Web presence of Matthias M. Fischer

PhD student, Blüthgen Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Peer-reviewed publications

• 2020
• A mechanistic model of metabolic symbioses in microbes recapitulates experimental data and identifies a continuum of symbiotic interactions. Fischer MM (2020). Theory in Biosciences, 139 (3), 265-278.
• 2019
• Quantifying the uncertainty of variance partitioning estimates of ecological datasets. Fischer MM (2019). Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 26 (4), 351-366.
• Latitudinal constraints in responsiveness of plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza: The 'sun-worshipper' hypothesis. Veresoglou SD, Chen B, Fischer MM, Helgason T, Mamolos AP, Rillig MC, Roldan A, Johnson D (2019). New Phytologist, 224 (2), 552-556.

Reviewer for

• Ecography (John Wiley & Sons)

Conference presentations

• 2021
• 4th German Mass Cytometry User Forum, January 2021, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum. Computational reconstruction of changes in intracellular signalling networks of colon epithelium cells over the course of differentiation
• 2020
• 13th Berlin Summer Meeting, December 2020, Max Delbrück Center. Mathematical modelling of colon epithelium population dynamics reveals conditions for maintaining tissue homoeostasis

Academic theses

• Population dynamics of tumoural cell populations. PhD thesis, ongoing.
• Evolution and stability of metabolic symbioses. Masters's thesis, Berlin, 2019
• Effects of diversity on co-evolutionary trajectories. Bachelor's thesis, Berlin, 2017

Courses taught as tutor

• Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, Profs. Blüthgen & Herzel, HU Berlin (2021)
• Mathematical Modelling in Quantitative Biology, Profs. Herzel, Blüthgen & Steuer, HU Berlin (2020)

• Bioinformatics for Biologists, Prof. Conrad, FU Berlin (2017-2019)
• Biostatistics, Prof. Tietjen, FU Berlin (2016-2018)
• Evolution and Signal Transduction in Microbiology, Prof. Mutzel, FU Berlin (2018)
• Community Ecology and Biodiversity, Drs. Veresoglou & Hempel, FU Berlin (2017)