meyer W, Henning Vainstein M (2006): "Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans serotype D from Eucalypts in South Brazil" Medical Mycology, 44:707-713. (impact factor 2.1) [5]

47. Kluger EK, Karaoglu HK, Krockenberger MB, Della Torre PK, Meyer W, Malik R (2006): "Recrudescent cryptococcosis, caused by Cryptococcus gattii (molecular type VGII), over a 13 year period in a Birman cat" Medical Mycology, 44:561-566. (impact factor 2.1)

48. Escandon P, Sanchez A, Martinez M, Meyer W & Castañeda E (2006): "Molecular epidemiology of clinical and environmental isolates of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex reveals a high genetic diversity and the presence of the molecular type VGII mating type a in Colombia" FEMS Yeast Research 6: 625-635. (impact factor 1.8) [230]

49. Campbell LT, Currie BJ. Krockenberger M, Malik R, Meyer W, Heitman J & Carter Dee (2005): "Clonality and recombination in genetically differentiated subgroups of Cryptococcus gattii" Eukaryotic Cell 4(8): 1403-1409. (impact factor 3.8) [35]

50. Karaoglu H, Lee CMY & Meyer W (2005):"Survey of Simple Sequence Repeats in completed Fungal Genomes", Molecular Biology and Evolution, MBE 22(3): 639-649. (impact factor 9.9) [50]

51. Kidd S, Hagen F, Tscharke R, Huynh M, Bartlett K, Fyfe M, MacDougall L, Boekhout T, Kwon-Chung JK & Meyer W (2004) "A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the Cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)", PNAS 107(49): 17258-17263. Evaluated by Faculty 1000: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/ 15572442/evaluation) (impact factor 9.4) [188]

52. Mahoney D, Gams W, Meyer W & Starink M (2004): Umbelopsis dimorpha n. sp., a link between U. vinacea and U. versiformis Mycological Research 108(1): 107-111. (impact factor 2.9)

53. Igreja RP, Lazera M dos S, Wanke B, Galhardo MCG, Kidd S & Meyer W (2004): PCR-fingerprinting of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from AIDS patients of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Medical Mycology 42: 229-238. (impact factor 2.1) [21]

54. Katsu M, Kidd S, Ando A, Moretti-Branchini ML, Mikami Y, Nishimura K & Meyer W (2004): The Internal Transcribed Spacers and 5.8S rRNA gene show extensive diversity among isolates of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex. FEMS Yeast Research 4: 377-388. (impact factor 1.8) [46]

55. Lachance MA, Daniel HM, Meyer W, Prasad GS, Gautam SP & Boundy-Mills K (2003): The D1/D2 domain of the large subunit rDNA of the yeast species Clavspora lusitaniae is unusually polymorphic. FEMS Yeast Research 4 (3): 253-258. (impact factor 1.8) [34]

56. Daniel HM & Meyer W (2003): Evaluation of ribosomal RNA and actin gene sequences for the identification of ascomycetous yeasts. J. International Food Microbiology 86: 61-78. (impact factor 3.0) [18]

57. Casali AK, Goulart L, Rosa e Silva LK, Ribeiro AM, Amaral AA, Alves SH, Schrank A, Meyer W, & Vainstein MH (2003): Molecular typing of clinical and environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolates in the Brazilian State Rio Grande do Sul., FEMS Yeast Research 3 (4): 405-415. (impact factor 1.8) [32]

58. Latouche GN, Huynh M, Sorrell TC & Meyer W (2003): PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the phopholipase B gene (PLB1) for subtyping of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates. App. Environ. Micorbiol.69 (4): 2080-2086. (impact factor 3.7) [29]

59. Meyer W and Gams W (2003): Approaches to the classification of the Mortierella isabellina-group (Mucorales). 2. Delimitation of Umbelopsis based on ITS sequences and RFLP data. Mycological Research 107(3): 339-350. (impact factor 2.9) [11]

60. Meyer W, Castaneda A, Jackson S, Huynh M, Castaneda E and the IberoAmerican Cryptococcal Study Group (2003): Molecular typing of IberoAmerican Cryptococcus neoformans Isolates, Emerging Infect. Dis.: 9(2): 189-195. (impact factor 6.8) [121]

61. Kidd SE, Sorrell TC, Meyer W (2003): A potential environmental association between Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii and insect frass. Medical Mycology 41(2): 171-176. (impact factor 2.1) [12]

62. Meyer W, Vasilyeva N, Yelinov N, Thileva Y, Bogomolova T (2003): DNA analysis in the genome in Cryptococcus neoformans isolated from patients in Russia by PCR-fingerprinting and ARPDF methods. Problems in Medical Mycology 5: 8-11.

63. Malik R, Alderton B, Finlaison D, Krockenberger MB, Karaoglu H, Meyer W, Martin P, France MP, McGill J, Lester SJ, O'Brien CR and Love DN (2002): Cryptococcosis in ferrets: a diverse

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spectrum of clinical disease. Australian Veterinary Journal 80(12): 749-755. (impact factor 1.2) [12]

64. Latouche GN, Sorrell TC, Meyer W (2002): Isolation and characterisation of the phospholipase B gene of C. neoformans var. gattii, FEMS Yeast Research 2: 551-561 (impact factor 1.8) [14]

65. Meyer W (2002): Molecular Identification of Pathogenic Fungi. Microbiology Australia 23(3): 40-41.

66. Carter D and Meyer W (2002): Medical Mycology. Microbiology Australia 23(3): 3.67. Kidd SE, Hitchcock C, Marszewska K, Balakrishnan P, Hunt C, Rajendran P, Usha AR,

Thyagarajan SP, Sorrell TC & Meyer W (2001): Molecular epidemiology of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from Tamil Nadu, India, The Australian Mycologist 2001, 20(3) 105-114. [1]

68. Meyer W, Maszewska K & Sorrell TC (2001): PCR-fingerprinting a convenient molecular tool to distinguish between Candida dubliniensis and Candida albicans. Medical Mycology 39: 185-193. (impact factor 2.1) [26]

69. Daniel HM, Sorrell TC & Meyer W (2001): Partial Sequence Analysis of the Actin Gene and its Potential to study the Phylogeny of Candida Species and their Teleomorphs. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51: 1593-1606. (impact factor 2.1) [20]

70. Boekhout T, Theelen B, Diaz M, Fell JW, Hop WCJ, Abeln EA, Dromer F & Meyer W (2001): Hybrid genotypes in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. Microbiology. 147:891-907. (impact factor 0.6) [138]

71. Ellis D, Marriott D, Hajjeh RA, Warnock D, Meyer W & Barton R (2000): Epidemiology: surveillance of fungal infections. Medical Mycology 38 (Supp. 1): 173-182. (impact factor 2.1) [45]

72. Xu J, Boyd CM, Livingston E, Meyer W, Madden JF & Mitchell TG (1999): Species and Genotype Diversities and Similarities of Pathogenic Yeasts Colonizing Women. J. Clin. Microbiol. 37 (12): 3835-3843. (impact factor 4.2) [46]

73. Montanaro-Punzengruber JC, Hicks L, Meyer W & Gilbert GL (1999): Are Australian Isolates of Legtionella longbeachae A Clonal Population? J. Clin. Microbiol. 37(10): 3249-3254. (impact factor 4.2) [8]

74. Meyer W, Maszewska K, Amirmostofian M, Igreja RP, Hardtke C, Methling K, Viviani MA, Chindamporn A, Sukroongreung S, John, MA, Ellis DH & Sorrell TC (1999): Molecular typing of global isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans by PCR-Fingerprinting and RAPD - A pilot study to standartize techniques on which to base a detailed epidemiological survey. Electrophoresis 20 (8): 1790-1799. (impact factor 3.1) This paper has formed the basis for the establishment on international molecular epidemiological survey of the C. neoformans species complex. [107]

75. Gams W & Meyer W (1998): What exactly is Trichoderma harzianum Rifai? Mycologia 90 (5): 904-915. (impact factor 1.6) [32]

76. Latouche GN, Daniel HM, Lee O, Mitchell TG, Sorrell TC & Meyer W (1997): Comparison of phenotypic with genotypic characteristics for the identification of species of the imperfect genus Candida. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35(12): 3171-3180. (impact factor 4.2) [30]

77. Meyer W, Latouche GN, Daniel HM, Thanos M, Mitchell TG, Yarrow D, Schönian G & Sorrell TC (1997): Identification of pathogenic yeasts of the imperfect genus Candida by PCR-fingerprinting. Electrophoresis 18 (9): 1548-1559. (impact factor 3.1) [37]

78. Kuhls K, Lieckfeldt E, Börner T, Meyer W, Kubicek C P & Samuels G.J. (1997): Revision of Trichoderma sect. Longibrachiatum including related teleomorphs based on analysis of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacersequences. Mycologia 89 (3): 442-460. (impact factor 1.6) [74]

79. Sorrell TC, Chen SCA, Ruma P, Meyer W, Pfeiffer TJ, Ellis DH, Brownlee AG (1996): Concordance of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis and PCR-fingerprinting. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34 (5): 1253-1260. (impact factor 4.2) [71]

80. Thanos M, Schönian G, Meyer W, Schweynoch C, Gräser Y, Mitchell TG, Presber W & Tietz HJ (1996): Rapid identification of different species within the genus Candida by DNA fingerprinting with the polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34 (3): 615-621. (impact factor 4.2) [61]

81. Kuhls K, Lieckfeldt E, Samuels GJ, Kovacs W, Meyer W, Petrini O, Gams W, Börner T & Kubicek K (1996): Molecular evidence that the asexual industrial fungus Trichoderma reesei is a

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clonal derivative of theascomycete Hypocrea jecorina. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93: 7755-7760. (impact factor 9.4) [91]

82. Meyer W & Mitchell TG (1995): PCR fingerprinting in fungi using single primers specific to minisatellites and simple repetitive DNA sequences: strain variation in Cryptococcus neoformans. Electrophoresis 16:1648-1656. (impact factor 3.1) [59]

83. Mitchell TG, Sandin RL, Bowman BH, Meyer W & Merz WG (1994): Molecular Mycology: Probes and Applications of PCR Technology. J. Medical and Veterinary Mycology 32 (Supp.1):351-366. (impact factor 2.1) [36]

84. Schlick A, Kuhls K, Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Börner T & Messner K (1994): Fingerprinting reveals gamma-ray induced mutations in fungi DNA: Implications for identification of patent strains of Trichoderma harzianum . Current Genetics 26: 74 - 78. (impact factor 1.8) [24]

85. Lieckfeldt E, Meyer W, Lieckfeldt D & Börner T (1994): DNA-und PCR- fingerprinting - zwei molekulare Methoden zur Identifizierung und Typisierung von Mikroorganismen. UBA-Tete 29: 477-489.

86. Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Morawetz R, Börner T, Kubicek CP (1994): DNA- Fingerprinting - one of the molecular methods used for the reclassification of the Trichoderma aggregate. In: Generic Concepts in Mycology-A Herbette Symposium in Lausanne 1991, Switzerland. (ed) Clémencon H, Mycologia Helvetica 6(1): 160-171. [1]

87. Gräser Y, Meyer W, Halle E, Presber W & Schönian G (1993): Optimization of a PCR based assay for fingerprinting microorganisms. Medical Microbiology Letters 2: 379 – 385. [13]

88. Lieckfeldt E, Meyer W & Börner T (1993): Rapid identification and differentiation of yeasts by DNA and PCR fingerprinting. J. of Basic Microbiology 33(6): 413 – 426 (impact factor 1.3) [85]

89. Schönian G, Meusel O, Tietz HJ, Meyer W, Gräser Y, Tausch I, Presber W & Mitchell TG (1993): Identification of clinical strains of Candida albicans by DNA fingerprinting with the polymerase chain reaction. Mycoses (30): 171 - 179. (impact factor 1.4) [68]

90. Meyer W, Mitchell TG, Freedman EZ & Vilgalys R (1993): Hybridization probes for conventional DNA fingerprinting can be used as single primers in the PCR to distinguish strains of Cryptococcus neoformans. Journal Clinical Microbiology 30(9):2274 - 2280. (impact factor 4.2) [150]

91. Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Wöstemeyer J, Börner T (1992): DNA fingerprinting for differentiating aggressivity groups of the rape seed pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans. Mycological Research 96(8): 651-657. (impact factor 2.9) [39]

92. Lieckfeldt E, Meyer W, Kuhls K & Börner T (1992): Characterization of filamentous fungi and yeast by DNA fingerprinting and random amplified polymorphic DNA. Belg. Journ. Bot. 125(2): 226-233. (impact factor 0.6) [13]

93. Meyer W, Morawetz R, Börner T, Kubicek CP (1992): The use of DNA- fingerprinting analysis in classification of some species of the Trichoderma aggregate. Current Genetics 21: 27-30. (impact factor 1.8) [43]

94. Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Börner T (1991): DNA-Fingerprinting Charakterisierung, Differenzierung und Identifizierung von Pilzen. BioTech 3: 37-41 (impact factor 2.1)

95. Meyer W, Koch A, Niemann C, Beyermann B, Epplen JT, Börner T (1991): Differentiation of species and strains among filamentous fungi by DNA fingerprinting. Current Genetics 19: 239-242. (impact factor 1.8) [72]

96. Weihe A, Niemann C, Lieckfeldt D, Meyer W, Börner T (1990): An improved hybridisation procedure for DNA-fingerprinting with bacteriophage M13 as a probe. Fingerprint News 2(4): 9-10.

7.4 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL REVIEW ARTICLE (IMPACT FACTOR) [CITATIONS]

97. Trivedi SR, Malik R, Meyer W. Sykes JE (2011, in press): Feline Cryptococcosis - How is recent research improving clinical understanding? Clinical Review - Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 13(3): 163-172. (impact factor 1.7)

98. Balajee SA, Borman AM, Brandt ME, Cano J, Cuenca-Estrella M, Dannaoui E, Guarro J, Haase G, Kibbler CC, Meyer W, O’Donnell K, Petti CA, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, Sutton D, Velegraki A, Wickes BL (2009): Sequence-based identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium and Mucorales in the clinical mycology laboratory: Where are we and where should we go from here? Journal Clinical Microbiology.47(4): 877-884. PubMed PMID: 19073865; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2668331. (impact factor 4.2) [26]

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99. Harun A, Perdomo H, Gilgado F, Chen SCA, Cano J, Guarro J, Meyer W (2009): Genotyping of Scedosporium species: a review of molecular approaches. Review - Medical Mycology, 47(4): 406-414. PubMed PMID: 19085455 (impact factor 2.1) [8]

100. Chen CA, Halliday C, Meyer W (2002): Nucleic-acid based diagnostic tests for invasive fungal infections. Review - Medical Mycology 40(4): 333-358. (impact factor 2.1) [60]

7.5 NON-PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

101. Meyer W (2004): Molecular tools for fungal identification from clinical specimens, Pfizer Spectrum 4: 2-3.

102. Meyer W (2004): "Molecular techniques for the identification of pathogenic fungi" Proceedings of the 2003 Mycology Master Class Hamilton Island - Pfizer, ASM, Melbourne, Australia: 34-37.

103. Daniel H-M. & Meyer W (2002): Molecular phylogeny applied to Candida species and related ascomycetous yeasts (Summary Daniel H-M PhD thesis) Yeast - A Newsletter for persons Interested in Yeast LI(II): 37.

7.6 INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS [CITATIONS]

104. Chen SCA, Ellis D, Sorrell TC, Meyer W (2011 in press): Trichophyton. In: Molecular detection of human pathogens. p. 351-369. Ed. Don Liu. Taylor & Francis

105. Meyer W, Gilgado F, Ngamskulrungroj P, Trilles L, Hagen F, Castaneda E, Boekhout T (2011) : Population genetics of Cryptococcus. p. 327-357. In Heitman J, Kozel T, Kwon-Chung J, Perfect J, Casadevall. Cryptococcus: from human pathogen to model yeast. ASM Press, Washington DC. (ISBN: 978-1-55581-501-1)

106. Malik R, Krockenberger MB, O’Brien CR, Carter D, Meyer W, Canfield PJ (2011): Veterinary Insights into cryptococcosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. p. 489-504. In Heitman J, Kozel T, Kwon-Chung J, Perfect J, Casadevall. Cryptococcus: from human pathogen to model yeast. ASM Press, Washington DC. (ISBN: 978-1-55581-501-1)

107. Carriconde F, Meyer W (2010): Dispersal in fungi. In. Advances in Genetics Research. Volume 3. Gene Flow: Types, Barriers, and Mitigation. p. 291-300. Ed. Kevin V. Urbano. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-61668-543-0

108. Meyer W (2004): "Molecular techniques for the identification of pathogenic fungi" Proceedings of the 2003 Mycology Master Class Hamilton Island - Pfizer, ASM, Melbourne, Australia: 34-37.

109. Meyer W (1996): Identification of fungi using DNA and PCR fingerprinting - a critical review. In: Culture collections to improve the quality of life. eds.: Samson RA, Stalpers JA, van der Mei D & Stouthamer AH, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn-Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 282-289.

110. Meyer W & Mitchell TG (1993): PCR fingerprinting to distinguish species and strains of yeast. In: Molecular Biology of Pathogenic Fungi: A Laboratory Manual; (eds) Maresca B & Kobayashi GS, Telos Press, New York: pp. 293-302.

111. Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Kuhls K, Freedman EZ, Börner T & Mitchell TG (1993): DNA and PCR-fingerprinting in fungi. In: DNA Fingerprinting: State of Science; (eds) Pena SDJ, Charkraborty R, Epplen JT & Jeffreys AJ (1993); Birkhauser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland: 311 – 320. [19]

112. Mitchell TG, Freedman EZ, Meyer W, White TJ & Taylor JW (1993): PCR identification of Cryptococcus neoformans. In: Diagnostic Molecular Microbiology. eds. Persing DH, Tenover FC, Smith TF & White TJ, ASM, Washington, DC, USA; pp: 431-436. (4)

113. Meyer W, Lieckfeldt E, Kayser T, Nürnberg P, Epplen JT,Börner T (1992): Fingerprinting fungal genomes with phage M13 DNA and oligonucleotide probes specific for simple repetitive DNA sequences. BTF10, In: DNA polymorphisms in eukaryotic Genomes. (eds) Kahl G, Appelhaus H, Kömpf J & Driesel AJ, Hüthig Buch Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, Advances in mol. Genetics 5: 241-253. [2]

114. Epplen JT, Ammer H, Epplen C, Kammerbauer C, Mitreiter R, Roewer L, Schwaiger W, Steimle V, Zischler H, Albert E, Andreas A, Beyermann B, Meyer W, Buitkamp J, Nanda I, Schmid M, Nürnberg P, Pöche H, Sprecher W, Scharti M, Weising K, Yassouridis A (1991): Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting Using Simple Repeat Motifs: A Convenient, Ubiquitously Applicable Method to Detect Hybervariability for Multiple Purposes. In: DNA Fingerprinting Approaches and Applications, (eds) Burke T, Dolf G, Jeffreys AJ & Wolff R, Birkhäuser Verlag Basel/Switzerland: 50-69. [81]

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8. REFERENCES

Prof. Thomas BörnerMoleculare GenetikHumboldt University of BerlinChaussestraße 117D-10099 Berlin,Germanye-mail: thomas.boerner@rz.hu-berlin.de

Prof. Thomas G. MitchellDepartment of MicrobiologyP.O. Box 3803Duke University Medical CenterDurham, NC, 27710USAe-mail: tom.mitchell@duke.edu

A/Prof. David EllisHead, Mycology UnitSA Pathology (at Women's and Children's Hospital)72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006 Australiae-mail: david.h.ellis@adelaide.edu.au

Prof. Richard MalikCentre for Veterinary Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006Australiae-mail: richard.malik@sydney.edu.au

Dr. June Kwon-ChungMolecular Microbiology SectionLaboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH,Building 10, Room 1C 304Bethesda, MA,20892USAe-mail: June_Kwon-Chung@nih.gov

A/Prof. Aristea VelegrakiMedical SchoolUniversity of AthensMikras Asias 75, GoudiAthens 11527Greecee-mail: aveleg@med.uoa.gr

Emeritus Prof. Elizabeth CastanedaGrupo de MicrobiologiaInstituto Nacional de SaludAvenida calle 26 Nº 51-60Bogotá D.C. Colombia

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